| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Evita | $7,325,757 | $5,415,891 | 73.9% | $1,909,866 | 26.1% | 1,016 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Metro | $7,221,152 | $5,479,213 | 75.9% | $1,741,939 | 24.1% | 2,005 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Jerry Maguire | $7,138,422 | $5,518,727 | 77.3% | $1,619,695 | 22.7% | 2,207 | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | In Love and War | $6,806,412 | $5,489,245 | 80.6% | $1,317,167 | 19.4% | 1,610 | 7 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 5 | Beverly Hills Ninja | $6,716,766 | $5,481,640 | 81.6% | $1,235,126 | 18.4% | 2,112 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Scream | $5,304,873 | $4,040,199 | 76.2% | $1,264,674 | 23.8% | 1,994 | 6 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 7 | The Relic | $5,242,357 | $4,008,970 | 76.5% | $1,233,387 | 23.5% | 2,128 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Fierce Creatures | $4,822,185 | $3,759,480 | 78% | $1,062,705 | 22% | 1,593 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Michael | $4,095,624 | $3,130,599 | 76.4% | $965,025 | 23.6% | 2,206 | 6 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Mother | $3,513,600 | $2,586,424 | 73.6% | $927,176 | 26.4% | 621 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Zeus and Roxanne | $3,258,713 | $2,755,382 | 84.6% | $503,331 | 15.4% | 1,745 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | $2,840,047 | $2,101,914 | 74% | $738,133 | 26% | 1,233 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | The English Patient | $2,592,732 | $1,915,342 | 73.9% | $677,390 | 26.1% | 615 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Shine | $1,975,969 | $1,441,744 | 73% | $534,225 | 27% | 314 | 10 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 15 | First Strike | $1,861,183 | $1,428,839 | 76.8% | $432,344 | 23.2% | 1,154 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | Everyone Says I Love You | $1,499,282 | $1,107,180 | 73.8% | $392,102 | 26.2% | 270 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | One Fine Day | $1,415,336 | $1,108,752 | 78.3% | $306,584 | 21.7% | 1,084 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 18 | 101 Dalmatians | $1,375,987 | $1,152,421 | 83.8% | $223,566 | 16.2% | 1,249 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Turbulence | $1,172,744 | $813,237 | 69.3% | $359,507 | 30.7% | 1,499 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 20 | Gridlock'd | $924,677 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 21 | Jingle All the Way | $730,614 | $597,545 | 81.8% | $133,069 | 18.2% | 655 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 22 | Hamlet | $627,267 | $455,728 | 72.6% | $171,539 | 27.4% | 56 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Brother of Sleep | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | The Portrait of a Lady | - | $569,997 | - | - | - | - | 5 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Prefontaine | - | $311,253 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Preacher's Wife | - | $572,268 | - | - | - | - | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Reggie's Prayer | - | $5,120 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Arrow Releasing | - | false |
| - | Albino Alligator | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
