| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | $56,085,316 | +171.8% | 43.1% | 4 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | $40,840,267 | 72.8% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 1 | $34,897,362 | -42.8% | 26.8% | 5 | The Mummy | $30,693,920 | 88% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $7,917,276 | -27.5% | 6.1% | 6 | The Matrix | $6,041,952 | 76.3% | 8 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 11 | $5,824,751 | +1,585.4% | 4.5% | 2 | Black Mask | $5,647,692 | 97% | 1 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 5 | 17 | $5,717,432 | +5,028.2% | 4.4% | 2 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $5,624,791 | 98.4% | 1 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 6 | 7 | $4,204,400 | +111.2% | 3.2% | 3 | Trippin' | $3,173,074 | 75.5% | 1 | October Films | - |
| 7 | 4 | $3,702,658 | -29.8% | 2.8% | 3 | Election | $2,935,098 | 79.3% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 5 | $3,307,692 | -22.3% | 2.5% | 7 | Shakespeare in Love | $948,481 | 28.7% | 23 | Miramax | - |
| 9 | 16 | $2,384,106 | +1,500.8% | 1.8% | 3 | Tea with Mussolini | $2,315,458 | 97.1% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 10 | 8 | $1,683,625 | -12% | 1.3% | 5 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $1,098,532 | 65.2% | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 11 | 6 | $1,238,653 | -43.5% | 1% | 5 | Go | $400,596 | 32.3% | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 12 | 9 | $869,946 | -25.7% | 0.7% | 3 | Forces of Nature | $580,760 | 66.8% | 9 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 13 | 10 | $788,163 | +34.3% | 0.6% | 3 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $496,086 | 62.9% | 30 | IMAX | - |
| 14 | 12 | $462,857 | +34.5% | 0.4% | 4 | The Winslow Boy | $170,262 | 36.8% | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 15 | 13 | $380,398 | +15.1% | 0.3% | 1 | Everest | $380,398 | 100% | 63 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | - |
| 17 | 20 | $110,987 | +53.2% | <0.1% | 1 | Get Real | $110,987 | 100% | 3 | Paramount Classics | - |
| 18 | 15 | $106,917 | -30.3% | <0.1% | 1 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $106,917 | 100% | 11 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - |
| 19 | 14 | $84,019 | -47.6% | <0.1% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $84,019 | 100% | 5 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
