| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | $32,891,653 | -36% | 3,024 | +1 | $10,876 | $255,758,124 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 2 | 2 | Notting Hill | $15,013,295 | -31.2% | 2,752 | +5 | $5,455 | $49,419,470 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | - | Instinct | $10,390,387 | - | 2,059 | - | $5,046 | $10,390,387 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | true | false |
| 4 | 3 | The Mummy | $7,418,925 | -25.4% | 3,411 | +16 | $2,175 | $127,523,525 | 5 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 5 | - | Entrapment | $3,781,791 | - | 2,590 | - | $1,460 | $74,993,081 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 6 | 5 | The Matrix | $2,453,642 | -15.4% | 2,045 | -57 | $1,199 | $158,260,745 | 10 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 7 | 4 | The Thirteenth Floor | $2,004,461 | -39.7% | 1,815 | - | $1,104 | $7,445,364 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | false | false |
| 8 | - | Never Been Kissed | $1,162,182 | - | 2,085 | - | $557 | $50,625,699 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 9 | - | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $1,087,948 | - | 1,005 | - | $1,082 | $13,013,938 | 4 | - | false | false |
| 10 | - | Election | $854,684 | - | 827 | - | $1,033 | $12,260,203 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | - | Life | $845,645 | - | 1,120 | - | $755 | $60,598,139 | 8 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | - | Black Mask | $793,481 | - | 911 | - | $871 | $10,646,036 | 4 | Artisan Entertainment | false | false |
| 13 | 6 | The Love Letter | $768,296 | -29.8% | 817 | +36 | $940 | $6,234,097 | 3 | DreamWorks Distribution | false | false |
| 14 | - | Tea with Mussolini | $766,966 | - | 271 | - | $2,830 | $6,498,184 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 15 | - | Trippin' | $600,090 | - | 610 | - | $983 | $7,662,607 | 4 | October Films | false | false |
| 16 | - | Analyze This | $340,411 | - | 531 | - | $641 | $104,269,485 | 14 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 17 | - | 10 Things I Hate About You | $316,272 | - | 522 | - | $605 | $35,961,916 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 18 | - | The Winslow Boy | $305,293 | - | 140 | - | $2,180 | $1,368,445 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics | false | false |
| 19 | - | Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar | $304,245 | - | 63 | - | $4,829 | $304,245 | 1 | Lionsgate | true | false |
| 20 | - | T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous | $284,458 | - | 29 | - | $9,808 | $14,926,845 | 33 | IMAX | false | false |
| 21 | - | Shakespeare in Love | $263,017 | - | 586 | - | $448 | $97,167,485 | 26 | Miramax | false | false |
| 22 | - | Baby Geniuses | $216,268 | - | 609 | - | $355 | $25,508,188 | 13 | Sony Pictures Releasing | false | false |
| 23 | - | Life Is Beautiful | $214,067 | - | 339 | - | $631 | $56,692,964 | 33 | Miramax | false | false |
| 24 | - | Cookie's Fortune | $207,051 | - | 304 | - | $681 | $10,058,311 | 10 | October Films | false | false |
| 25 | - | Mysteries of Egypt | $198,254 | - | 15 | - | $13,216 | $9,720,977 | 42 | IMAX | false | false |
| 26 | - | Extreme | $163,802 | - | 20 | - | $8,190 | $1,021,834 | 10 | IMAX | false | false |
| 27 | - | Three Seasons | $162,878 | - | 64 | - | $2,544 | $1,319,079 | 6 | October Films | false | false |
| 28 | - | My Favorite Martian | $153,964 | - | 371 | - | $414 | $35,945,055 | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 29 | - | Payback | $146,970 | - | 403 | - | $364 | $81,120,430 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 30 | - | Limbo | $139,634 | - | 15 | - | $9,308 | $139,634 | 1 | Sony Pictures Releasing | true | false |
| 31 | - | October Sky | $139,170 | - | 282 | - | $493 | $31,258,295 | 16 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 32 | - | Buena Vista Social Club | $127,370 | - | 15 | - | $8,491 | $127,370 | 1 | Artisan Entertainment | true | false |
