Top 1998 Movies at the Domestic Box Office
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See also: Top 1998 Domestic Limited Release - Top 1998 International - Top 1998 Worldwide
Other Domestic Cumulative records: All Time Domestic - All Time Domestic (Inf. Adj.) - All Time Animated Domestic - All Time Sequel Domestic - All Time Non-Sequel Domestic - Top 2024 Domestic - Top 2025 Domestic
This chart contains the total domestic box office for movies released in 1998.
See Top Grossing Movies of 1998 for a list of movies that earned most at the domestic box office during 1998, including films released in 1997 and earlier.
| Rank | Movie | Distributor | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Box Office |
Max Theater Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Twilight | Paramount… | $15,055,091 | $5,866,411 | 1,354 |
| 102 | Soldier | Warner Bros. | $14,623,082 | $6,447,237 | 2,507 |
| 103 | Dark City | New Line | $14,435,076 | $5,576,953 | 1,754 |
| 104 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Universal | $14,089,198 | $6,129,615 | 2,807 |
| 105 | Les Miserables | Sony Pict… | $13,887,945 | $5,011,840 | 1,477 |
| 106 | Desperate Measures | Sony Pict… | $13,678,274 | $5,833,412 | 1,963 |
| 107 | Hush | Sony Pict… | $13,587,246 | $5,742,431 | 1,966 |
| 108 | Africa's Elephant Kingdom | Discovery… | $13,485,455 | 17 | |
| 109 | Senseless | Miramax | $13,109,234 | $5,337,651 | 1,850 |
| 110 | Living Out Loud | New Line | $12,905,901 | $169,747 | 1,087 |
| 111 | Black Dog | Universal | $12,857,351 | $4,809,375 | 2,050 |
| 112 | Mr. Nice Guy | New Line | $12,716,953 | $5,250,704 | 1,463 |
| 113 | Why Do Fools Fall In Love? | Warner Bros. | $12,506,676 | $3,946,382 | 1,377 |
| 114 | I'll Be Home For Christmas | Walt Disney | $12,214,338 | $3,898,293 | 1,776 |
| 115 | Holy Man | Walt Disney | $12,069,719 | $5,106,919 | 2,013 |
| 116 | Sliding Doors | Miramax | $11,911,200 | $834,817 | 522 |
| 117 | Deep Rising | Walt Disney | $11,203,026 | $4,737,793 | 1,788 |
| 118 | Barney's Great Adventure | Polygram | $11,156,471 | $2,203,865 | 839 |
| 119 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Universal | $10,680,275 | $4,335,095 | 3,107 |
| 120 | Home Fries | Warner Bros. | $10,513,979 | $3,784,023 | 1,925 |
| 121 | The Newton Boys | 20th Cent… | $10,341,093 | $4,010,245 | 1,969 |
| 122 | Knock Off | Sony Pict… | $10,319,915 | $5,516,231 | 1,800 |
| 123 | I Got the Hook-Up! | Miramax | $10,317,779 | $3,310,349 | 655 |
| 124 | The Spanish Prisoner | Sony Pict… | $10,162,034 | $124,011 | 340 |
| 125 | Air Bud: Golden Receiver | Miramax | $10,093,523 | $2,603,726 | 1,669 |
| 126 | Dirty Work | MGM | $10,020,081 | $3,634,236 | 1,776 |
| 127 | Very Bad Things | Polygram | $9,949,470 | $3,245,853 | 1,260 |
| 128 | Wrongfully Accused | Warner Bros. | $9,642,860 | $3,504,630 | 2,062 |
| 129 | Belly | Artisan | $9,639,390 | $3,454,776 | 630 |
| 130 | Jerry Springer: Ringmaster | Artisan | $9,257,103 | $3,344,022 | 1,320 |
| 131 | Apt Pupil | Sony/TriStar | $8,863,193 | $3,583,151 | 1,448 |
| 132 | Return to Paradise | Universal | $8,352,677 | $2,465,129 | 985 |
| 133 | Firestorm | 20th Cent… | $8,123,860 | $3,849,308 | 2,057 |
| 134 | Woo | New Line | $8,064,972 | $2,517,263 | 625 |
| 135 | My Giant | Sony Pict… | $7,985,929 | $3,117,795 | 1,948 |
| 136 | Krippendorf's Tribe | Walt Disney | $7,571,115 | $3,316,377 | 1,529 |
| 137 | BASEketball | Universal | $7,042,541 | $3,086,105 | 1,910 |
| 138 | Star Kid | Trimark | $7,015,240 | $2,198,355 | 1,053 |
| 139 | Caught Up | Live Film… | $6,754,958 | 722 | |
| 140 | American History X | New Line | $6,719,864 | $156,076 | 513 |
| 141 | Smoke Signals | Miramax | $6,719,300 | $43,574 | 353 |
| 142 | Gods and Monsters | Lionsgate | $6,451,628 | $75,508 | 149 |
| 143 | The Opposite of Sex | Sony Pict… | $6,367,164 | $102,385 | 183 |
| 144 | Affliction | Lionsgate | $6,330,054 | $63,979 | 335 |
