| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | A Time to Kill | $20,197,020 | $13,262,934 | 65.7% | $6,934,086 | 34.3% | 2,253 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Independence Day | $17,197,580 | $10,996,314 | 63.9% | $6,201,266 | 36.1% | 2,788 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Matilda | $13,921,188 | $8,208,609 | 59% | $5,712,579 | 41% | 1,975 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Chain Reaction | $11,199,515 | $7,545,944 | 67.4% | $3,653,571 | 32.6% | 2,255 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Phenomenon | $8,105,006 | $5,084,153 | 62.7% | $3,020,853 | 37.3% | 2,139 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Kingpin | $7,256,286 | $4,502,369 | 62% | $2,753,917 | 38% | 1,975 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Courage Under Fire | $6,672,613 | $4,455,042 | 66.8% | $2,217,571 | 33.2% | 1,816 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | The Nutty Professor | $6,313,500 | $4,170,760 | 66.1% | $2,142,740 | 33.9% | 2,075 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Supercop | $4,016,155 | $2,522,396 | 62.8% | $1,493,759 | 37.2% | 1,469 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 10 | Trainspotting | $2,407,128 | $1,402,441 | 58.3% | $1,004,687 | 41.7% | 191 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| 11 | The Rock | $1,711,808 | $1,055,986 | 61.7% | $655,822 | 38.3% | 721 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Cable Guy | $1,126,412 | $714,069 | 63.4% | $412,343 | 36.6% | 736 | 8 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | Mission: Impossible | $639,257 | $416,064 | 65.1% | $223,193 | 34.9% | 410 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Emma | $427,377 | $240,649 | 56.3% | $186,728 | 43.7% | 9 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Stonewall | $126,693 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 2 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
| 16 | Toy Story | $79,646 | $47,271 | 59.4% | $32,375 | 40.6% | 152 | 38 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Flirt | $6,923 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | Cyclo | - | $38,109 | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | Phat Beach | - | $658,614 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Adventures of Pinocchio | - | $1,929,466 | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Twister | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Joe's Apartment | - | $769,011 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Harriet the Spy | - | $1,026,278 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Kazaam | - | $1,188,786 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Fled | - | $1,424,452 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Heavy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | Multiplicity | - | $1,927,267 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Frighteners | - | $1,479,080 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
