TAKERS, THE EXPENDABLES, THE LAST EXORCISM, VAMPIRES SUCK Down Dramatically: Box Office

Julia Roberts, Viola Davis in Ryan Murphy's Eat Pray Love

George Clooney's THE AMERICAN: A Late-Summer Box-Office Bomb?

Anton Corbijn's The American disappointed on opening day, while the holdovers fared just as poorly. All other movies among the top twelve lost ground on Wednesday, Sept. 1. In fact, things were so bad that eight of them were down more than 20%.

Featuring Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Chris Brown, and Idris Elba, John Luessenhop's heist thriller Takers was down one spot at no. 2, with $1.24m (-28.5%) as per Box Office Mojo.

At no. 3, Daniel Stamm's mockumentary The Last Exorcism, which stars Ashley Bell, fell below the $1m-per-day mark on Day 6, scoring $941k (-25.2%).

At no. 4 was the Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem-James Franco romantic drama Eat Pray Love, with $865k, followed by Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables with $794k (-24.5%).

At no. 6 was Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg's The Other Guys with $551k, while the Christopher Nolan-Leonardo DiCaprio sci-fier Inception brought in $473k, up one spot at no. 7.

Next in line was Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston's comedy The Switch with $447k at no. 8.

Rounding out the top twelve were Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee Returns with $433k, Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D with $406k,James Cameron's Avatar: Special Edition with $349k, Vampires Suck with $311k.

Here are a few others:

Michael Cera's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with $247k, Angelina Jolie's Salt with $150k, Annette Bening-Julianne Moore-Mark Ruffalo's The Kids Are All Right with $56k.

Also, Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with $53k, M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender with $33k, Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz's Knight and Day with $17k.

Among the top twelve movies, The American had the highest per-theater average, a meager $615. Vampires Suck had the lowest, $96.

Also among the top twelve, Avatar: Special Edition posted the lowest Tuesday-to-Wednesday drop-off rate, -16.5%. Vampires Suck had the steepest, -31.3%.

Photo: Eat Pray Love (François Duhamel / Columbia Pictures)