| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Independence Day | $79,196,019 | $50,228,264 | 63.4% | $28,967,755 | 36.6% | 2,882 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | The Nutty Professor | $25,687,080 | $17,488,840 | 68.1% | $8,198,240 | 31.9% | 2,138 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Phenomenon | $24,999,981 | $16,158,901 | 64.6% | $8,841,080 | 35.4% | 1,637 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | $14,345,531 | $8,892,937 | 62% | $5,452,594 | 38% | 2,835 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Eraser | $12,481,405 | $8,790,009 | 70.4% | $3,691,396 | 29.6% | 2,556 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | The Rock | $9,132,598 | $6,385,082 | 69.9% | $2,747,516 | 30.1% | 2,137 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Striptease | $7,243,344 | $4,816,615 | 66.5% | $2,426,729 | 33.5% | 1,979 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Twister | $4,151,426 | $2,740,227 | 66% | $1,411,199 | 34% | 1,877 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Mission: Impossible | $3,513,736 | $2,344,369 | 66.7% | $1,169,367 | 33.3% | 1,747 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Harriet the Spy | $2,978,668 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Cable Guy | $2,607,537 | $1,704,590 | 65.4% | $902,947 | 34.6% | 2,042 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 12 | Lone Star | $724,083 | $600,247 | 82.9% | $123,836 | 17.1% | 77 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 13 | Toy Story | $305,023 | $186,018 | 61% | $119,005 | 39% | 309 | 34 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Stealing Beauty | - | - | - | - | - | 195 | 4 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| - | DragonHeart | - | $869,220 | - | - | - | - | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
