| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1997 Special Edition | $30,779,353 | $24,277,091 | 78.9% | $6,502,262 | 21.1% | 2,104 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Dante's Peak | $22,608,830 | $18,479,435 | 81.7% | $4,129,395 | 18.3% | 2,657 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Beautician and the Beast | $5,037,204 | $4,080,222 | 81% | $956,982 | 19% | 1,801 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Jerry Maguire | $4,800,088 | $3,580,033 | 74.6% | $1,220,055 | 25.4% | 1,964 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Scream | $4,400,833 | $3,563,218 | 81% | $837,615 | 19% | 1,750 | 8 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 6 | Evita | $3,918,604 | $3,001,066 | 76.6% | $917,538 | 23.4% | 1,045 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The English Patient | $3,377,060 | $2,237,749 | 66.3% | $1,139,311 | 33.7% | 1,042 | 13 | Miramax | - | false |
| 8 | Metro | $3,143,935 | $2,492,775 | 79.3% | $651,160 | 20.7% | 1,728 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Beverly Hills Ninja | $2,434,309 | $2,014,802 | 82.8% | $419,507 | 17.2% | 1,956 | 4 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 10 | Michael | $2,392,101 | $1,942,705 | 81.2% | $449,396 | 18.8% | 1,660 | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | In Love and War | $2,312,853 | $1,841,949 | 79.6% | $470,904 | 20.4% | 1,612 | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 12 | Mother | $2,240,802 | $1,724,604 | 77% | $516,198 | 23% | 735 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Pest | $2,175,131 | $1,817,278 | 83.6% | $357,853 | 16.4% | 1,205 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | The Relic | $1,662,726 | $1,356,390 | 81.6% | $306,336 | 18.4% | 1,145 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Shine | $1,546,738 | $1,030,587 | 66.6% | $516,151 | 33.4% | 314 | 12 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 16 | Everyone Says I Love You | $1,271,156 | $1,001,154 | 78.8% | $270,002 | 21.2% | 276 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Space Jam | $1,045,539 | $855,878 | 81.9% | $189,661 | 18.1% | 827 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Hamlet | $454,818 | $344,057 | 75.6% | $110,761 | 24.4% | 56 | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 19 | SubUrbia | $100,300 | $69,365 | 69.2% | $30,935 | 30.8% | 16 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 20 | Hotel de Love | $66,415 | $50,947 | 76.7% | $15,468 | 23.3% | 18 | 1 | Live Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Sling Blade | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Fierce Creatures | - | $861,545 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Secrets & Lies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Shadow Conspiracy | - | $384,106 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Some Mother's Son | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Gridlock'd | - | $860,261 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | One Fine Day | - | $411,984 | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The People vs. Larry Flynt | - | $600,288 | - | - | - | - | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Ransom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Meet Wally Sparks | - | $586,576 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| - | Zeus and Roxanne | - | $809,192 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
