| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 3 | $32,943,800 | +173.9% | 41.6% | 3 | Entrapment | $26,126,032 | 79.3% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 1 | $16,447,001 | -35.5% | 20.8% | 7 | The Matrix | $11,624,679 | 70.7% | 6 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 2 | $8,957,305 | -42% | 11.3% | 4 | Life | $8,060,400 | 90% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 6 | $4,721,748 | +19.2% | 6% | 7 | Idle Hands | $2,303,163 | 48.8% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 5 | 4 | $4,573,927 | -35.7% | 5.8% | 8 | Life Is Beautiful | $1,159,653 | 25.4% | 28 | Miramax | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,998,132 | -36.1% | 3.8% | 5 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $2,184,902 | 72.9% | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $1,857,593 | -39.2% | 2.3% | 4 | The Out-of-Towners | $1,404,641 | 75.6% | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $1,746,985 | -39.6% | 2.2% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $1,151,602 | 65.9% | 7 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,379,876 | -18.5% | 1.7% | 2 | Cookie's Fortune | $1,308,820 | 94.9% | 5 | October Films | - |
| 10 | 10 | $1,012,448 | -13.2% | 1.3% | 4 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $403,612 | 39.9% | 28 | IMAX | - |
| 11 | 11 | $678,236 | -27.5% | 0.9% | 2 | Foolish | $588,014 | 86.7% | 4 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 12 | 15 | $512,896 | +76.1% | 0.6% | 5 | The Dreamlife of Angels | $286,277 | 55.8% | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 13 | 13 | $288,118 | -15.1% | 0.4% | 1 | Everest | $288,118 | 100% | 61 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 14 | 16 | $216,119 | -24.3% | 0.3% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $216,119 | 100% | 3 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
| 15 | 17 | $193,648 | -17.3% | 0.2% | 2 | The Rage: Carrie 2 | $107,677 | 55.6% | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 17 | 12 | $172,854 | -51.2% | 0.2% | 2 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $172,854 | 100% | 9 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 18 | 14 | $124,936 | -61.4% | 0.2% | 2 | Blast from the Past | $124,936 | 100% | 12 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 19 | 18 | $104,914 | -43.6% | 0.1% | 1 | Waking Ned Devine | $104,914 | 100% | 24 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
