| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Basic Instinct | $5,541,216 | $4,012,920 | 72.4% | $1,528,296 | 27.6% | 1,884 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | White Men Can't Jump | $3,484,722 | $2,692,398 | 77.3% | $792,324 | 22.7% | 1,815 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Beethoven | $2,961,215 | $2,440,695 | 82.4% | $520,520 | 17.6% | 1,892 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Player | $2,911,865 | $2,177,801 | 74.8% | $734,064 | 25.2% | 431 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 5 | Wayne's World | $1,976,039 | $1,480,980 | 75% | $495,059 | 25% | 1,236 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Folks! | $1,905,615 | $1,507,898 | 79.1% | $397,717 | 20.9% | 1,402 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | My Cousin Vinny | $1,804,924 | $1,354,199 | 75% | $450,725 | 25% | 930 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Deep Cover | $1,785,340 | $1,328,923 | 74.4% | $456,417 | 25.6% | 902 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Split Second | $1,716,520 | $1,423,670 | 82.9% | $292,850 | 17.1% | 1,080 | 2 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| 10 | City of Joy | $1,608,336 | $1,193,400 | 74.2% | $414,936 | 25.8% | 918 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Babe | $1,576,510 | $1,232,395 | 78.2% | $344,115 | 21.8% | 1,433 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Thunderheart | $1,530,067 | $1,111,110 | 72.6% | $418,957 | 27.4% | 1,001 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Sleepwalkers | $1,516,652 | $1,259,607 | 83% | $257,045 | 17% | 1,291 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | White Sands | $1,464,674 | $1,009,757 | 68.9% | $454,917 | 31.1% | 971 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | CrissCross | $1,392,881 | $1,041,264 | 74.8% | $351,617 | 25.2% | 449 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 16 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | $1,390,005 | $1,114,146 | 80.2% | $275,859 | 19.8% | 1,459 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 17 | Howards End | $512,047 | $372,576 | 72.8% | $139,471 | 27.2% | 25 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 18 | Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue | $448,560 | $323,288 | 72.1% | $125,272 | 27.9% | 266 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 19 | The Playboys | $408,492 | $288,864 | 70.7% | $119,628 | 29.3% | 68 | 3 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 20 | Poison Ivy | $162,700 | $119,840 | 73.7% | $42,860 | 26.3% | 20 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 21 | Hook | $146,674 | $111,870 | 76.3% | $34,804 | 23.7% | 226 | 23 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | One False Move | $59,070 | $44,545 | 75.4% | $14,525 | 24.6% | 5 | 1 | IRS Media | - | false |
| 23 | Incident at Oglala | $28,988 | $19,070 | 65.8% | $9,918 | 34.2% | 3 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | American Dream | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Leaving Normal | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | K2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Turtle Beach | - | $191,657 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
