| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 1 | $19,715,934 | -17.7% | 31.4% | 8 | The Matrix | $12,642,717 | 64.1% | 4 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $12,393,160 | -44.2% | 19.7% | 4 | Life | $11,257,995 | 90.8% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $9,569,525 | +13.8% | 15.2% | 2 | Never Been Kissed | $6,014,493 | 62.9% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 5 | $5,256,864 | +0.8% | 8.4% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $1,256,967 | 23.9% | 20 | Miramax | - |
| 5 | 4 | $3,877,963 | -32.8% | 6.2% | 5 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $2,717,023 | 70.1% | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 6 | $3,033,752 | -31.9% | 4.8% | 6 | Go | $2,020,829 | 66.6% | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 7 | 7 | $2,355,769 | -28.6% | 3.8% | 4 | The Out-of-Towners | $2,017,725 | 85.7% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $2,179,516 | -33.5% | 3.5% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $1,624,689 | 74.5% | 6 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,306,479 | -27.5% | 2.1% | 2 | Cookie's Fortune | $1,306,479 | 100% | 4 | October Films | - |
| 10 | 11 | $718,813 | +22.3% | 1.1% | 1 | Foolish | $718,813 | 100% | 3 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 11 | 10 | $619,424 | +3.1% | 1% | 4 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $295,855 | 47.8% | 27 | IMAX | - |
| 12 | 13 | $338,234 | -17.9% | 0.5% | 4 | The Dreamlife of Angels | $116,282 | 34.4% | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 13 | 14 | $242,016 | -29.3% | 0.4% | 2 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $128,068 | 52.9% | 8 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 14 | 16 | $231,283 | -8.2% | 0.4% | 2 | Blast from the Past | $117,580 | 50.8% | 11 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 15 | 17 | $227,674 | -4.9% | 0.4% | 1 | Everest | $227,674 | 100% | 60 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 16 | 19 | $209,606 | +154.3% | 0.3% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $209,606 | 100% | 2 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
| 17 | 12 | $177,944 | -57.7% | 0.3% | 2 | The Mod Squad | $91,436 | 51.4% | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 18 | 18 | $130,044 | -5.1% | 0.2% | 1 | Waking Ned Devine | $130,044 | 100% | 23 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 19 | 15 | $123,301 | -57.2% | 0.2% | 2 | Gods and Monsters | $68,398 | 55.5% | 25 | Lionsgate | - |
| 20 | 20 | $52,248 | -27.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Silsila Hai Pyar Ka | $52,248 | 100% | 2 | Eros Worldwide | - |
