I’ve never heard of this before but there’s a dead heat at the top of the US box office. Both Cowboys & Aliens and The Smurfs have earned $36.2 million dollars on their opening weekend. I’m sure that over the next couple of days one or the other will take a lead but for the moment it’s a tie.

I don’t see this as a great result for Cowboys & Aliens – surely Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig would have been expected to beat some CGI little blue men?