Weekend Box Office: November 4-6
Sun, November 6, 2011 
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Puss in Boots - $33 million
2. Tower Heist - $25.1 million
3. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $13 million
4. Paranormal Activity 3 - $8.5 million
5. In Time - $7.7 million
6. Footloose - $4.5 million
7. Real Steel - $3.4 million
8. The Rum Diary - $2.9 million
9. The Ides of March - $2 million
10. Moneyball - $1.9 million
What's that theory about a cat having nine lives? Puss in Boots easily took first place again this weekend with an estimated $33 million. The animated Shrek spinoff dropped only 3% since last week, which is the lowest percentage drop of the year. I think it also means we can officially blame last week's freak snowstorm in the Northeast for the film's lackluster opening weekend. At least partly, anyway.
That leaves Tower Heist in second place with a below-expectations $25.1 million. That's not great for a Ben Stiller film, but even more embarrassing, it's actually way off from Eddie Murphy's last big opening weekend, which was the $34.2 million that (wait for it) Norbit made in 2007. Yikes.
The stoners that did show up for A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas really liked the 3D version (I don't want to know), with 3D ticket sales making up 95% of the $13 million that made this weekend.
Paranormal Activity 3 continued to do decent post-Halloween business. Budgeted at a reported $5 million, the prequel/threequel has grossed $172 million worldwide. Wow. October holdovers The Ides of March, Real Steel, and Footloose also continued to be popular choices in theaters as well.
The Oscar race continues next weekend with the release of Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. The Razzie race also ends next weekend with the release of Adam Sandler's Jack & Jill. We also get a look at the new Superman Henry Cavill in action in Immortals, which opens on Friday.
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