| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 10 | $19,382,164 | +622.6% | 19.2% | 3 | 8MM | $18,315,537 | 94.5% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 2 | 3 | $19,289,935 | +26.8% | 19.1% | 9 | The Other Sister | $8,559,208 | 44.4% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $15,582,690 | -6.8% | 15.4% | 6 | Payback | $8,461,478 | 54.3% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 4 | 1 | $13,711,316 | -21.2% | 13.6% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $5,748,644 | 41.9% | 12 | Miramax | - |
| 5 | 4 | $8,348,479 | -38.7% | 8.3% | 3 | Message in a Bottle | $8,073,098 | 96.7% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $7,072,920 | -26.2% | 7% | 3 | October Sky | $5,861,050 | 82.9% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $4,676,585 | -32.4% | 4.6% | 3 | Blast from the Past | $4,306,093 | 92.1% | 3 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 8 | 6 | $3,848,810 | -44.4% | 3.8% | 3 | Office Space | $3,242,765 | 84.3% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 9 | 8 | $3,126,003 | -23.2% | 3.1% | 3 | Saving Private Ryan | $2,209,255 | 70.7% | 32 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 10 | 13 | $1,215,638 | +36.9% | 1.2% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $685,687 | 56.4% | 19 | IMAX | - |
| 11 | 9 | $1,126,386 | -68.6% | 1.1% | 2 | Affliction | $906,011 | 80.4% | 10 | Lionsgate | - |
| 12 | 11 | $1,077,900 | -26.6% | 1.1% | 1 | Elizabeth | $1,077,900 | 100% | 17 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 13 | 12 | $812,080 | -21.6% | 0.8% | 2 | Waking Ned Devine | $757,911 | 93.3% | 15 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 14 | 14 | $589,848 | -13% | 0.6% | 3 | Central Station | $448,829 | 76.1% | 15 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 15 | 17 | $461,293 | +124% | 0.5% | 2 | Just the Ticket | $310,361 | 67.3% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 16 | 15 | $460,309 | -24.7% | 0.5% | 1 | Everest | $460,309 | 100% | 52 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 18 | 18 | $138,362 | +32.2% | 0.1% | 1 | Another Day in Paradise | $138,362 | 100% | 10 | Trimark Pictures | - |
