| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | $10,737,119 | $8,212,477 | 76.5% | $2,524,642 | 23.5% | 1,654 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Beverly Hillbillies | $6,196,531 | $4,923,073 | 79.4% | $1,273,458 | 20.6% | 2,148 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Demolition Man | $5,638,405 | $4,202,828 | 74.5% | $1,435,577 | 25.5% | 2,141 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Cool Runnings | $4,847,683 | $3,694,665 | 76.2% | $1,153,018 | 23.8% | 1,832 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Rudy | $4,692,395 | $3,603,900 | 76.8% | $1,088,495 | 23.2% | 1,465 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Fatal Instinct | $4,691,263 | $3,502,569 | 74.7% | $1,188,694 | 25.3% | 1,886 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Malice | $3,857,183 | $2,904,181 | 75.3% | $953,002 | 24.7% | 1,519 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Joy Luck Club | $2,900,443 | $2,048,557 | 70.6% | $851,886 | 29.4% | 600 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Age of Innocence | $2,033,530 | $1,553,481 | 76.4% | $480,049 | 23.6% | 839 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Judgment Night | $2,024,925 | $1,410,765 | 69.7% | $614,160 | 30.3% | 1,350 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Good Son | $1,643,234 | $1,196,724 | 72.8% | $446,510 | 27.2% | 1,214 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Fugitive | $1,517,088 | $1,122,563 | 74% | $394,525 | 26% | 1,033 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Fearless | $1,408,287 | $1,010,024 | 71.7% | $398,263 | 28.3% | 124 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | A Bronx Tale | $1,398,064 | $1,005,060 | 71.9% | $393,004 | 28.1% | 514 | 5 | Savoy Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Gettysburg | $1,302,790 | $940,921 | 72.2% | $361,869 | 27.8% | 239 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | Jurassic Park | $653,295 | $500,565 | 76.6% | $152,730 | 23.4% | 449 | 21 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Deception | $219,471 | $162,274 | 73.9% | $57,197 | 26.1% | 67 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 18 | The War Room | $6,182 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Baraka | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Twenty Bucks | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| - | Return of the Living Dead III | - | $14,810 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
