| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Birdcage | $22,004,742 | $16,034,306 | 72.9% | $5,970,436 | 27.1% | 2,236 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Executive Decision | $16,271,413 | $12,069,780 | 74.2% | $4,201,633 | 25.8% | 2,232 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | $7,244,905 | $5,659,213 | 78.1% | $1,585,692 | 21.9% | 2,129 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Up Close & Personal | $7,003,073 | $5,196,194 | 74.2% | $1,806,879 | 25.8% | 1,635 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Down Periscope | $3,764,019 | $2,861,543 | 76% | $902,476 | 24% | 1,936 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Mr. Holland's Opus | $3,147,778 | $2,228,781 | 70.8% | $918,997 | 29.2% | 1,475 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Broken Arrow | $3,052,969 | $2,197,449 | 72% | $855,520 | 28% | 1,632 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Rumble in the Bronx | $2,574,024 | $1,902,800 | 73.9% | $671,224 | 26.1% | 1,653 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Happy Gilmore | $2,487,805 | $1,851,360 | 74.4% | $636,445 | 25.6% | 1,653 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Ed | $2,436,625 | $1,910,840 | 78.4% | $525,785 | 21.6% | 1,541 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Dead Man Walking | $1,816,174 | $1,211,581 | 66.7% | $604,593 | 33.3% | 766 | 12 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 12 | Fargo | $1,315,379 | $914,202 | 69.5% | $401,177 | 30.5% | 58 | 2 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 13 | City Hall | $531,080 | $403,629 | 76% | $127,451 | 24% | 441 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | Braveheart | $413,551 | $274,094 | 66.3% | $139,457 | 33.7% | 411 | 44 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Toy Story | $218,445 | $156,446 | 71.6% | $61,999 | 28.4% | 323 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Celluloid Closet | $205,556 | $95,047 | 46.2% | $110,509 | 53.8% | 9 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 17 | Land and Freedom | $12,500 | $8,144 | 65.2% | $4,356 | 34.8% | 1 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 18 | Tarantella | $2,268 | $1,403 | 61.9% | $865 | 38.1% | 1 | 1 | Tara Releasing | - | false |
| - | Sense and Sensibility | - | - | - | - | - | 702 | 14 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Babe | - | - | - | - | - | 567 | 33 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Postman | - | - | - | - | - | 347 | 40 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | All Things Fair | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | PFM | - | false |
| - | Two Much | - | $592,871 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | If Lucy Fell | - | $432,178 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Bottle Rocket | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Muppet Treasure Island | - | $1,412,236 | - | - | - | - | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hellraiser: Bloodline | - | $1,611,324 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
