| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | $30,910,239 | $20,114,233 | 65.1% | $10,796,006 | 34.9% | 2,190 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Jerry Maguire | $23,165,548 | $13,125,660 | 56.7% | $10,039,888 | 43.3% | 2,531 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | 101 Dalmatians | $14,936,798 | $6,989,334 | 46.8% | $7,947,464 | 53.2% | 2,901 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Scream | $12,177,537 | $6,354,586 | 52.2% | $5,822,951 | 47.8% | 1,413 | 1 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 5 | One Fine Day | $11,407,787 | $6,226,430 | 54.6% | $5,181,357 | 45.4% | 1,946 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Preacher's Wife | $10,486,844 | $5,182,161 | 49.4% | $5,304,683 | 50.6% | 1,989 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Michael | $10,193,485 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Mars Attacks! | $8,789,285 | $4,674,116 | 53.2% | $4,115,169 | 46.8% | 1,955 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | My Fellow Americans | $6,004,356 | $2,860,334 | 47.6% | $3,144,022 | 52.4% | 1,915 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Jingle All the Way | $5,965,065 | $3,114,864 | 52.2% | $2,850,201 | 47.8% | 2,112 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Star Trek: First Contact | $4,468,550 | $2,306,509 | 51.6% | $2,162,041 | 48.4% | 1,569 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Daylight | $4,314,580 | $2,437,750 | 56.5% | $1,876,830 | 43.5% | 1,990 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ransom | $3,422,938 | $1,798,788 | 52.6% | $1,624,150 | 47.4% | 1,326 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The English Patient | $3,335,282 | $1,670,429 | 50.1% | $1,664,853 | 49.9% | 612 | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Space Jam | $2,750,344 | $1,269,691 | 46.2% | $1,480,653 | 53.8% | 1,579 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Evening Star | $1,966,004 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Crucible | $1,216,068 | $641,569 | 52.8% | $574,499 | 47.2% | 137 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 18 | Evita | $139,355 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Mother | $90,339 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Hamlet | $56,637 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 21 | The Portrait of a Lady | $26,986 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 22 | Some Mother's Son | $23,034 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 23 | The Whole Wide World | $12,563 | $3,316 | 26.4% | $9,247 | 73.6% | 1 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 24 | Independence Day | $8,876 | $5,244 | 59.1% | $3,632 | 40.9% | 22 | 26 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 25 | I'm Not Rappaport | $8,018 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Bitter Sugar | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 11 | First Look International | - | false |
| - | Shine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
