'Puss' claws to come to light of Friday B.O.

'Puss in Boots'Paramount needed top honors Friday as three of the films lead the domestic B.O., like the DreamWorks animated "Puss in Boots," which bested with $9.6 000 0000.InchPuss" ended up being last week's monstrously effective holdover "Paranormal Activity 3," which made $6.5 million last evening.The "Shrek" prequel/spinoff is benefitting in the drought of family films lately. The relative insufficient kid fare has aided has aided youthful-skewing game game titles like Disney's "Real Steel" intrude round the family film demo (consequently "Real Steel" has cumed $70.5 million up to now, for example). "Puss" is predicted to bow around the mid-$Thirty Dollars million mark, possibly producing the record for Halloween weekend grosses.20th Century Fox's newcomer "Over TimeInch showed up in third with $4.3 million. Strangely enough enough, the sci-fier within the scribe behind "Gattaca" of a society that doesn't age past 25 is monitoring especially well using more than-25 males.Friday's fourth visited FilmDistrict's "The Rum Diary" with roughly $1.8 million. Pic has got the Actor-kaira Pitt reprising the Hunter S. Thompson-esque protagonist he originated from in "Fear and Loathing in Las vegas," which bowed to $4.3 million in 1998. "Rum," however, is predicted to land just behind "Over TimeInch with between $7 million and $9 million this frame.And Par's "Footloose" rounded the very best 5, also with $1.8 million, within the third outing. Film has cumed $34.8 million Stateside to date. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com