| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $20,831,870 | +67.7% | 37.6% | 4 | The River Wild | $13,200,430 | 63.4% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $9,290,493 | -25.7% | 16.8% | 3 | Forrest Gump | $6,752,085 | 72.7% | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $9,050,236 | -18.6% | 16.3% | 3 | Quiz Show | $4,340,071 | 48% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 7 | $3,125,598 | +63.6% | 5.6% | 2 | The Scout | $1,837,520 | 58.8% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 6 | 4 | $2,704,442 | -27.6% | 4.9% | 2 | The Mask | $1,540,202 | 57% | 10 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,786,954 | -37% | 3.2% | 2 | Natural Born Killers | $1,760,268 | 98.5% | 6 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 8 | 6 | $874,550 | -64.9% | 1.6% | 2 | The Shawshank Redemption | $874,550 | 100% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
