| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Doctor Dolittle | $45,125,665 | $29,014,324 | 64.3% | $16,111,341 | 35.7% | 2,777 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Mulan | $28,297,359 | $17,017,845 | 60.1% | $11,279,514 | 39.9% | 2,921 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The X Files | $19,196,299 | $13,282,430 | 69.2% | $5,913,869 | 30.8% | 2,649 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Armageddon | $18,112,703 | - | - | - | - | 3,090 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Out of Sight | $16,574,405 | $12,020,435 | 72.5% | $4,553,970 | 27.5% | 2,106 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Truman Show | $12,793,074 | $8,505,589 | 66.5% | $4,287,485 | 33.5% | 2,911 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Six Days Seven Nights | $11,542,758 | $7,579,671 | 65.7% | $3,963,087 | 34.3% | 2,606 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | A Perfect Murder | $7,751,728 | $5,273,527 | 68% | $2,478,201 | 32% | 2,438 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Hope Floats | $3,813,890 | $2,435,158 | 63.8% | $1,378,732 | 36.2% | 1,459 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Horse Whisperer | $2,958,487 | $1,885,386 | 63.7% | $1,073,101 | 36.3% | 1,419 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Godzilla | $2,259,302 | $1,458,014 | 64.5% | $801,288 | 35.5% | 1,855 | 7 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 12 | Deep Impact | $2,227,185 | $1,606,139 | 72.1% | $621,046 | 27.9% | 1,617 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Gone with the Wind 1998 Re-release | $1,962,627 | $1,192,593 | 60.8% | $770,034 | 39.2% | 214 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 14 | Titanic | $1,432,567 | $922,618 | 64.4% | $509,949 | 35.6% | 688 | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Paulie | $645,863 | $338,996 | 52.5% | $306,867 | 47.5% | 747 | 11 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| 16 | The Opposite of Sex | $472,795 | $307,802 | 65.1% | $164,993 | 34.9% | 85 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 17 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | $49,582 | $27,492 | 55.4% | $22,090 | 44.6% | 5 | 1 | Kit Parker Films | - | false |
| 18 | Nights of Cabiria 1998 Re-release | $9,178 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Rialto Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Dream for an Insomniac | $5,530 | $4,441 | 80.3% | $1,089 | 19.7% | 3 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 20 | Dear Jesse | $3,561 | $1,508 | 42.4% | $2,053 | 57.6% | 1 | 1 | Cowboy Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Mousehunt | $1,508 | $257 | 17% | $1,251 | 83% | 5 | 28 | DreamWorks Distribution | - | false |
| - | Beyond Silence | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | 4 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | As Good as It Gets | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Family Resemblances | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Leisure Time Features | - | false |
| - | Rendezvous in Paris | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Artificial Eye | - | false |
| - | Maybe... Maybe Not | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Little Boy Blue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Castle Hill Productions | - | false |
| - | Everest | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - | false |
| - | Can't Hardly Wait | - | $2,138,505 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Northern Arts Entertainment | - | false |
