| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Titanic | $29,066,469 | $23,027,838 | 79.2% | $6,038,631 | 20.8% | 2,956 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Replacement Killers | $10,038,744 | $8,046,553 | 80.2% | $1,992,191 | 19.8% | 1,936 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Good Will Hunting | $8,950,197 | $6,828,903 | 76.3% | $2,121,294 | 23.7% | 2,157 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| 4 | Blues Brothers 2000 | $7,195,090 | $6,129,615 | 85.2% | $1,065,475 | 14.8% | 2,507 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | As Good as It Gets | $6,930,790 | $5,029,396 | 72.6% | $1,901,394 | 27.4% | 1,795 | 8 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Great Expectations | $6,619,983 | $5,302,676 | 80.1% | $1,317,307 | 19.9% | 1,906 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Spice World | $4,499,543 | $4,010,133 | 89.1% | $489,410 | 10.9% | 2,272 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Wag the Dog | $4,001,588 | $3,372,808 | 84.3% | $628,780 | 15.7% | 1,586 | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Desperate Measures | $3,779,646 | $3,004,790 | 79.5% | $774,856 | 20.5% | 1,963 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 10 | Deep Rising | $3,192,219 | $2,517,485 | 78.9% | $674,734 | 21.1% | 1,788 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Amistad | $1,285,122 | $958,728 | 74.6% | $326,394 | 25.4% | 818 | 10 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 12 | Mousehunt | $1,149,473 | $972,036 | 84.6% | $177,437 | 15.4% | 1,082 | 8 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 13 | The Full Monty | $505,032 | $329,111 | 65.2% | $175,921 | 34.8% | 263 | 26 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Devil's Advocate | $149,303 | $104,086 | 69.7% | $45,217 | 30.3% | 193 | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Nil by Mouth | $45,493 | $28,367 | 62.4% | $17,126 | 37.6% | 2 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Four Days in September | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Night Flier | - | $91,549 | - | - | - | - | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Hard Rain | - | $1,211,358 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Apostle | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Fallen Angels | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Kino International | - | false |
| - | Fallen | - | $1,283,184 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | True Friends | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2nd Generation Films | - | false |
| - | Tomorrow Never Dies | - | $1,054,449 | - | - | - | - | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | L.A. Confidential | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
