| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Quick and the Dead | $8,433,714 | $6,515,861 | 77.3% | $1,917,853 | 22.7% | 2,158 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 2 | Billy Madison | $8,207,155 | $6,639,080 | 80.9% | $1,568,075 | 19.1% | 1,834 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Legends of the Fall | $5,867,849 | $4,462,390 | 76% | $1,405,459 | 24% | 2,038 | 8 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Boys on the Side | $5,798,766 | $4,332,880 | 74.7% | $1,465,886 | 25.3% | 1,444 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Nobody's Fool | $3,236,045 | $2,369,790 | 73.2% | $866,255 | 26.8% | 1,007 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dumb and Dumber | $3,102,657 | $2,540,008 | 81.9% | $562,649 | 18.1% | 1,779 | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | In the Mouth of Madness | $2,673,332 | $2,032,687 | 76% | $640,645 | 24% | 1,531 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Murder in the First | $2,016,397 | $1,464,223 | 72.6% | $552,174 | 27.4% | 1,041 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Pulp Fiction | $1,927,620 | $1,209,812 | 62.8% | $717,808 | 37.2% | 884 | 18 | Miramax | - | false |
| 10 | Highlander: The Final Dimension | $1,830,929 | $1,370,977 | 74.9% | $459,952 | 25.1% | 1,483 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| 11 | The Jerky Boys | $1,815,973 | $1,416,530 | 78% | $399,443 | 22% | 1,513 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Higher Learning | $1,731,911 | $1,363,630 | 78.7% | $368,281 | 21.3% | 1,080 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | Little Women | $1,676,626 | $1,237,280 | 73.8% | $439,346 | 26.2% | 1,102 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | Before Sunrise | $1,058,631 | $770,600 | 72.8% | $288,031 | 27.2% | 474 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 15 | Street Fighter | $523,560 | $395,645 | 75.6% | $127,915 | 24.4% | 467 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Shallow Grave | $135,946 | $105,614 | 77.7% | $30,332 | 22.3% | 6 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 17 | Quiz Show | $107,202 | $663 | 0.6% | $106,539 | 99.4% | 5 | 22 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hoop Dreams | - | - | - | - | - | 262 | 18 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | The Last Seduction | - | - | - | - | - | 151 | 17 | October Films | - | false |
| - | The Shawshank Redemption | - | $25,751 | - | - | - | 22 | 21 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | To Live | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Miami Rhapsody | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Forrest Gump | - | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Houseguest | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Disclosure | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Lion King | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Man of No Importance | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
