By Pete Hammond HollywoodNews.com: The Best laid plans. This was supposed to be the weekend that Tower Heist would rule the boxoffice roost and easily claim the number one spot while in resurrecting Eddie Murphy’s languishing career in the process. Instead that conniving little latino cat, Puss In Boots was the one who pulled off the heist, stealing the primo spot away after initially trailing on Friday night. In the end it was no contest. Puss took it away by more than $8 million leading Eddie, Ben Stiller and friends $33 million to $25 million, that was only a 10% week one to week two drop for the Dreamworks ‘toon but a $10 million shortfall for Heist, at least according to analysts projections. Like I said, ‘the best laid plans’. When I spoke to Dreamworks Animation honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg Saturday night he seemed more than relieved at the strong hold and continued business for Puss In Boots. “This is best second week for a movie in 15 years,” he told me. That ought to calm Wall Street which was concerned about the film’s performance , even though it easily opened in first place. Last week heavy snows on the east coast killed a lot of potential business but this week’s sunnier results more than made up for the shortfall. As for Tower Heist this should have done better. It’s just a terrific caper film in the tradition of Ocean’s 11 and The Hot Rock. In fact it all started with Murphy who had an idea to do an all-black cast Ocean’s style heist movie , but as things often happen in this business that morphed into something quite different although I still think Murphy’s original idea had merit. Surprisingly audiences were lukewarm on this version even though it is a lot of fun and critics seemed to like it for the most part. ‘Heist’ got a 68% fresh score at Rotten Tomatoes but only a middling ‘B’ cinemascore audience satisfaction rating. That doesn’t bode well for great word of mouth for a comedy that deserves better than it is getting here. A few months ago director Brett Ratner told me he fully expected this film to spawn a brand new film franchise along the lines of his wildly successful Rush Hour series but that would seem to be in doubt unless the [...]