| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $89,248,852 | $47,211,490 | 52.9% | $42,037,362 | 47.1% | 3,359 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Ocean's Eleven | $30,196,160 | $14,716,582 | 48.7% | $15,479,578 | 51.3% | 3,075 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | $27,169,496 | $13,832,786 | 50.9% | $13,336,710 | 49.1% | 3,139 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Vanilla Sky | $22,038,254 | $12,076,661 | 54.8% | $9,961,593 | 45.2% | 2,744 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Ali | $20,026,078 | - | - | - | - | 2,446 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | $17,652,364 | $7,092,906 | 40.2% | $10,559,458 | 59.8% | 3,311 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | How High | $12,546,060 | $7,102,260 | 56.6% | $5,443,800 | 43.4% | 1,266 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Majestic | $10,125,955 | $4,904,339 | 48.4% | $5,221,616 | 51.6% | 2,361 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Not Another Teen Movie | $9,713,831 | $5,250,880 | 54.1% | $4,462,951 | 45.9% | 2,365 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 10 | Monsters, Inc. | $9,095,946 | $3,801,516 | 41.8% | $5,294,430 | 58.2% | 2,097 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Joe Somebody | $8,059,680 | $3,553,725 | 44.1% | $4,505,955 | 55.9% | 2,506 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Kate & Leopold | $7,568,533 | - | - | - | - | 2,449 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | A Beautiful Mind | $5,930,676 | $367,151 | 6.2% | $5,563,525 | 93.8% | 11 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Behind Enemy Lines | $5,880,687 | $3,198,907 | 54.4% | $2,681,780 | 45.6% | 1,808 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Royal Tenenbaums | $2,646,084 | $1,268,860 | 48% | $1,377,224 | 52% | 40 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Amélie | $1,675,594 | $770,897 | 46% | $904,697 | 54% | 221 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Spy Game | $1,465,800 | $921,570 | 62.9% | $544,230 | 37.1% | 834 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Shipping News | $907,703 | - | - | - | - | 186 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 19 | Black Knight | $838,376 | $553,567 | 66% | $284,809 | 34% | 647 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 20 | Serendipity | $551,417 | $319,623 | 58% | $231,794 | 42% | 331 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| 21 | Shallow Hal | $527,006 | $327,660 | 62.2% | $199,346 | 37.8% | 549 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 22 | In the Bedroom | $494,674 | $83,227 | 16.8% | $411,447 | 83.2% | 6 | 5 | Miramax | - | false |
| 23 | The Wash | $389,390 | $215,098 | 55.2% | $174,292 | 44.8% | 299 | 6 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 24 | The Man Who Wasn't There | $276,515 | $167,989 | 60.8% | $108,526 | 39.2% | 143 | 8 | USA Films | - | false |
| 25 | Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure | $273,318 | $119,199 | 43.6% | $154,119 | 56.4% | 19 | 46 | WGBH Giant-Screen Films | - | false |
| 26 | The Business of Strangers | $238,458 | $141,741 | 59.4% | $96,717 | 40.6% | 60 | 3 | IFC Films | - | false |
| 27 | Domestic Disturbance | $203,756 | $101,688 | 49.9% | $102,068 | 50.1% | 285 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 28 | Hardball | $197,160 | $136,136 | 69% | $61,024 | 31% | 202 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 29 | The Endurance | $175,567 | $110,517 | 63% | $65,050 | 37% | 40 | 12 | Cowboy Pictures | - | false |
| 30 | Planet of the Apes | $155,938 | $75,418 | 48.4% | $80,520 | 51.6% | 287 | 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 31 | Gosford Park | $129,223 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | USA Films | - | false |
| 32 | Waking Life | $126,007 | $37,406 | 29.7% | $88,601 | 70.3% | 50 | 10 | Fox Searchlight Pictures | - | false |
| 33 | Lantana | $124,246 | $66,461 | 53.5% | $57,785 | 46.5% | 8 | 2 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 34 | Max Keeble's Big Move | $116,170 | $51,220 | 44.1% | $64,950 | 55.9% | 253 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 35 | The Devil's Backbone | $115,586 | $60,595 | 52.4% | $54,991 | 47.6% | 35 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 36 | Zoolander | $114,665 | $69,020 | 60.2% | $45,645 | 39.8% | 161 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 37 | Sidewalks of New York | $114,019 | $69,545 | 61% | $44,474 | 39% | 82 | 5 | Paramount Classics | - | false |
| 38 | Out Cold | $107,410 | $79,966 | 74.4% | $27,444 | 25.6% | 155 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 39 | Mulholland Drive | $100,850 | $64,485 | 63.9% | $36,365 | 36.1% | 60 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 40 | K-PAX | $97,395 | $58,035 | 59.6% | $39,360 | 40.4% | 159 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 41 | No Man's Land | $87,252 | $43,301 | 49.6% | $43,951 | 50.4% | 14 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 42 | Life as a House | $73,184 | $43,277 | 59.1% | $29,907 | 40.9% | 74 | 9 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 43 | The Princess Diaries | $72,880 | $35,290 | 48.4% | $37,590 | 51.6% | 116 | 21 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 44 | Corky Romano | $72,168 | $35,676 | 49.4% | $36,492 | 50.6% | 106 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 45 | Kandahar | $65,131 | $33,802 | 51.9% | $31,329 | 48.1% | 4 | 2 | Avatar Films | - | false |
| 46 | Trembling Before G-d | $43,574 | $22,199 | 51% | $21,375 | 49% | 7 | 10 | New Yorker Films | - | false |
| 47 | Monster's Ball | $43,443 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| 48 | Bandits | $38,910 | $22,281 | 57.3% | $16,629 | 42.7% | 271 | 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 49 | Don't Say a Word | $21,061 | $9,634 | 45.7% | $11,427 | 54.3% | 49 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 50 | Moulin Rouge! | $19,725 | $9,627 | 48.8% | $10,098 | 51.2% | 12 | 32 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Training Day | - | $71,321 | - | - | - | - | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Affair of the Necklace | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy | - | $11,938 | - | - | - | - | 4 | Maelstrom Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Les Boys III | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Lionsgate | - | false |
| - | Encounter in the Third Dimension | - | - | - | - | - | - | 148 | nWave Pictures | - | false |
| - | Come Undone | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | Picture This! Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Dinner Rush | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Access Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Heist | - | $62,984 | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Novocaine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Artisan Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man | - | - | - | - | - | - | 86 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | The Fluffer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | First Run | - | false |
| - | Grateful Dawg | - | $8,865 | - | - | - | - | 12 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Other Side of Heaven | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Excel Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Legally Blonde | - | $42,508 | - | - | - | - | 24 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
