| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Kiss the Girls | $14,824,992 | $11,122,441 | 75% | $3,702,551 | 25% | 2,302 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Seven Years in Tibet | $13,293,985 | $10,020,378 | 75.4% | $3,273,607 | 24.6% | 2,103 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Soul Food | $7,177,788 | $5,622,362 | 78.3% | $1,555,426 | 21.7% | 1,285 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | In & Out | $6,954,578 | $5,474,143 | 78.7% | $1,480,435 | 21.3% | 2,452 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Peacemaker | $6,805,205 | $5,208,646 | 76.5% | $1,596,559 | 23.5% | 2,420 | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 6 | RocketMan | $5,665,032 | $4,472,937 | 79% | $1,192,095 | 21% | 1,836 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | L.A. Confidential | $5,009,188 | $3,665,776 | 73.2% | $1,343,412 | 26.8% | 1,625 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | The Edge | $4,622,936 | $3,473,422 | 75.1% | $1,149,514 | 24.9% | 2,200 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Most Wanted | $3,788,400 | $2,836,490 | 74.9% | $951,910 | 25.1% | 2,098 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Gang Related | $3,176,008 | $2,443,237 | 76.9% | $732,771 | 23.1% | 1,260 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | The Game | $2,746,995 | $2,060,816 | 75% | $686,179 | 25% | 1,804 | 5 | PolyGram | - | false |
| 12 | The Full Monty | $2,678,292 | $1,901,003 | 71% | $777,289 | 29% | 670 | 9 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Men in Black | $576,799 | $443,442 | 76.9% | $133,357 | 23.1% | 677 | 16 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | Air Force One | $414,509 | $308,185 | 74.4% | $106,324 | 25.6% | 521 | 12 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 15 | Boogie Nights | $156,525 | $50,168 | 32% | $106,357 | 68% | 2 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | Liar Liar | $70,930 | $55,695 | 78.5% | $15,235 | 21.5% | 90 | 30 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | $53,090 | $40,935 | 77.1% | $12,155 | 22.9% | 76 | 21 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Lilies | $50,373 | $28,781 | 57.1% | $21,592 | 42.9% | 4 | 1 | Turbulent Arts | - | false |
| 19 | Con Air | $26,320 | $20,006 | 76% | $6,314 | 24% | 39 | 19 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Happy Together | $17,272 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Kino International | - | false |
| - | Going All the Way | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 4 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| - | Different for Girls | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 5 | First Look International | - | false |
| - | Washington Square | - | $111,262 | - | - | - | 9 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Forgotten Silver | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | First Run | - | false |
| - | The Locusts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Contact | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Assignment | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Mrs. Brown | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | U Turn | - | $1,532,022 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
