Legendary comedian Eddie Murphy is back on top at the box office as his comedy thriller Tower Heist raked in the most money last night during its debut. Get the deets inside…
Though box office sales have been pretty slow lately, Tower Heist, the Brett Ratner-directed comedy thriller starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Gabby Sidibe raked in $ 8.5 million last night for the #1 spot of the weekend so far.
Produced by Universal, the flick is expected to gross $ 26 Million over the weekend, but it faces strong competition from the family flick Puss In Boots for top honors once the final tally is released on Monday.
But at least Gabby and Eddie have something to celebrate as a good debut shows promising signs of a great box office run.
Top 10 films are:
1. Tower Heist (Universal) NEW [3,367 Theaters]
Friday $ 8.5M, Estimated Weekend $ 26M
2. Puss In Boots 3D (DreamWorks Anim/Paramount) Week 2 [3,963 Theaters]
Friday $ 7.2M (-25%), Estimated Weekend $ 26M, Estimated Weekend $ 66.5M
3. Harold And Kumar 3D Christmas (NL/Warner Bros) NEW [2,875 theaters]
Friday $ 5.5M, Estimated Weekend $ 15M
4. Paranormal Activity 3 (Paramount) Week 3 [3,286 Theaters]
Friday $ 2.7M, Estimated Weekend $ 7.5M, Estimated Cume $ 94M
5. In Time (Twentieth Century Fox) Week 2 [3,122 Theaters]
Friday $ 1.8M (-47%), Estimated Weekend $ 6M, Estimated Cume $ 21.7M
6. Footloose (Paramount) Week 4 [2,811 Theaters]
Friday $ 1.4M, Estimated Weekend $ 4.3M, Estimated Cume $ 44.5M
7. Real Steel (DreamWorks/Disney) Week 5 [2,438 Theaters]
Friday $ 850K, Estimated Weekend $ 3M, Estimated Cume $ 78.3M
8. The Rum Diary (FilmDistrict) Week 2 [2,292 Theaters]
Friday $ 850K (-53%), Estimated Weekend $ 2.5M, Estimated Cume $ 9.9M
9. Ides Of March (Sony) Week 5 [1,391 Theaters]
Friday $ 550K, Estimated Weekend $ 1.8M, Estimated Cume $ 36.6M
10. Moneyball (Sony) Week 7 [1,278 Theaters]
Friday $ 475K, Estimated Weekend $ 1.7M, Estimated Cume $ 70.1M
