| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Liar Liar | $23,117,970 | $18,275,295 | 79% | $4,842,675 | 21% | 2,874 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Saint | $20,594,229 | $16,278,873 | 79% | $4,315,356 | 21% | 2,307 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Devil's Own | $8,796,902 | $7,013,200 | 79.7% | $1,783,702 | 20.3% | 2,504 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | That Old Feeling | $6,628,240 | $5,103,075 | 77% | $1,525,165 | 23% | 1,575 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Double Team | $6,302,025 | $5,034,914 | 79.9% | $1,267,111 | 20.1% | 2,203 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Selena | $4,365,937 | $3,456,217 | 79.2% | $909,720 | 20.8% | 1,583 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Jungle 2 Jungle | $3,915,851 | $3,198,307 | 81.7% | $717,544 | 18.3% | 2,050 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 1997 Special Edition | $3,564,224 | $2,787,253 | 78.2% | $776,971 | 21.8% | 1,339 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Sixth Man | $3,453,580 | $2,855,434 | 82.7% | $598,146 | 17.3% | 1,231 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Inventing the Abbotts | $2,953,468 | $2,301,138 | 77.9% | $652,330 | 22.1% | 898 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | The English Patient | $2,741,499 | $2,029,724 | 74% | $711,775 | 26% | 1,300 | 21 | Miramax | - | false |
| 12 | Sling Blade | $2,017,313 | $1,522,436 | 75.5% | $494,877 | 24.5% | 905 | 19 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | Jerry Maguire | $1,535,661 | $1,244,495 | 81% | $291,166 | 19% | 810 | 17 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | Evita | $230,777 | $155,761 | 67.5% | $75,016 | 32.5% | 237 | 16 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Das Boot 1997 Director's Cut | $107,808 | $68,369 | 63.4% | $39,439 | 36.6% | 13 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 16 | Anna Karenina | $106,236 | $75,268 | 70.8% | $30,968 | 29.2% | 5 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Childhood's End | $3,804 | $2,556 | 67.2% | $1,248 | 32.8% | 1 | 1 | Plainview Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Schizopolis | $564 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Northern Arts Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Love and Other Catastrophes | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 2 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| - | Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie | - | $1,630,221 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | B*A*P*S | - | $1,603,738 | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | When We Were Kings | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Scream | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Dimension Films | - | false |
