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

Listen carefully and you'll hear the womp wooommp being launched of Universal HQ from miles away — that’s the refrain throughout your day as Tower Heist underperformed its distance to second place behind the incredibly resilient Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots. Faring additionally to may be reasonably expected in films’ shadows, uncover the most recent 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 must admit that we was wrong the other day when since the crowd with this particular film. It’s bigger than my hunch allowed, which i am sorry for you personally, to Jeffrey Katzenberg, to Antonio Banderas and everyone upset by my gross misjudgment. Since we’ve removed that up, holy shit, America, a few percent drop? I realize this nation loves its 3-D animated saber-transporting feline Lotharios and everything, but wow. Anyway, DreamWorks Animation might as well get yourself 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 little more muscular image boost while watching Oscars. Brett Ratner’s mix-marketing awardscast/blockbuster master plan's searching as being a whiff presently it couldn’t have happened with a better guy, either. Ahem. Ron Meyer holding online one. 3. A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas Gross: $13,100,000 (new) Screens: 2,875 (PSA $4,556) Days: 1 Don’t permit the middling per-screen average fool you: As films inside the burgeoning “Get the Toddler High” subgenre of stoner movies go, this is often a box-office milestone. Not remote: Three Males together 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. With Time Gross: $7,700,000 ($36,000,000) Screens: 3,127 (PSA $2,462) Days: 2 (Change: -36%) Not always a poor hold for week two — plus it didn’t even need 3-D or possibly the cat getting a sword or possibly several inside the title. I guess I owe Justin Timberlake an apology now, too. My bad, JT! You have to still produce a new album, though. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.