George Clooney, they say, is the perfect movie star. He's handsome, charming, socially aware, a critical darling and lightly self-deprecating.

Trouble is, nobody goes to see any of his movies. You may have thought that this instalment of the weekend box office would be all about Leatherheads, the knockabout screwball sports comedy that George Clooney stars in and directs.

But no - Leatherheads lost out at the weekend box office to last week's US weekend box office number one 21. George Clooney, then - officially not as good as shit films about maths that nobody could possibly come close to liking.