| 33 | - | Everest | $123,801 | - | 53 | - | $2,335 | $65,612,988 | 66 | MacGillivray Freeman Films | false | false |
| 34 | - | Forces of Nature | $112,205 | - | 276 | - | $406 | $51,860,042 | 12 | DreamWorks Distribution | false | false |
| 35 | - | Idle Hands | $111,213 | - | 384 | - | $289 | $3,881,064 | 6 | Sony Pictures Releasing | false | false |
| 36 | - | A Walk on the Moon | $109,265 | - | 191 | - | $572 | $4,396,815 | 11 | Miramax | false | false |
| 37 | - | Besieged | $108,725 | - | 43 | - | $2,528 | $516,536 | 3 | Fine Line Features | false | false |
| 38 | - | Encounter in the Third Dimension | $98,986 | - | 14 | - | $7,070 | $1,197,619 | 15 | - | false | false |
| 39 | - | Pushing Tin | $97,872 | - | 284 | - | $344 | $8,261,390 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 40 | - | The Out-of-Towners | $95,280 | - | 347 | - | $274 | $27,661,728 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 41 | - | She's All That | $92,552 | - | 286 | - | $323 | $62,849,362 | 19 | Miramax | false | false |
| 42 | - | Cruel Intentions | $86,738 | - | 253 | - | $342 | $37,738,079 | 14 | Sony Pictures Releasing | false | false |
| 43 | - | The Other Sister | $82,214 | - | 203 | - | $404 | $27,659,005 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 44 | - | Africa's Elephant Kingdom | $81,939 | - | 14 | - | $5,852 | $7,731,152 | 58 | IMAX | false | false |
| 45 | - | This Is My Father | $73,401 | - | 49 | - | $1,497 | $330,568 | 5 | Sony Pictures Classics | false | false |
| 46 | - | The Castle | $69,713 | - | 54 | - | $1,290 | $529,841 | 5 | Miramax | false | false |
| 47 | - | The Dreamlife of Angels | $68,845 | - | 53 | - | $1,298 | $1,425,138 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics | false | false |
| 48 | - | Foolish | $65,064 | - | 108 | - | $602 | $5,671,252 | 9 | Artisan Entertainment | false | false |
| 49 | - | Get Real | $60,121 | - | 29 | - | $2,073 | $558,689 | 6 | Paramount Classics | false | false |
| 50 | - | Doug's 1st Movie | $53,244 | - | 204 | - | $261 | $18,550,936 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 51 | - | The King of Masks | $51,539 | - | 16 | - | $3,221 | $330,126 | 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false | false |
| 52 | - | Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun | $50,778 | - | 10 | - | $5,077 | $13,264,697 | 100 | Sony Pictures Classics | false | false |
| 53 | - | Go | $50,482 | - | 125 | - | $403 | $16,384,441 | 9 | Sony Pictures Releasing | false | false |
| 54 | - | eXistenZ | $50,034 | - | 79 | - | $633 | $2,549,525 | 7 | Miramax | false | false |
| 55 | - | Twice Upon a Yesterday | $48,685 | - | 17 | - | $2,863 | $72,147 | 2 | Trimark Pictures | false | false |
| 56 | - | Hideous Kinky | $45,245 | - | 52 | - | $870 | $1,086,063 | 8 | - | false | false |
| 57 | - | Island of the Sharks | $45,114 | - | 5 | - | $9,022 | $418,528 | 7 | IMAX | false | false |
| 58 | - | Lost & Found | $44,222 | - | 171 | - | $258 | $6,507,476 | 7 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 59 | - | Endurance | $38,621 | - | 20 | - | $1,931 | $137,124 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 60 | - | Edtv | $37,532 | - | 77 | - | $487 | $22,421,087 | 11 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 61 | - | Desert Blue | $13,092 | - | 5 | - | $2,618 | $13,092 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | true | false |
| 62 | - | Free Enterprise | $13,086 | - | 9 | - | $1,454 | $13,086 | 1 | Regent Releasing | true | false |
| 63 | - | Finding North | $5,952 | - | 1 | - | $5,952 | $5,952 | 1 | Cowboy Pictures | true | false |
| 64 | - | Strawberry Fields | $3,347 | - | 2 | - | $1,673 | $3,347 | 1 | Phaedra Cinema | true | false |
| 65 | - | I Want You | $1,242 | - | 1 | - | $1,242 | $1,242 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | true | false |
| 66 | - | Nobody | $488 | - | 1 | - | $488 | $488 | 1 | Phaedra Cinema | true | false |
