| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 1 | $37,433,808 | +154.1% | 42% | 6 | The Matrix | $27,788,331 | 74.2% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 7 | $12,873,623 | +90.9% | 14.4% | 10 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $8,330,681 | 64.7% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 10 | $8,715,460 | +758.2% | 9.8% | 4 | The Out-of-Towners | $8,224,215 | 94.4% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 4 | 2 | $7,299,962 | -32.3% | 8.2% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $6,200,540 | 84.9% | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 5 | 4 | $6,182,945 | -22.1% | 6.9% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $3,115,017 | 50.4% | 17 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 3 | $5,635,570 | -43.3% | 6.3% | 3 | Edtv | $4,446,390 | 78.9% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $3,959,610 | -42.3% | 4.4% | 5 | Baby Geniuses | $2,022,132 | 51.1% | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 8 | 5 | $3,215,393 | -58.5% | 3.6% | 2 | The Mod Squad | $2,568,784 | 79.9% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 9 | 13 | $659,934 | +8.3% | 0.7% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $414,746 | 62.8% | 24 | IMAX | - |
| 10 | 11 | $637,371 | -26.7% | 0.7% | 2 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $320,259 | 50.2% | 5 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 11 | 12 | $577,851 | -23.5% | 0.6% | 4 | Gods and Monsters | $275,113 | 47.6% | 22 | Lionsgate Films | - |
| 12 | 9 | $471,638 | -70.4% | 0.5% | 2 | The Corruptor | $412,191 | 87.4% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 13 | 14 | $450,731 | -0.7% | 0.5% | 4 | Central Station | $200,679 | 44.5% | 20 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 14 | 8 | $423,992 | -73.8% | 0.5% | 2 | Wing Commander | $365,913 | 86.3% | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 15 | 15 | $264,004 | <0.1% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $264,004 | 100% | 57 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 16 | 17 | $233,904 | +215.1% | 0.3% | 3 | Cookie's Fortune | $186,828 | 79.9% | 1 | October Films | - |
| 17 | 16 | $97,049 | -59.1% | 0.1% | 2 | Waking Ned Devine | $97,049 | 100% | 20 | - | - |
