| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Mask | $37,096,664 | $23,117,068 | 62.3% | $13,979,596 | 37.7% | 2,360 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Forrest Gump | $28,065,540 | $18,200,256 | 64.8% | $9,865,284 | 35.2% | 2,117 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | True Lies | $20,207,945 | $13,741,443 | 68% | $6,466,502 | 32% | 2,510 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | The Client | $18,239,159 | $12,582,854 | 69% | $5,656,305 | 31% | 2,365 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Lion King | $16,620,001 | $9,946,473 | 59.8% | $6,673,528 | 40.2% | 2,577 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | It Could Happen to You | $11,955,873 | $8,112,822 | 67.9% | $3,843,051 | 32.1% | 1,506 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Angels in the Outfield | $8,004,269 | $4,842,706 | 60.5% | $3,161,563 | 39.5% | 1,879 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Speed | $4,021,083 | $2,659,336 | 66.1% | $1,361,747 | 33.9% | 1,437 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Lassie | $2,624,416 | $1,555,070 | 59.2% | $1,069,346 | 40.8% | 1,785 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Black Beauty | $2,273,715 | $1,285,820 | 56.6% | $987,895 | 43.4% | 1,312 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | North | $1,546,484 | $902,912 | 58.4% | $643,572 | 41.6% | 1,481 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold | $1,495,504 | $1,007,798 | 67.4% | $487,706 | 32.6% | 813 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Flintstones | $900,380 | $613,815 | 68.2% | $286,565 | 31.8% | 406 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Barcelona | $177,867 | $102,820 | 57.8% | $75,047 | 42.2% | 4 | 1 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 15 | Eat Drink Man Woman | $39,556 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Shadow | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wolf | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | I Love Trouble | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blown Away | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
