| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Ninja | $13,485,611 | - | - | - | - | 2,112 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 2 | Metro | $13,255,704 | - | - | - | - | 2,001 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Evita | $10,895,060 | $7,529,008 | 69.1% | $3,366,052 | 30.9% | 923 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Relic | $9,214,226 | - | - | - | - | 2,128 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Jerry Maguire | $8,944,804 | $6,575,605 | 73.5% | $2,369,199 | 26.5% | 2,286 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Scream | $8,422,007 | - | - | - | - | 1,904 | 5 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 7 | Michael | $7,944,672 | - | - | - | - | 2,325 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | $4,604,676 | - | - | - | - | 1,233 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 9 | First Strike | $4,175,401 | - | - | - | - | 1,344 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Mother | $3,813,046 | - | - | - | - | 380 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | 101 Dalmatians | $3,506,184 | - | - | - | - | 1,528 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | One Fine Day | $3,189,694 | - | - | - | - | 1,443 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Turbulence | $3,114,440 | - | - | - | - | 2,094 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | The English Patient | $2,977,714 | - | - | - | - | 553 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Shine | $2,353,825 | - | - | - | - | 306 | 9 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 16 | Everyone Says I Love You | $2,104,491 | - | - | - | - | 268 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | The Preacher's Wife | $1,843,981 | - | - | - | - | 1,149 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Portrait of a Lady | $1,823,678 | - | - | - | - | 570 | 4 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 19 | Albino Alligator | $125,025 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Strawberry & Chocolate | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Jingle All the Way | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Ghosts of Mississippi | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | In Love and War | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hamlet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
