| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $23,969,144 | -19.1% | 29.3% | 7 | The Matrix | $17,941,314 | 74.9% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 8 | $22,202,425 | +638.7% | 27.1% | 4 | Life | $20,414,775 | 91.9% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $8,411,489 | -29.6% | 10.3% | 1 | Never Been Kissed | $8,411,489 | 100% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 3 | $5,770,480 | -32.3% | 7% | 7 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $3,733,562 | 64.7% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $5,215,592 | -27.9% | 6.4% | 5 | Shakespeare in Love | $1,750,254 | 33.6% | 19 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 5 | $4,457,911 | -36.8% | 5.4% | 6 | Go | $3,018,312 | 67.7% | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 7 | 6 | $3,298,550 | -37.4% | 4% | 3 | The Out-of-Towners | $3,114,729 | 94.4% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $3,279,795 | -25.2% | 4% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $2,464,522 | 75.1% | 5 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 9 | 11 | $1,801,083 | +78.4% | 2.2% | 1 | Cookie's Fortune | $1,801,083 | 100% | 3 | October Films | - |
| 10 | 12 | $600,821 | -11.8% | 0.7% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $331,749 | 55.2% | 26 | IMAX | - |
| 11 | 9 | $587,652 | -73.1% | 0.7% | 2 | Foolish | $549,363 | 93.5% | 2 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 12 | 10 | $420,648 | -60.9% | 0.5% | 2 | The Mod Squad | $261,451 | 62.2% | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 13 | 15 | $411,801 | +1.5% | 0.5% | 6 | The Dreamlife of Angels | $130,858 | 31.8% | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 14 | 13 | $342,099 | -21% | 0.4% | 2 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $173,195 | 50.6% | 7 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 15 | 16 | $288,305 | -27.3% | 0.4% | 4 | Gods and Monsters | $116,726 | 40.5% | 24 | Lionsgate | - |
| 16 | 14 | $252,029 | -41.4% | 0.3% | 2 | Blast from the Past | $190,635 | 75.6% | 10 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 17 | 17 | $239,468 | -4.4% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $239,468 | 100% | 59 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 18 | 18 | $137,066 | +43.9% | 0.2% | 1 | Waking Ned Devine | $137,066 | 100% | 22 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 21 | 19 | $51,066 | +1% | <0.1% | 1 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $51,066 | 100% | 8 | nWave Pictures | - |
