| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $8,272,582 | -38.4% | 22.3% | 3 | Die Hard | $3,535,801 | 42.7% | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 2 | $5,589,165 | -44.9% | 15.1% | 2 | Cocktail | $3,010,684 | 53.9% | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 9 | $5,159,218 | +46.1% | 13.9% | 3 | Moon Over Parador | $4,236,626 | 82.1% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 3 | $3,960,626 | -46.1% | 10.7% | 2 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | $3,960,626 | 100% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 5 | 5 | $3,887,761 | -35.3% | 10.5% | 2 | A Fish Called Wanda | $3,870,331 | 99.6% | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 4 | $3,398,533 | -47.2% | 9.2% | 1 | Betrayed | $3,398,533 | 100% | 3 | United Artists | - |
| 7 | 6 | $3,116,293 | -41.9% | 8.4% | 2 | Coming to America | $1,722,668 | 55.3% | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,804,873 | -47% | 7.6% | 2 | Married to the Mob | $2,193,515 | 78.2% | 4 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $553,247 | -88.8% | 1.5% | 4 | Running on Empty | $310,880 | 56.2% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 10 | 13 | $212,164 | +824.6% | 0.6% | 1 | The Deceivers | $212,164 | 100% | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - |
| 11 | 11 | $113,109 | +4.6% | 0.3% | 1 | The Thin Blue Line | $113,109 | 100% | 3 | Miramax | - |
