| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 1 | $20,897,002 | -9% | 35.7% | 3 | Home Alone | $17,754,246 | 85% | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 2 | $9,101,359 | -30% | 15.5% | 1 | Misery | $9,101,359 | 100% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 9 | $7,970,797 | +895.4% | 13.6% | 2 | The Rookie | $7,431,337 | 93.2% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 3 | $7,553,960 | -37% | 12.9% | 2 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $5,789,025 | 76.6% | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $7,272,350 | -21.4% | 12.4% | 1 | Dances with Wolves | $7,272,350 | 100% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,282,107 | -43.6% | 3.9% | 1 | Rocky V | $2,282,107 | 100% | 4 | United Artists | - |
| 7 | 6 | $1,893,929 | -20.6% | 3.2% | 1 | Ghost | $1,893,929 | 100% | 22 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $854,998 | -47.6% | 1.5% | 1 | Child's Play 2 | $854,998 | 100% | 5 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $614,777 | -43.9% | 1.1% | 1 | Jacob's Ladder | $614,777 | 100% | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - |
