| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $55,735,324 | -40.8% | 43.4% | 4 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | $48,465,579 | 87% | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 2 | 2 | $33,929,140 | -35% | 26.4% | 6 | Notting Hill | $21,850,890 | 64.4% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 12 | $15,149,598 | +890.1% | 11.8% | 5 | Instinct | $14,436,316 | 95.3% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 4 | $4,173,276 | -26.5% | 3.2% | 3 | The Matrix | $3,690,652 | 88.4% | 11 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 3 | $3,905,701 | -35.7% | 3% | 6 | The Thirteenth Floor | $2,979,600 | 76.3% | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,668,371 | -36.1% | 1.3% | 1 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $1,668,371 | 100% | 4 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - |
| 8 | 6 | $1,586,165 | -29.5% | 1.2% | 3 | Election | $1,240,647 | 78.2% | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,444,643 | -29.4% | 1.1% | 4 | Black Mask | $1,150,199 | 79.6% | 4 | Artisan Entertainment | - |
| 10 | 7 | $1,359,441 | -38.5% | 1.1% | 3 | Trippin' | $831,442 | 61.2% | 4 | October Films | - |
| 11 | 9 | $1,342,006 | -34.4% | 1% | 2 | The Love Letter | $1,166,773 | 86.9% | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | - |
| 12 | 13 | $1,260,434 | +52.9% | 1% | 4 | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $510,523 | 40.5% | 33 | IMAX | - |
| 13 | 10 | $1,221,241 | -29.6% | 1% | 6 | Shakespeare in Love | $395,866 | 32.4% | 26 | Miramax | - |
| 14 | 11 | $1,161,965 | -25.1% | 0.9% | 1 | Tea with Mussolini | $1,161,965 | 100% | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 15 | 14 | $690,998 | -8.1% | 0.5% | 4 | The Winslow Boy | $440,275 | 63.7% | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | - |
| 16 | 21 | $451,169 | +1,972.2% | 0.4% | 4 | Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar | $451,169 | 100% | 1 | Lionsgate | - |
| 18 | 17 | $162,896 | -11.6% | 0.1% | 1 | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $162,896 | 100% | 15 | nWave Pictures | - |
| 19 | 16 | $159,744 | -14.3% | 0.1% | 1 | Besieged | $159,744 | 100% | 3 | Fine Line Features | - |
| 21 | 15 | $86,595 | -57.3% | <0.1% | 2 | Get Real | $86,595 | 100% | 6 | Paramount Classics | - |
| 22 | 20 | $70,132 | +198.9% | <0.1% | 1 | Twice Upon a Yesterday | $70,132 | 100% | 2 | Trimark Pictures | - |
| 23 | 18 | $69,856 | -43.6% | <0.1% | 1 | Hideous Kinky | $69,856 | 100% | 8 | Stratosphere Entertainment | - |
