| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Sleepers | $16,746,377 | $12,305,745 | 73.5% | $4,440,632 | 26.5% | 1,915 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | The Ghost and the Darkness | $9,668,654 | $7,507,928 | 77.6% | $2,160,726 | 22.4% | 2,154 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | $9,037,429 | $6,541,965 | 72.4% | $2,495,464 | 27.6% | 2,404 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 4 | The First Wives Club | $8,895,342 | $6,737,593 | 75.7% | $2,157,749 | 24.3% | 2,406 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | That Thing You Do! | $4,615,928 | $3,866,648 | 83.8% | $749,280 | 16.2% | 1,879 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | D3: The Mighty Ducks | $4,116,698 | $3,627,626 | 88.1% | $489,072 | 11.9% | 2,060 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Chamber | $3,848,745 | $3,027,685 | 78.7% | $821,060 | 21.3% | 2,032 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Get on the Bus | $2,752,241 | $2,156,409 | 78.4% | $595,832 | 21.6% | 1,207 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 9 | Independence Day | $1,794,586 | $1,344,607 | 74.9% | $449,979 | 25.1% | 1,310 | 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Rock | $179,904 | $133,536 | 74.2% | $46,368 | 25.8% | 185 | 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | $112,441 | $77,725 | 69.1% | $34,716 | 30.9% | 5 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 12 | Mission: Impossible | $64,195 | $50,107 | 78% | $14,088 | 22% | 87 | 23 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Jude | $47,795 | $31,850 | 66.6% | $15,945 | 33.4% | 6 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Looking for Richard | - | - | - | - | - | 81 | 2 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| - | Michael Collins | - | $187,692 | - | - | - | 10 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Freeway | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 9 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| - | Small Wonders | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | I Shot a Man in Vegas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Arrow Releasing | - | false |
| - | Vertical Reality | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Warren Miller Entertainment | - | false |
| - | The Glimmer Man | - | $2,141,621 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Not Bad for a Girl | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Horizon Unlimited | - | false |
| - | Bound | - | $364,469 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Giant 1996 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Love Is All There Is | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
