| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 3 | $15,450,390 | +21.3% | 19.4% | 8 | The Other Sister | $6,624,445 | 42.9% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 9 | $15,099,118 | +585.6% | 19% | 3 | 8MM | $14,252,888 | 94.4% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 3 | 2 | $12,423,039 | -7.8% | 15.6% | 6 | Payback | $6,788,367 | 54.6% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 4 | 1 | $10,458,548 | -25% | 13.2% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $4,372,632 | 41.8% | 12 | Miramax | - |
| 5 | 4 | $6,705,488 | -37.2% | 8.4% | 3 | Message in a Bottle | $6,412,737 | 95.6% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $5,751,720 | -26.6% | 7.2% | 3 | October Sky | $4,808,150 | 83.6% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $3,819,675 | -36.5% | 4.8% | 3 | Blast from the Past | $3,503,125 | 91.7% | 3 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,929,470 | -45.2% | 3.7% | 3 | Office Space | $2,494,756 | 85.2% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 9 | 8 | $2,241,195 | -28% | 2.8% | 3 | Saving Private Ryan | $1,635,318 | 73% | 32 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 10 | 10 | $965,414 | -33.3% | 1.2% | 4 | Affliction | $704,855 | 73% | 9 | Lionsgate | - |
| 11 | 11 | $787,961 | -28.3% | 1% | 1 | Elizabeth | $787,961 | 100% | 17 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 12 | 13 | $680,014 | +20% | 0.9% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $451,662 | 66.4% | 19 | IMAX | - |
| 13 | 12 | $612,973 | -22.1% | 0.8% | 2 | Waking Ned Devine | $572,729 | 93.4% | 15 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 14 | 14 | $465,583 | -16.7% | 0.6% | 4 | Central Station | $339,385 | 72.9% | 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 15 | 17 | $356,797 | +141.7% | 0.4% | 2 | Just the Ticket | $247,585 | 69.4% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 16 | 16 | $302,095 | -12.3% | 0.4% | 1 | Everest | $302,095 | 100% | 52 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 17 | 15 | $216,915 | -41.3% | 0.3% | 1 | Hilary and Jackie | $216,915 | 100% | 9 | October Films | - |
| 18 | 18 | $80,470 | +37.6% | 0.1% | 1 | Another Day in Paradise | $80,470 | 100% | 9 | Trimark Pictures | - |
