| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $94,163,802 | -15.1% | 53.4% | 4 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | $82,671,711 | 87.8% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 2 | $52,211,875 | +154.2% | 29.6% | 6 | Notting Hill | $34,406,175 | 65.9% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 13 | $6,071,965 | +1,208.5% | 3.4% | 5 | The Thirteenth Floor | $5,440,903 | 89.6% | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 4 | 3 | $5,679,689 | +3.2% | 3.2% | 4 | The Matrix | $4,872,553 | 85.8% | 10 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 5 | $2,611,747 | -30.6% | 1.5% | 2 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $2,611,747 | 100% | 3 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 6 | 6 | $2,249,833 | -21.9% | 1.3% | 3 | Election | $1,684,645 | 74.9% | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $2,209,929 | -19% | 1.3% | 3 | Trippin' | $1,428,211 | 64.6% | 3 | October Films | - |
| 8 | 9 | $2,046,593 | -13.9% | 1.2% | 4 | Black Mask | $1,947,159 | 95.1% | 3 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 9 | 4 | $2,046,259 | -51.9% | 1.2% | 4 | The Love Letter | $1,793,138 | 87.6% | 2 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 10 | 8 | $1,735,464 | -35.9% | 1% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $675,834 | 38.9% | 25 | Miramax | - |
| 11 | 10 | $1,551,900 | -19.1% | 0.9% | 2 | Tea with Mussolini | $1,551,900 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 12 | 11 | $1,530,061 | +33% | 0.9% | 6 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $850,056 | 55.6% | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 13 | 12 | $824,609 | +5.5% | 0.5% | 5 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $520,375 | 63.1% | 32 | IMAX | - |
| 14 | 14 | $751,623 | +63.8% | 0.4% | 4 | The Winslow Boy | $447,094 | 59.5% | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 15 | 15 | $202,611 | -31.1% | 0.1% | 2 | Get Real | $123,926 | 61.2% | 5 | Paramount Classics | - |
| 16 | 16 | $186,507 | -15.7% | 0.1% | 1 | Besieged | $186,507 | 100% | 2 | Fine Line Features | - |
| 17 | 17 | $184,299 | +22.7% | 0.1% | 1 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $184,299 | 100% | 14 | nWave Pictures | - |
| 18 | 18 | $123,936 | +137.7% | <0.1% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $123,936 | 100% | 7 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
