| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Michael | $30,395,153 | $17,435,711 | 57.4% | $12,959,442 | 42.6% | 2,141 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Jerry Maguire | $24,649,229 | $14,024,111 | 56.9% | $10,625,118 | 43.1% | 2,531 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | 101 Dalmatians | $21,719,166 | $11,384,660 | 52.4% | $10,334,506 | 47.6% | 2,901 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | $17,483,763 | $10,211,248 | 58.4% | $7,272,515 | 41.6% | 2,379 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Scream | $16,891,105 | $9,075,667 | 53.7% | $7,815,438 | 46.3% | 1,450 | 2 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 6 | One Fine Day | $14,620,251 | $8,027,257 | 54.9% | $6,592,994 | 45.1% | 1,975 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | The Preacher's Wife | $13,135,192 | $7,347,274 | 55.9% | $5,787,918 | 44.1% | 2,008 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mars Attacks! | $9,575,642 | $5,075,963 | 53% | $4,499,679 | 47% | 1,955 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | My Fellow Americans | $8,669,905 | $4,166,630 | 48.1% | $4,503,275 | 51.9% | 1,915 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Evening Star | $5,886,693 | $3,306,445 | 56.2% | $2,580,248 | 43.8% | 1,265 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Jingle All the Way | $5,381,193 | $2,929,382 | 54.4% | $2,451,811 | 45.6% | 1,723 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The English Patient | $5,175,992 | $2,659,575 | 51.4% | $2,516,417 | 48.6% | 582 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | Daylight | $5,033,270 | $2,705,420 | 53.8% | $2,327,850 | 46.2% | 1,707 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Ransom | $4,959,621 | $2,682,478 | 54.1% | $2,277,143 | 45.9% | 1,171 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Star Trek: First Contact | $4,816,716 | $2,570,680 | 53.4% | $2,246,036 | 46.6% | 1,019 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Space Jam | $4,233,746 | $2,116,599 | 50% | $2,117,147 | 50% | 1,379 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Shine | $3,139,730 | $1,602,329 | 51% | $1,537,401 | 49% | 207 | 6 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 18 | The Crucible | $1,796,126 | $803,471 | 44.7% | $992,655 | 55.3% | 143 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 19 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | $1,146,522 | $523,295 | 45.6% | $623,227 | 54.4% | 16 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 20 | Evita | $1,021,722 | $195,085 | 19.1% | $826,637 | 80.9% | 22 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Some Mother's Son | $172,510 | $88,515 | 51.3% | $83,995 | 48.7% | 14 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 22 | Independence Day | $12,078 | $6,610 | 54.7% | $5,468 | 45.3% | 23 | 27 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Ghosts of Mississippi | - | $212,246 | - | - | - | 21 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Romeo + Juliet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Bitter Sugar | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | First Look International | - | false |
| - | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
