| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 5 | $21,905,755 | +226.7% | 26.7% | 3 | Analyze This | $18,383,507 | 83.9% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $20,273,293 | +34.3% | 24.7% | 5 | Cruel Intentions | $13,020,565 | 64.2% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 3 | 1 | $11,994,104 | -22.4% | 14.6% | 9 | The Other Sister | $5,731,839 | 47.8% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 4 | $8,039,378 | -23.1% | 9.8% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $3,306,893 | 41.1% | 13 | Miramax | - |
| 5 | 3 | $6,888,710 | -44.5% | 8.4% | 6 | Payback | $4,128,407 | 59.9% | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 6 | 6 | $4,278,360 | -25.6% | 5.2% | 3 | October Sky | $3,701,640 | 86.5% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $2,074,923 | -45.7% | 2.5% | 2 | Blast from the Past | $1,836,995 | 88.5% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 8 | 9 | $1,648,357 | -26.5% | 2% | 3 | Saving Private Ryan | $1,177,743 | 71.4% | 33 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,277,493 | -56.4% | 1.6% | 3 | Office Space | $1,005,897 | 78.7% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 10 | 11 | $763,944 | -3% | 0.9% | 2 | Elizabeth | $620,623 | 81.2% | 18 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 11 | 12 | $664,306 | -2.3% | 0.8% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $417,660 | 62.9% | 20 | IMAX | - |
| 12 | 10 | $553,941 | -42.6% | 0.7% | 2 | Affliction | $402,688 | 72.7% | 10 | Lionsgate | - |
| 13 | 14 | $455,018 | -2.3% | 0.6% | 3 | Central Station | $270,564 | 59.5% | 16 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 14 | 13 | $428,053 | -30.2% | 0.5% | 2 | Waking Ned Devine | $366,081 | 85.5% | 16 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 15 | 16 | $252,498 | -16.4% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $252,498 | 100% | 53 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 16 | 15 | $171,209 | -52% | 0.2% | 2 | Just the Ticket | $86,017 | 50.2% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 17 | 17 | $134,427 | -38% | 0.2% | 1 | Hilary and Jackie | $134,427 | 100% | 10 | October Films | - |
| 19 | 18 | $66,495 | -17.4% | <0.1% | 1 | Another Day in Paradise | $66,495 | 100% | 10 | Trimark Pictures | - |
| 20 | 19 | $63,899 | +30.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Babar: King of the Elephants | $63,899 | 100% | 2 | Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm | - |
| 22 | 20 | $9,521 | -77.9% | <0.1% | 1 | Six Ways to Sunday | $9,521 | 100% | 1 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
