| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | $73,030,878 | +509.6% | 66.3% | 4 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | $64,820,970 | 88.8% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 1 | $15,705,150 | -44.5% | 14.3% | 5 | The Mummy | $13,791,960 | 87.8% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $3,808,987 | -36.2% | 3.5% | 6 | The Matrix | $2,875,521 | 75.5% | 8 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 12 | $3,103,490 | +364.5% | 2.8% | 4 | The Love Letter | $2,692,819 | 86.8% | 1 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 5 | 5 | $2,655,904 | -38.9% | 2.4% | 2 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $2,608,636 | 98.2% | 2 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 6 | 7 | $2,077,910 | -28% | 1.9% | 3 | Election | $1,474,508 | 71% | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $2,065,112 | -36.9% | 1.9% | 3 | Trippin' | $1,414,155 | 68.5% | 2 | October Films | - |
| 8 | 8 | $1,877,993 | -22.9% | 1.7% | 7 | Shakespeare in Love | $745,400 | 39.7% | 24 | Miramax | - |
| 9 | 4 | $1,750,803 | -61.9% | 1.6% | 3 | Black Mask | $1,665,811 | 95.1% | 2 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 10 | 9 | $1,318,593 | -23.6% | 1.2% | 2 | Tea with Mussolini | $1,280,862 | 97.1% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 11 | 10 | $881,866 | -36.3% | 0.8% | 4 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $584,961 | 66.3% | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 12 | 11 | $475,353 | -55% | 0.4% | 4 | Go | $141,185 | 29.7% | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 13 | 13 | $412,319 | -2.2% | 0.4% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $260,367 | 63.1% | 31 | IMAX | - |
| 14 | 14 | $294,477 | -8.2% | 0.3% | 4 | The Winslow Boy | $123,338 | 41.9% | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 15 | 16 | $206,333 | +164.2% | 0.2% | 2 | Trekkies | $125,636 | 60.9% | 1 | Paramount Classics | - |
| 16 | 15 | $183,365 | -11% | 0.2% | 1 | Everest | $183,365 | 100% | 64 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 18 | 18 | $61,545 | -7.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $61,545 | 100% | 13 | nWave Pictures | - |
| 19 | 17 | $46,318 | -34.9% | <0.1% | 1 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $46,318 | 100% | 12 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 20 | 23 | $42,037 | +19% | <0.1% | 1 | Edge of Seventeen | $42,037 | 100% | 4 | Strand Releasing | - |
| 21 | 19 | $33,671 | -43% | <0.1% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $33,671 | 100% | 6 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
