| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Sleepers | $12,786,979 | $9,605,059 | 75.1% | $3,181,920 | 24.9% | 2,080 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | High School High | $7,601,265 | $6,311,786 | 83% | $1,289,479 | 17% | 2,146 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Thinner | $7,294,848 | $5,679,046 | 77.8% | $1,615,802 | 22.2% | 2,009 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The First Wives Club | $5,866,422 | $4,380,111 | 74.7% | $1,486,311 | 25.3% | 2,406 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Ghost and the Darkness | $5,717,143 | $4,390,078 | 76.8% | $1,327,065 | 23.2% | 2,202 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Associate | $5,545,819 | $4,261,304 | 76.8% | $1,284,515 | 23.2% | 1,781 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | $4,908,177 | $3,673,909 | 74.8% | $1,234,268 | 25.2% | 2,302 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Michael Collins | $3,326,145 | $2,409,761 | 72.4% | $916,384 | 27.6% | 748 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | That Thing You Do! | $2,478,440 | $2,050,606 | 82.7% | $427,834 | 17.3% | 1,586 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday | $2,056,364 | $1,538,519 | 74.8% | $517,845 | 25.2% | 807 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 11 | Independence Day | $1,614,149 | $1,217,504 | 75.4% | $396,645 | 24.6% | 1,125 | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Rock | $91,677 | $66,101 | 72.1% | $25,576 | 27.9% | 113 | 21 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Twelfth Night | $48,127 | $33,451 | 69.5% | $14,676 | 30.5% | 5 | 1 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 14 | Palookaville | $33,001 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 15 | When We Were Kings | $25,682 | $12,479 | 48.6% | $13,203 | 51.4% | 2 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 16 | Mission: Impossible | $24,007 | $18,607 | 77.5% | $5,400 | 22.5% | 40 | 24 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Sunchaser | $21,508 | $13,845 | 64.4% | $7,663 | 35.6% | 23 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Normal Life | $4,634 | $3,315 | 71.5% | $1,319 | 28.5% | 1 | 1 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Surviving Picasso | - | - | - | - | - | 49 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Grass Harp | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | 3 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Frank & Jesse | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Chamber | - | $1,269,070 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Freeway | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| - | Get on the Bus | - | $1,117,745 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | D3: The Mighty Ducks | - | $1,655,851 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Girls Town | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | October Films | - | false |
