| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $29,630,942 | -20.8% | 35.2% | 7 | The Matrix | $22,563,331 | 76.1% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 14 | $11,954,908 | +2,719.6% | 14.2% | 3 | Never Been Kissed | $11,836,707 | 99% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 3 | 2 | $8,523,312 | -33.8% | 10.1% | 9 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $5,049,227 | 59.2% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 5 | $7,230,011 | +16.9% | 8.6% | 5 | Twin Dragons | $2,829,990 | 39.1% | 1 | Miramax | - |
| 5 | 7 | $7,053,147 | +78.1% | 8.4% | 6 | Go | $4,706,795 | 66.7% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 6 | 3 | $5,269,844 | -39.5% | 6.3% | 3 | The Out-of-Towners | $5,010,781 | 95.1% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 7 | 4 | $4,382,141 | -40% | 5.2% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $3,537,259 | 80.7% | 4 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 8 | 6 | $3,005,410 | -46.7% | 3.6% | 3 | Edtv | $2,055,075 | 68.4% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 10 | 8 | $1,075,652 | -66.5% | 1.3% | 2 | The Mod Squad | $818,602 | 76.1% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 11 | 16 | $1,009,581 | +331.6% | 1.2% | 2 | Cookie's Fortune | $1,009,581 | 100% | 2 | October Films | - |
| 12 | 9 | $681,425 | +3.3% | 0.8% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $377,698 | 55.4% | 25 | IMAX | - |
| 13 | 10 | $432,792 | -32.1% | 0.5% | 2 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $227,978 | 52.7% | 6 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 14 | 12 | $430,010 | -8.8% | 0.5% | 2 | Blast from the Past | $255,907 | 59.5% | 9 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 15 | 13 | $405,743 | -10% | 0.5% | 5 | Central Station | $126,513 | 31.2% | 21 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 16 | 11 | $396,549 | -31.4% | 0.5% | 6 | Gods and Monsters | $163,029 | 41.1% | 23 | Lionsgate Films | - |
| 17 | 15 | $250,524 | -5.1% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $250,524 | 100% | 58 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 18 | 17 | $95,233 | -1.9% | 0.1% | 1 | Waking Ned Devine | $95,233 | 100% | 21 | - | - |
| 19 | 18 | $50,542 | -30.6% | <0.1% | 1 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $50,542 | 100% | 7 | - | - |
