| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $35,069,708 | +16.3% | 34.6% | 3 | Independence Day | $17,197,580 | 49% | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 2 | $20,197,020 | -31.7% | 19.9% | 3 | A Time to Kill | $20,197,020 | 100% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 8 | $15,047,600 | +154.4% | 14.8% | 3 | Matilda | $13,921,188 | 92.5% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 4 | 3 | $9,896,460 | -51% | 9.8% | 4 | Phenomenon | $8,105,006 | 81.9% | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $7,256,286 | -47.6% | 7.2% | 2 | Kingpin | $7,256,286 | 100% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 6 | $6,850,660 | -22.8% | 6.8% | 3 | Supercop | $4,016,155 | 58.6% | 2 | Miramax | - |
| 7 | 5 | $6,313,500 | -50.4% | 6.2% | 2 | The Nutty Professor | $6,313,500 | 100% | 6 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 8 | 9 | $639,257 | -83.9% | 0.6% | 2 | Mission: Impossible | $639,257 | 100% | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 10 | $126,693 | +1.2% | 0.1% | 1 | Stonewall | $126,693 | 100% | 2 | Strand Releasing | - |
