| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ransom | $44,769,760 | $34,216,088 | 76.4% | $10,553,672 | 23.6% | 2,676 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Set It Off | $11,948,627 | $8,812,105 | 73.8% | $3,136,522 | 26.2% | 1,014 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | Romeo + Juliet | $11,501,011 | $9,026,448 | 78.5% | $2,474,563 | 21.5% | 1,950 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Sleepers | $4,909,058 | $3,716,065 | 75.7% | $1,192,993 | 24.3% | 2,080 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | High School High | $3,888,414 | $3,082,069 | 79.3% | $806,345 | 20.7% | 2,146 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | The First Wives Club | $3,050,771 | $2,242,056 | 73.5% | $808,715 | 26.5% | 1,700 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Ghost and the Darkness | $2,284,315 | $1,727,222 | 75.6% | $557,093 | 24.4% | 1,711 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Michael Collins | $1,887,472 | $1,408,519 | 74.6% | $478,953 | 25.4% | 878 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Thinner | $1,712,406 | $1,320,333 | 77.1% | $392,073 | 22.9% | 1,807 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Independence Day | $1,346,555 | $978,214 | 72.6% | $368,341 | 27.4% | 661 | 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | The Rock | $43,482 | $32,371 | 74.4% | $11,111 | 25.6% | 55 | 23 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Breathing Room | $9,596 | $7,750 | 80.8% | $1,846 | 19.2% | 1 | 1 | Arrow Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | Mission: Impossible | $4,255 | $3,234 | 76% | $1,021 | 24% | 6 | 26 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Blue Juice | $517 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Filmopolis Pictures | - | false |
| - | Twelfth Night | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 3 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Mother Night | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 2 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Bad Moon | - | $112,397 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Larger Than Life | - | $2,017,559 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Dear God | - | $1,508,629 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Normal Life | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | American Buffalo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Associate | - | $1,403,584 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Fly Away Home | - | $1,014,269 | - | - | - | - | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
