| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | I Know What You Did Last Summer | $15,595,068 | $12,507,880 | 80.2% | $3,087,188 | 19.8% | 2,524 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 2 | The Devil's Advocate | $13,496,585 | $10,218,953 | 75.7% | $3,277,632 | 24.3% | 2,351 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Kiss the Girls | $6,635,740 | $5,136,886 | 77.4% | $1,498,854 | 22.6% | 2,406 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Seven Years in Tibet | $6,154,809 | $4,715,925 | 76.6% | $1,438,884 | 23.4% | 2,103 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Gattaca | $5,651,196 | $4,320,202 | 76.4% | $1,330,994 | 23.6% | 1,279 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | FairyTale: A True Story | $4,215,182 | $3,515,323 | 83.4% | $699,859 | 16.6% | 1,058 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | In & Out | $3,446,200 | $2,834,185 | 82.2% | $612,015 | 17.8% | 2,069 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | A Life Less Ordinary | $2,665,093 | $2,007,279 | 75.3% | $657,814 | 24.7% | 1,207 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | L.A. Confidential | $2,596,604 | $2,004,099 | 77.2% | $592,505 | 22.8% | 1,151 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Boogie Nights | $2,576,955 | $1,807,702 | 70.2% | $769,253 | 29.8% | 124 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | Soul Food | $2,525,441 | $2,001,307 | 79.2% | $524,134 | 20.8% | 1,203 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | RocketMan | $2,395,998 | $2,074,078 | 86.6% | $321,920 | 13.4% | 1,867 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Bean | $2,368,478 | $1,617,579 | 68.3% | $750,899 | 31.7% | 244 | 2 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 14 | The Full Monty | $2,275,190 | $1,656,761 | 72.8% | $618,429 | 27.2% | 721 | 11 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Peacemaker | $2,275,046 | $1,765,142 | 77.6% | $509,904 | 22.4% | 1,674 | 5 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 16 | Men in Black | $255,245 | $200,870 | 78.7% | $54,375 | 21.3% | 450 | 18 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 17 | Air Force One | $139,430 | $104,292 | 74.8% | $35,138 | 25.2% | 280 | 14 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | The House of Yes | - | - | - | - | - | 54 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Myth of Fingerprints | - | - | - | - | - | 50 | 7 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Guantanamera | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 17 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | Broken English | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Playing God | - | $832,298 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Edge | - | $1,167,018 | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Lilies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Turbulent Arts | - | false |
| - | Breaking Up | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
