An excellent hold for DreamWorks Animations’ Shrek spin-off was enough to keep the Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy  comedy Tower Heist and the latest Harold & Kumar release at bay.

Puss In Boots has amassed $75.5m through Paramount and will have no trouble crossing $100m within the next week or so.

Tower Heist opened in second place lower than expected on $25.1m through Universal, while New Line’s Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas arrived in third place courtest of Warner Bros on a lukewarm $13.1m.

Paranormal Activity 3 streaked into profit in its opening weekend and now Paramount and the producers can look forward to crossing $100m any day now. It ranks fourth on $95.3m after three weekends.

Next weekend’s wide releases are Relativity Media’s fantasy epic Immortals starring Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto and Mickey Rourke; and Columbia’s Adam Sandler comedy Jack And Jill.

Estimated Top 10 North America Nov 4-6, 2011
Film (Dist) / Est wkd gross / Est total to date

1 (1) Puss In Boots (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) PPI $33m $75.5m

2 (-) Tower Heist (Universal) UPI $25.1m –

3 (-) A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Warner Bros-New Line) WBPI $13.1m –

4 (2) Paranormal Activity 3 (Paramount) PPI $8.5m $95.3m

5 (3) In Time (Fox) Fox Int’l $7.7m $24.2m

6 (4) Footloose (Paramount) PPI $4.6m $44.8m

7 (6) Real Steel (DreamWorks/Buena Vista) WDSMPI $3.4m $78.8m

8 (5) The Rum Diary (FilmDistrict) GK Films $2.9m $10.4m

9 (8) The Ides Of March (Columbia) Exclusive Films Int’l $2m $36.8m

10 (9) Moneyball (Sony) SPRI $1.9m $70.3m

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