'Tower Heist' Falls To 'Puss In Boots' At Box Office

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[img]http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/shared/promoimages/movies/t/tower_heist/ben/281x211.jpg?quality=0.85[/img][url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673829/puss-in-boots-box-office.jhtml"][b]FROM MTV MOVIES:[/b][/url] Two very different heist flicks went head-to-head over the weekend, and in a surprising upset, a rapier-wielding cartoon cat emerged victorious over two high-profile comedians. In a turn of events that was somewhat shocking to Hollywood, Eddie Murphy's return from the land of family-friendly fare alongside Ben Stiller in the PG-13 "Tower Heist" opened behind last weekend's [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673411/puss-in-boots-box-office-paranormal-activity-3.jhtml"]#1 movie, "Puss in Boots."[/url]

Audiences continued to come out to watch the 3-D "Shrek" spinoff character snatch some magic beans from an evil Jack and Jill in [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/429310/moviemain.jhtml"]"Puss in Boots"[/url] to the tune of $33 million, keeping the DreamWorks Animation flick at #1 with a $75.5 million domestic total. "Puss" dropped just three percent from its $33.04 million debut, which marked an unprecedentedly low non-holiday decline for a wide release.

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