| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Specialist | $19,765,525 | $14,317,765 | 72.4% | $5,447,760 | 27.6% | 2,522 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | The River Wild | $9,254,045 | $7,109,795 | 76.8% | $2,144,250 | 23.2% | 2,116 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Only You | $7,442,943 | $5,711,738 | 76.7% | $1,731,205 | 23.3% | 1,600 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Jason's Lyric | $4,548,760 | $3,547,308 | 78% | $1,001,452 | 22% | 790 | 2 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 5 | Forrest Gump | $4,372,908 | $3,950,473 | 90.3% | $422,435 | 9.7% | 2,324 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Timecop | $4,293,900 | $3,229,150 | 75.2% | $1,064,750 | 24.8% | 2,227 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Quiz Show | $4,183,135 | $3,160,749 | 75.6% | $1,022,386 | 24.4% | 822 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Shawshank Redemption | $2,835,581 | $1,968,808 | 69.4% | $866,773 | 30.6% | 328 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Ed Wood | $2,627,750 | $1,903,768 | 72.4% | $723,982 | 27.6% | 623 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Terminal Velocity | $2,139,952 | $1,575,776 | 73.6% | $564,176 | 26.4% | 1,681 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Clear and Present Danger | $1,516,963 | $1,151,879 | 75.9% | $365,084 | 24.1% | 1,145 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Jurassic Park | $324,995 | $283,240 | 87.2% | $41,755 | 12.8% | 154 | 70 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Flintstones | $190,045 | $151,240 | 79.6% | $38,805 | 20.4% | 199 | 20 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Browning Version | $10,909 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Little Rascals | - | $1,017,645 | - | - | - | 1,060 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Client | - | $1,037,464 | - | - | - | 909 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Nostradamus | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Natural Born Killers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Scout | - | $567,662 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | True Lies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Corrina, Corrina | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
