Shooting straight to the top on its opening weekend, "Tower Heist" stole itself the number one spot at the box office over the weekend of November 4-6, 2011.
The Ben Stiller/ Eddie Murphy led comedy caper film raked in $8.5 million on Friday while expected to garner a solid $26 million opening weekend total.
Coming in at a close runner-up after spending opening weekend in the pole position was "Puss In Boots" - with the Salma Hayek/Antonio Banderas fronts animated film conjuring up $7.2 million on Friday to pace towards a weekend take of $25.5 million.
Rounding out the top five at the box office in estimated weekend totals were theater newcomer "Harold And Kumar 3D Christmas" ($15.5 million), followed by "Paranormal Activity 3" ($7.5 million) and the Justin Timberlake/Amanda Seyfried action flick "In Time" ($6 million).