| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Trek: First Contact | $43,049,672 | $30,716,131 | 71.4% | $12,333,541 | 28.6% | 2,812 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Space Jam | $21,830,121 | $16,216,845 | 74.3% | $5,613,276 | 25.7% | 2,650 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Ransom | $20,049,529 | $13,185,106 | 65.8% | $6,864,423 | 34.2% | 2,768 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Jingle All the Way | $18,179,100 | $12,112,267 | 66.6% | $6,066,833 | 33.4% | 2,401 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | 101 Dalmatians | $11,569,454 | - | - | - | - | 2,794 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Mirror Has Two Faces | $11,403,311 | $8,012,555 | 70.3% | $3,390,756 | 29.7% | 2,489 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 7 | Set It Off | $4,997,812 | $3,322,947 | 66.5% | $1,674,865 | 33.5% | 1,016 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Romeo + Juliet | $4,777,085 | $3,195,515 | 66.9% | $1,581,570 | 33.1% | 1,808 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The English Patient | $4,451,909 | $2,713,093 | 60.9% | $1,738,816 | 39.1% | 268 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 10 | Sleepers | $2,232,119 | $1,369,471 | 61.4% | $862,648 | 38.6% | 1,582 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | The First Wives Club | $991,860 | $723,675 | 73% | $268,185 | 27% | 990 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Independence Day | $600,215 | $404,893 | 67.5% | $195,322 | 32.5% | 427 | 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | The Crucible | $38,615 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Mission: Impossible | $23,766 | $16,803 | 70.7% | $6,963 | 29.3% | 37 | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The War at Home | $22,207 | $15,040 | 67.7% | $7,167 | 32.3% | 4 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Rock | $16,180 | $11,382 | 70.4% | $4,798 | 29.6% | 27 | 25 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Sling Blade | $8,505 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Miramax | - | false |
| 18 | Zero Kelvin | $961 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Kino International | - | false |
| - | Palookaville | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 5 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Funeral | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Paraíso Perdido | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Creative Thinking International Ltd. | - | false |
| - | Jude | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | The Ghost and the Darkness | - | $470,211 | - | - | - | - | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Big Night | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
