The day after Christmas is one of the biggest moviegoing days of the year, so it’s not a good sign when flicks that open on the normally quietier Christmas Eve show a drop in business the next day. But according to early Wednesday figures parsed by Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls, that’s precisely what seems to have happened to three new titles. “Aliens vs. Predator: Requieum,” which opened with a bloody impressive $9.5 million on Tuesday, dropped a whopping 55 percent to $4.28 on Wednesday, Mase projects. Horror movies tend to be front-loaded, so more surprising was the even larger hemorrhage by the adult-skewing Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman dying old guys vehicle, which dropped a whopping 63 percent from Tuesday to Wednesday in limited release. Perhaps those predictions this would be Rob Reiner’s first hit in a decade were a tad premature. Mase says that on a per-theater basis, “The Bucket List” was the biggest day after Christmas drop since 2002, and “AVP” was No. 2. Ranking No. 4 on post-Christmas Day drops is the Oprah-produced “The Great Debaters,” which Mase projects slipped 42 percent, to $3.6 million and tenth place. The other Christmas Day opener, “The Water Horse,” was in ninth place on Wednesday with $2.4 million. “Juno” was in seventh place with $2.79 millon, just ahead of “Sweeney Todd” with $2.59 million, as the newcomers pushed “The Golden Compass” (No. 11) and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (No. 13) off the top-10 chart. In limited action, “There Will Be Blood” opened Wednesday at two theaters in NY and LA with a gushing $66,592.
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