| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Broken Arrow | $16,048,073 | $11,704,778 | 72.9% | $4,343,295 | 27.1% | 2,392 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Muppet Treasure Island | $12,326,408 | $7,906,689 | 64.1% | $4,419,719 | 35.9% | 2,070 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Happy Gilmore | $12,154,210 | $8,514,125 | 70% | $3,640,085 | 30% | 2,022 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | City Hall | $9,466,102 | $6,950,794 | 73.4% | $2,515,308 | 26.6% | 1,815 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Mr. Holland's Opus | $9,093,898 | $6,264,015 | 68.9% | $2,829,883 | 31.1% | 1,629 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Mr. Wrong | $6,867,301 | $5,106,797 | 74.4% | $1,760,504 | 25.6% | 1,487 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Black Sheep | $5,638,495 | $4,097,774 | 72.7% | $1,540,721 | 27.3% | 2,092 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Sense and Sensibility | $4,559,145 | $3,022,623 | 66.3% | $1,536,522 | 33.7% | 1,054 | 10 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 9 | Leaving Las Vegas | $4,439,749 | $3,111,682 | 70.1% | $1,328,067 | 29.9% | 1,310 | 17 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 10 | Dead Man Walking | $4,059,929 | $2,870,407 | 70.7% | $1,189,522 | 29.3% | 816 | 8 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 11 | The Juror | $3,692,410 | $2,716,079 | 73.6% | $976,331 | 26.4% | 1,844 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 12 | Beautiful Girls | $3,076,267 | $2,164,203 | 70.4% | $912,064 | 29.6% | 803 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | Braveheart | $2,206,016 | $1,474,122 | 66.8% | $731,894 | 33.2% | 792 | 40 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Toy Story | $1,838,013 | $1,118,529 | 60.9% | $719,484 | 39.1% | 1,019 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Babe | $1,035,540 | - | - | - | - | 486 | 29 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Postman | $774,104 | - | - | - | - | 147 | 36 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Taxi Driver 1996 Re-release | $157,302 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 18 | Catwalk | $12,162 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Arrow Releasing | - | false |
| 19 | Bottle Rocket | $7,226 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Richard III | - | - | - | - | - | 130 | 8 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | - | - | - | - | - | 36 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Bed of Roses | - | $1,198,686 | - | - | - | - | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Les Misérables | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Grumpier Old Men | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | InPictures | - | false |
| - | The City of Lost Children | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | White Squall | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | 12 Monkeys | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Waiting to Exhale | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Tom and Huck | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
