| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $16,270,345 | +64% | 39.7% | 4 | The River Wild | $10,214,450 | 62.8% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 2 | 3 | $6,739,969 | -20% | 16.5% | 3 | Quiz Show | $3,365,119 | 49.9% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $6,371,282 | -34.2% | 15.6% | 3 | Forrest Gump | $4,368,160 | 68.6% | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 5 | 7 | $2,434,640 | +66.2% | 5.9% | 2 | The Scout | $1,458,837 | 59.9% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 6 | 4 | $2,162,702 | -27.6% | 5.3% | 2 | The Mask | $1,253,951 | 58% | 10 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,257,629 | -37.5% | 3.1% | 2 | Natural Born Killers | $1,238,439 | 98.5% | 6 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 8 | 6 | $604,259 | -68.9% | 1.5% | 2 | The Shawshank Redemption | $604,259 | 100% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
