| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Patriot Games | $25,297,379 | $18,511,191 | 73.2% | $6,786,188 | 26.8% | 2,365 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Sister Act | $16,292,301 | $11,237,706 | 69% | $5,054,595 | 31% | 1,742 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Lethal Weapon 3 | $12,552,654 | $9,035,802 | 72% | $3,516,852 | 28% | 2,568 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Far and Away | $7,862,430 | $5,605,630 | 71.3% | $2,256,800 | 28.7% | 1,820 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Encino Man | $6,015,600 | $4,118,282 | 68.5% | $1,897,318 | 31.5% | 2,090 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Alien³ | $5,774,440 | $4,011,555 | 69.5% | $1,762,885 | 30.5% | 2,040 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Class Act | $4,627,308 | $3,421,827 | 74% | $1,205,481 | 26% | 1,148 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Basic Instinct | $2,250,482 | $1,509,950 | 67.1% | $740,532 | 32.9% | 1,313 | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Beauty and the Beast | $1,472,768 | $898,742 | 61% | $574,026 | 39% | 901 | 30 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Beethoven | $1,390,705 | $1,008,940 | 72.6% | $381,765 | 27.4% | 1,140 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Howards End | $1,330,740 | $418,849 | 31.5% | $911,891 | 68.5% | 68 | 13 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 12 | The Player | $1,134,078 | $800,150 | 70.6% | $333,928 | 29.4% | 446 | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Fried Green Tomatoes | - | $921,905 | - | - | - | 878 | 24 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | White Men Can't Jump | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | My Cousin Vinny | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
