| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 5 | $28,372,410 | +299.4% | 32.9% | 8 | Mission to Mars | $22,855,247 | 80.6% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $12,310,718 | -13.8% | 14.3% | 4 | My Dog Skip | $6,027,373 | 49% | 9 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 1 | $9,985,181 | -34.8% | 11.6% | 6 | The Next Best Thing | $3,360,692 | 33.7% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 4 | 17 | $6,739,907 | +3,951.8% | 7.8% | 2 | The Ninth Gate | $6,622,518 | 98.3% | 1 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 5 | 3 | $6,454,668 | -27.5% | 7.5% | 3 | The Cider House Rules | $3,502,676 | 54.3% | 14 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 8 | $3,881,335 | -12.5% | 4.5% | 2 | American Beauty | $3,664,215 | 94.4% | 26 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 7 | 4 | $3,723,825 | -48.8% | 4.3% | 4 | Hanging Up | $1,702,684 | 45.7% | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 8 | 6 | $3,417,003 | -41.1% | 4% | 1 | Drowning Mona | $3,417,003 | 100% | 2 | Destination Films | - |
| 9 | 7 | $3,324,233 | -40.7% | 3.9% | 5 | Pitch Black | $2,942,270 | 88.5% | 4 | USA Films | - |
| 10 | 9 | $1,944,780 | -49.1% | 2.3% | 2 | 3 Strikes | $1,864,844 | 95.9% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 11 | 10 | $1,540,805 | -46.2% | 1.8% | 1 | Scream 3 | $1,540,805 | 100% | 6 | Dimension Films | - |
| 12 | 11 | $1,404,037 | -42.8% | 1.6% | 3 | Boiler Room | $973,620 | 69.3% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 13 | 12 | $745,503 | -57.5% | 0.9% | 2 | The Beach | $673,568 | 90.4% | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 14 | 14 | $567,834 | +14.3% | 0.7% | 3 | Boys Don't Cry | $462,078 | 81.4% | 23 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 15 | 16 | $480,960 | +27.1% | 0.6% | 4 | Sweet and Lowdown | $244,662 | 50.9% | 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 16 | 15 | $437,938 | +10.4% | 0.5% | 5 | Mysteries of Egypt | $197,312 | 45.1% | 82 | IMAX | - |
| 17 | 13 | $409,895 | -45.8% | 0.5% | 2 | The Hurricane | $326,845 | 79.7% | 11 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 19 | 18 | $96,195 | -0.4% | 0.1% | 1 | The Cup | $96,195 | 100% | 7 | Fine Line Features | - |
| 21 | 19 | $34,607 | -57.9% | <0.1% | 1 | Everest | $34,607 | 100% | 106 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
