| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Lethal Weapon 3 | $20,026,272 | $15,420,806 | 77% | $4,605,466 | 23% | 2,510 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Sister Act | $16,767,658 | $11,894,587 | 70.9% | $4,873,071 | 29.1% | 1,430 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Alien³ | $11,254,910 | $8,366,727 | 74.3% | $2,888,183 | 25.7% | 2,227 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Far and Away | $10,164,905 | $7,513,885 | 73.9% | $2,651,020 | 26.1% | 1,597 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Encino Man | $8,599,760 | $6,414,195 | 74.6% | $2,185,565 | 25.4% | 2,071 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Basic Instinct | $3,302,508 | $2,345,436 | 71% | $957,072 | 29% | 1,524 | 11 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Beauty and the Beast | $1,841,448 | $1,271,804 | 69.1% | $569,644 | 30.9% | 1,003 | 29 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Beethoven | $1,791,540 | $1,356,135 | 75.7% | $435,405 | 24.3% | 1,420 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Player | $1,622,213 | $1,192,505 | 73.5% | $429,708 | 26.5% | 452 | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | White Men Can't Jump | $1,312,200 | $945,898 | 72.1% | $366,302 | 27.9% | 1,132 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | My Cousin Vinny | $1,035,483 | $747,875 | 72.2% | $287,608 | 27.8% | 742 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Wayne's World | $941,425 | $680,830 | 72.3% | $260,595 | 27.7% | 786 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | $808,653 | $609,030 | 75.3% | $199,623 | 24.7% | 960 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Howards End | $699,448 | $511,785 | 73.2% | $187,663 | 26.8% | 67 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 15 | The Adjuster | $15,636 | $10,686 | 68.3% | $4,950 | 31.7% | 1 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | A Cry in the Wild | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | Frankenhooker | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Europa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Rubin and Ed | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | IRS Media | - | false |
| - | Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Hook | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
