| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Relic | $12,045,341 | $9,064,143 | 75.2% | $2,981,198 | 24.8% | 2,095 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Evita | $11,301,148 | $8,381,055 | 74.2% | $2,920,093 | 25.8% | 704 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Michael | $10,173,263 | $8,284,073 | 81.4% | $1,889,190 | 18.6% | 2,276 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 4 | Scream | $9,549,527 | $7,439,018 | 77.9% | $2,110,509 | 22.1% | 1,833 | 4 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 5 | Jerry Maguire | $9,015,306 | $7,011,880 | 77.8% | $2,003,426 | 22.2% | 2,450 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | First Strike | $7,274,242 | $5,778,933 | 79.4% | $1,495,309 | 20.6% | 1,344 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | $7,135,534 | $5,315,079 | 74.5% | $1,820,455 | 25.5% | 1,233 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Turbulence | $5,887,284 | $4,464,008 | 75.8% | $1,423,276 | 24.2% | 2,094 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | One Fine Day | $4,462,151 | $3,449,369 | 77.3% | $1,012,782 | 22.7% | 1,858 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | 101 Dalmatians | $3,764,146 | $3,127,796 | 83.1% | $636,350 | 16.9% | 2,024 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | $3,715,191 | $2,906,808 | 78.2% | $808,383 | 21.8% | 1,984 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ghosts of Mississippi | $3,090,249 | $2,302,519 | 74.5% | $787,730 | 25.5% | 1,268 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | The Preacher's Wife | $2,830,121 | $2,178,764 | 77% | $651,357 | 23% | 1,581 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The English Patient | $2,802,885 | $2,023,234 | 72.2% | $779,651 | 27.8% | 561 | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Mother | $1,897,236 | $1,432,656 | 75.5% | $464,580 | 24.5% | 159 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Shine | $1,575,210 | $1,119,091 | 71% | $456,119 | 29% | 207 | 8 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 17 | Independence Day | $37 | $24 | 64.9% | $13 | 35.1% | 1 | 29 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Mars Attacks! | - | $1,005,268 | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Portrait of a Lady | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Everyone Says I Love You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | My Fellow Americans | - | $1,180,578 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Evening Star | - | $818,653 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Crucible | - | $718,801 | - | - | - | - | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
