Super Bowl weekend — when business typically drops 75 percent on game day — is often dominated by chick flicks at the box office, but maybe not this year. Steve Mason at Big Hollywood (which prominently links to my review of “New in Town,” thank you very much) is predicting the top film will be “Taken,” a Fox-released Euro-thriller from the Luc Besson factory starring Liam Neeson with $21 million over three days. My junior colleague Kyle Smith disses it with half a star and it scores a barely rotten 58 percent at Rotten Tomatoes. Mase prognosticates that another newcomer, Paramount’s horror remake “The Univited” (based on a Japanese flick rather than the studio’s 1944 classic with Ray Milland) will finish in third place, behind holdover “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” with $12.5M. Kyle dimisses it with two stars and it rates a 43 at RT. As I note in my zero star review today, the grim fact “New in Town” centers on corporate layoffs is the least of the problems with the weekend’s other new wide release. This hopeless Renee Zellweger rom-com (with Harry Connick essentially reprising his role from Broadway’s “Pajama Game,” minus the songs and good script) rates a chilly 13 percent at RT. Mase predicts this Lionsgate mistake from Gold Circle Films will finish in 8th place with $6.5M, trailing holdovers “Gran Torino” (which has passed “In the Line of Fire” as Clint Eastwood’s all-time top-grossing film, not taking inflation into account), “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Hotel for Dogs.” Mase doesn’t make predictions for the two Best Picture contenders that are widening into wide release, “Milk” and “The Reader,” but neither has done terribly impressively in semi-wide release in recent weeks — and the numbers invariably drop when specialized films widen into less sophisticated markets.