| 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 | $27,660,213 | $17,539,274 | 63.4% | $10,120,939 | 36.6% | 2,104 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Absolute Power | $19,685,797 | $14,678,016 | 74.6% | $5,007,781 | 25.4% | 2,568 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Dante's Peak | $15,707,520 | - | - | - | - | 2,727 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Vegas Vacation | $14,730,749 | - | - | - | - | 2,054 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Fools Rush In | $11,046,182 | $8,588,068 | 77.8% | $2,458,114 | 22.2% | 1,674 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | That Darn Cat | $7,553,511 | - | - | - | - | 1,891 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Jerry Maguire | $6,071,195 | $4,588,986 | 75.6% | $1,482,209 | 24.4% | 1,730 | 10 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | The English Patient | $5,556,224 | - | - | - | - | 1,115 | 14 | Miramax | - | false |
| 9 | Shine | $4,272,006 | - | - | - | - | 851 | 13 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 10 | Scream | $3,860,499 | - | - | - | - | 1,431 | 9 | Dimension Films | - | false |
| 11 | The Beautician and the Beast | $3,815,220 | - | - | - | - | 1,801 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Dangerous Ground | $3,394,220 | - | - | - | - | 808 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | Evita | $3,126,771 | $2,148,685 | 68.7% | $978,086 | 31.3% | 956 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Mother | $1,617,400 | - | - | - | - | 735 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Michael | $1,491,468 | - | - | - | - | 946 | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | Metro | $1,288,106 | - | - | - | - | 881 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Beverly Hills Ninja | $1,080,877 | - | - | - | - | 1,065 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 18 | Ransom | $1,048,706 | - | - | - | - | 601 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Everyone Says I Love You | $899,959 | - | - | - | - | 223 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| 20 | Space Jam | $861,774 | - | - | - | - | 786 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 21 | Secrets & Lies | $723,215 | - | - | - | - | 162 | 21 | October Films | - | false |
| 22 | Sling Blade | $712,093 | - | - | - | - | 63 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| 23 | Hamlet | $635,050 | - | - | - | - | 92 | 8 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 24 | Touch | $239,583 | - | - | - | - | 51 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 25 | SubUrbia | $101,074 | - | - | - | - | 24 | 2 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Fargo | - | - | - | - | - | 52 | 50 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | The Whole Wide World | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 7 | Artistic License | - | false |
| - | The Pest | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Relic | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | In Love and War | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | The Graduate 1997 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
