| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | - | - | - | $652,085 | 26 | $3,931,932 | Jan 10 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | - | - | - | $245,738 | 26 | $30,142 | Feb 14 | Vertical Entertainment | false |
| 3 | Monsters, Inc. | - | - | - | $146,329 | 19 | $294,637 | Jan 31 | - | false |
| 4 | Vanilla Sky | - | - | - | $128,147 | 19 | $234,533 | Jan 24 | - | false |
| 5 | Bandits | - | - | - | $121,357 | 18 | $151,744 | Jan 31 | - | false |
| 6 | Traffic | - | - | - | $78,367 | 15 | $119,227 | Jan 24 | - | false |
| 7 | The Damned | - | - | - | $69,607 | 15 | $82,851 | Feb 7 | - | false |
| 8 | American Pie 2 | - | - | - | $62,573 | 20 | $779,329 | Nov 15 | - | false |
| 9 | Max, Sally and the Magic Phone | - | - | - | $54,146 | 21 | $430,012 | Dec 6 | - | false |
| 10 | A Beautiful Mind | - | - | - | $52,616 | 18 | $444,889 | Feb 21 | - | false |
| 11 | Black Hawk Down | - | - | - | $48,984 | 18 | $150,721 | Feb 21 | - | false |
| 12 | Bridget Jones's Diary | - | - | - | $43,844 | 16 | $954,573 | Aug 9 | - | false |
| 13 | Moulin Rouge! | - | - | - | $40,356 | 15 | $422,456 | Nov 1 | - | false |
| 14 | Amélie | - | - | - | $37,956 | 13 | $654,778 | Sep 20 | - | false |
| 15 | Legally Blonde | - | - | - | $30,496 | 12 | $184,468 | Dec 13 | - | false |
| 16 | From Hell | - | - | - | $28,232 | 18 | $194,146 | Jan 3 | - | false |
| 17 | The Pledge | - | - | - | $24,932 | 12 | $70,316 | Jan 17 | - | false |
| 18 | Behind Enemy Lines | - | - | - | $23,414 | 9 | $23,414 | Jan 31 | - | false |
| 19 | Brotherhood of the Wolf | - | - | - | $19,671 | 12 | $69,532 | Feb 14 | - | false |
| 20 | Intimacy | - | - | - | $16,793 | 7 | $18,199 | Jan 31 | - | false |
| 21 | Large | - | - | - | $10,034 | 9 | $15,831 | Feb 21 | - | false |
| 22 | Mulholland Drive | - | - | - | $7,976 | 7 | $92,926 | Feb 28 | - | false |
| 23 | Cats & Dogs | - | - | - | $7,542 | 16 | $124,235 | Nov 22 | - | false |
| 24 | The Princess Diaries | - | - | - | $6,896 | 14 | $102,771 | Nov 29 | - | false |
| 25 | The One | - | - | - | $6,872 | 15 | $40,025 | Jan 17 | - | false |
| 26 | Wild Flowers | - | - | - | $1,833 | 17 | $751,009 | Dec 7 | - | false |
| 27 | Lucky Break | - | - | - | $1,549 | 10 | $13,883 | Jan 17 | - | false |
