| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $54,850,952 | +86% | 42.3% | 6 | The Matrix | $41,182,725 | 75.1% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 4 | $19,774,735 | +56.1% | 15.3% | 10 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $12,191,601 | 61.7% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 11 | $11,785,159 | +862.6% | 9.1% | 4 | The Out-of-Towners | $11,192,311 | 95% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 4 | 2 | $10,331,881 | -30.7% | 8% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $8,589,696 | 83.1% | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 5 | 5 | $8,520,475 | -23.8% | 6.6% | 5 | Shakespeare in Love | $4,337,932 | 50.9% | 17 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 3 | $7,758,240 | -41.3% | 6% | 3 | Edtv | $5,995,690 | 77.3% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $6,155,819 | -35.2% | 4.7% | 5 | Baby Geniuses | $3,542,790 | 57.6% | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 8 | 6 | $4,476,244 | -55.6% | 3.5% | 2 | The Mod Squad | $3,585,134 | 80.1% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 9 | 12 | $1,464,299 | +24.5% | 1.1% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $779,302 | 53.2% | 24 | IMAX | - |
| 10 | 13 | $862,667 | -16.9% | 0.7% | 4 | Gods and Monsters | $407,305 | 47.2% | 22 | Lionsgate Films | - |
| 11 | 14 | $736,783 | +26.5% | 0.6% | 5 | Central Station | $282,570 | 38.4% | 20 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 12 | 8 | $706,620 | -65.8% | 0.5% | 2 | The Corruptor | $618,349 | 87.5% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 13 | 9 | $614,009 | -60.2% | 0.5% | 2 | Elizabeth | $450,772 | 73.4% | 22 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 14 | 10 | $551,265 | -63.1% | 0.4% | 2 | Wing Commander | $460,650 | 83.6% | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 15 | 15 | $446,093 | +6.1% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $446,093 | 100% | 57 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 16 | 17 | $325,677 | +227% | 0.3% | 3 | Cookie's Fortune | $264,761 | 81.3% | 1 | October Films | - |
| 17 | 16 | $139,445 | -29.3% | 0.1% | 2 | Waking Ned Devine | $139,445 | 100% | 20 | - | - |
