| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 3 | $83,986,590 | +273.1% | 38.6% | 3 | Mission: Impossible II | $82,701,049 | 98.5% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $61,243,988 | +20.1% | 28.1% | 8 | Dinosaur | $36,399,496 | 59.4% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 1 | $42,901,532 | -20.3% | 19.7% | 5 | Gladiator | $20,649,683 | 48.1% | 4 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 4 | 4 | $7,850,525 | -39.6% | 3.6% | 5 | U-571 | $3,883,785 | 49.5% | 6 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 5 | 5 | $5,882,928 | -26% | 2.7% | 3 | Frequency | $4,296,513 | 73% | 5 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 6 | 6 | $4,175,201 | -28% | 1.9% | 6 | Center Stage | $3,247,030 | 77.8% | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 7 | 8 | $2,481,819 | -33% | 1.1% | 1 | Where the Heart Is | $2,481,819 | 100% | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,987,718 | -63.4% | 0.9% | 3 | Battlefield Earth | $1,368,956 | 68.9% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,971,560 | +12% | 0.9% | 7 | Michael Jordan to the Max | $837,666 | 42.5% | 4 | IMAX | - |
| 10 | 16 | $1,006,815 | +99.2% | 0.5% | 3 | East Is East | $478,558 | 47.5% | 7 | Miramax | - |
| 11 | 11 | $851,787 | -28.1% | 0.4% | 3 | The Big Kahuna | $534,192 | 62.7% | 5 | Lionsgate Films | - |
| 12 | 13 | $738,103 | +5.8% | 0.3% | 2 | The Virgin Suicides | $456,974 | 61.9% | 6 | Paramount Classics | - |
| 13 | 14 | $686,210 | +19.6% | 0.3% | 5 | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | $361,776 | 52.7% | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 14 | 10 | $628,333 | -53.7% | 0.3% | 2 | Held Up | $628,333 | 100% | 3 | Trimark Pictures | - |
| 15 | 12 | $458,490 | -42.2% | 0.2% | 1 | Return to Me | $458,490 | 100% | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 16 | 15 | $363,540 | -30.1% | 0.2% | 2 | Up at the Villa | $363,540 | 100% | 4 | USA Films | - |
| 17 | 17 | $243,362 | +17.5% | 0.1% | 1 | Scream 3 | $243,362 | 100% | 17 | Dimension Films | - |
| 18 | 19 | $134,669 | +50.8% | <0.1% | 1 | Croupier | $134,669 | 100% | 6 | - | - |
| 19 | 18 | $110,046 | +8.7% | <0.1% | 1 | Alien Adventure | $110,046 | 100% | 41 | - | - |
| 20 | 20 | $71,250 | -13.3% | <0.1% | 1 | God's Army | $71,250 | 100% | 12 | - | - |
