| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | He Got Game | $9,523,314 | $7,610,663 | 79.9% | $1,912,651 | 20.1% | 1,319 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | City of Angels | $8,300,480 | $6,608,070 | 79.6% | $1,692,410 | 20.4% | 2,433 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | The Big Hit | $7,275,671 | $5,751,053 | 79% | $1,524,618 | 21% | 2,149 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Les Misérables | $6,330,342 | $5,011,840 | 79.2% | $1,318,502 | 20.8% | 1,477 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 5 | Black Dog | $5,982,900 | $4,809,375 | 80.4% | $1,173,525 | 19.6% | 2,025 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Titanic | $4,917,197 | $4,011,888 | 81.6% | $905,309 | 18.4% | 2,660 | 20 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Object of My Affection | $4,344,019 | $3,393,712 | 78.1% | $950,307 | 21.9% | 1,990 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Paulie | $4,318,714 | $3,749,568 | 86.8% | $569,146 | 13.2% | 1,803 | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 9 | Lost in Space | $3,752,165 | $2,982,199 | 79.5% | $769,966 | 20.5% | 2,271 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Sliding Doors | $2,176,250 | $1,640,438 | 75.4% | $535,812 | 24.6% | 495 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 11 | The Spanish Prisoner | $1,148,405 | $816,111 | 71.1% | $332,294 | 28.9% | 178 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 12 | As Good as It Gets | $1,129,212 | $872,650 | 77.3% | $256,562 | 22.7% | 1,205 | 20 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 13 | Primary Colors | $703,660 | $550,515 | 78.2% | $153,145 | 21.8% | 710 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 | $115,533 | $87,983 | 76.2% | $27,550 | 23.8% | 26 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 15 | Still Breathing | $110,550 | $86,659 | 78.4% | $23,891 | 21.6% | 67 | 1 | October Films | - | false |
| 16 | Mousehunt | $62,493 | $52,231 | 83.6% | $10,262 | 16.4% | 87 | 20 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 17 | Go Now | $5,738 | $3,657 | 63.7% | $2,081 | 36.3% | 1 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 18 | The Other Side of Sunday | $4,769 | $2,621 | 55% | $2,148 | 45% | 1 | 1 | First Look International | - | false |
| 19 | Amistad | $1,519 | $917 | 60.4% | $602 | 39.6% | 3 | 22 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| - | The Odd Couple II | - | $1,523,150 | - | - | - | 1,852 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tarzan and the Lost City | - | $391,365 | - | - | - | 1,367 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Mercury Rising | - | $1,304,825 | - | - | - | 1,273 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Players Club | - | $1,384,221 | - | - | - | 624 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Two Girls and a Guy | - | $405,467 | - | - | - | 304 | 2 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Butcher Boy | - | - | - | - | - | 90 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Shooting Fish | - | $56,240 | - | - | - | 23 | 1 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wilde | - | $69,424 | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | Kurt & Courtney | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| - | Butterfly Kiss | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | The Gingerbread Man | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | PolyGram | - | false |
