Weekend Receipts: Puss in Boots Claws its Long Ago to First

Listen carefully and you will hear the womp wooommp being released of Universal HQ from miles away — that’s the refrain during the day as Tower Heist underperformed its distance to second place behind the incredibly resilient Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots. Faring in addition to might be reasonably expected both in films’ shadows, discover the latest Harold & Kumar installment. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Puss in Boots Gross: $33,000,000 ($75,500,000) Screens: 3,963 (PSA $8,927) Days: 2 (Change: -2%) First, I have to admit which i was wrong a week ago when covering the crowd with this film. It’s larger than my hunch permitted, and that i apologize for you, to Jeffrey Katzenberg, to Antonio Banderas and everybody upset by my gross misjudgment. Since we’ve removed that up, holy shit, America, a couple percent drop? I understand this nation loves its 3-D animated saber-carrying feline Lotharios and everything, but wow. Anyway, DreamWorks Animation may as well obtain a Donkey spinoff going, because… 2. Tower Heist Gross: $25,100,000 (new) Screens: 3,367 (PSA $7,454) Days: 1 …Eddie Murphy needs a bit more muscular image boost in front of the Academy awards. Brett Ratner’s mix-marketing awardscast/blockbuster master plan's searching just like a whiff presently it couldn’t have happened to some better guy, either. Ahem. Ron Meyer holding online one. 3. A Really Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas Gross: $13,100,000 (new) Screens: 2,875 (PSA $4,556) Days: 1 Don’t allow the middling per-screen average fool you: As films within the burgeoning “Get the Toddler High” subgenre of stoner movies go, this can be a box-office milestone. Not far off: Three Males along with a Crack Baby. In 3-D! 4. Paranormal Activity 3 Gross: $8,500,000 ($95,300,000) Screens: 3,286 (PSA $2,586) Days: 3 (Change: -54%) Whatever. 5. Over Time Gross: $7,700,000 ($36,000,000) Screens: 3,127 (PSA $2,462) Days: 2 (Change: -36%) Not necessarily a bad hold for week two — also it didn’t even need 3-D or perhaps a cat having a sword or perhaps a number within the title. I suppose I owe Justin Timberlake an apology now, too. My bad, JT! You need to still create a new album, though. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.