| 145 | Almost Heroes | Warner Bros. | $6,175,688 | $2,837,928 | 2,048 |
| 146 | Les Boys II | Lionsgate | $5,974,732 | 63 | |
| 147 | Central do Brasil | Sony Pict… | $5,969,553 | $35,710 | 137 |
| 148 | Palmetto | Sony Pict… | $5,846,660 | $2,876,753 | 1,505 |
| 149 | Phantoms | Miramax | $5,755,333 | $3,065,951 | 1,859 |
| 150 | Down in the Delta | Miramax | $5,672,903 | $1,636,678 | 417 |
| 151 | Slums of Beverly Hills | Fox Searc… | $5,502,773 | $125,561 | 548 |
| 152 | Ride | Miramax | $5,485,295 | $2,513,334 | 509 |
| 153 | Celebrity | Miramax | $5,078,660 | $1,588,013 | 493 |
| 154 | Hilary and Jackie | October F… | $4,874,838 | $92,956 | 300 |
| 155 | Your Friends and Neighbors | Gramercy | $4,714,658 | $340,288 | 246 |
| 156 | Little Voice | Miramax | $4,595,000 | $93,722 | 215 |
| 157 | Dangerous Beauty | Warner Bros. | $4,553,271 | $105,989 | 313 |
| 158 | Meet the Deedles | Walt Disney | $4,356,126 | $2,006,751 | 1,763 |
| 159 | Kissing a Fool | Universal | $4,100,505 | $2,308,145 | 1,754 |
| 160 | Playing by Heart | Miramax | $3,956,212 | $26,669 | 308 |
| 161 | The Governess | Sony Pict… | $3,794,031 | $57,799 | 135 |
| 162 | Major League: Back to the Minors | Warner Bros. | $3,551,208 | $2,087,011 | 2,322 |
| 163 | Next Stop Wonderland | Miramax | $3,395,581 | $123,055 | 232 |
| 164 | Mrs. Dalloway | First Look | $3,263,672 | $90,127 | 91 |
| 165 | Pi | Live Ente… | $3,221,152 | $31,069 | 68 |
| 166 | The Last Days of Disco | Gramercy | $3,024,198 | $277,601 | 168 |
| 167 | Mark Twain's America 3D | Sony Pict… | $2,992,106 | $28,668 | 5 |
| 168 | Freeriders | Warren Mi… | $2,750,064 | $264,548 | 30 |
| 169 | Happiness | Good Mach… | $2,746,453 | $130,303 | 60 |
| 170 | The Mighty | Miramax | $2,652,246 | $87,705 | 614 |
| 171 | Love and Death on Long Island | Lionsgate | $2,542,264 | $78,151 | 84 |
| 172 | Buffalo '66 | Lionsgate | $2,380,606 | $39,555 | 58 |
| 173 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Sony Pict… | $2,361,632 | $83,759 | 93 |
| 174 | Hav Plenty | Miramax | $2,301,777 | $1,102,036 | 417 |
| 175 | Pecker | Fine Line | $2,281,761 | $541,646 | 184 |
| 176 | Chinese Box | Trimark | $2,265,328 | $97,916 | 106 |
| 177 | The Imposters | Fox Searc… | $2,197,921 | $308,767 | 162 |
| 178 | Wilde | Sony Pict… | $2,157,701 | $69,424 | 67 |
| 179 | Tarzan and the Lost City | Warner Bros. | $2,147,114 | $1,110,564 | 1,412 |
| 180 | Zero Effect | Sony Pict… | $2,080,693 | $434,840 | 129 |
| 181 | Two Girls and a Guy | Fox Searc… | $2,057,193 | $649,423 | 316 |
| 182 | Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss | Trimark | $2,020,700 | $117,089 | 77 |
| 183 | High Art | October F… | $1,835,565 | $47,499 | 62 |
| 184 | The Butcher Boy | Warner Bros. | $1,822,193 | $135,606 | 90 |
| 185 | Hurlyburly | Fine Line | $1,798,862 | $164,826 | 84 |
| 186 | Clay Pigeons | Gramercy | $1,793,359 | $167,364 | 297 |
| 187 | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | October F… | $1,775,523 | $39,517 | 163 |
| 188 | Suicide Kings | Artisan | $1,692,872 | $558,081 | 152 |
| 189 | Festen | October F… | $1,647,780 | 36 | |
| 190 | The Gingerbread Man | Polygram | $1,626,593 | $118,278 | 30 |
| 191 | The Proposition | Polygram | $1,622,381 | $61,560 | 62 |
| 192 | Oscar and Lucinda | Fox Searc… | $1,612,957 | $83,461 | 65 |
| 193 | Carne trémula | MGM | $1,535,558 | $59,558 | 38 |
| 194 | In God's Hands | Sony Pict… | $1,431,239 | $555,342 | 131 |
| 195 | Henry Fool | Sony Pict… | $1,334,786 | $40,939 | 52 |
| 196 | One Tough Cop | Stratosph… | $1,313,607 | $651,350 | 415 |
| 197 | Nightwatch | Miramax | $1,278,516 | $585,733 | 300 |
| 198 | The General | Sony Pict… | $1,256,461 | $26,771 | 41 |
| 199 | Permanent Midnight | Artisan | $1,171,001 | $260,562 | 90 |
| 200 | Cousin Bette | 20th Cent… | $1,161,063 | $76,488 | 68 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.