Dukes Are Box Office Royalty

What a strange, topsy-turvy, mixed-up world we live in, folks. If Empire isn't scratching its permanently furrowed brow at the latest turnaround in the Ashes (two runs! Wowsers!), then we can be seen shaking our heads and muttering to ourselves as the latest US box office figures come in. It's a world, for example, where a perfectly decent three-star movie like The Island, with a huge budget, two big stars, a superstar director, action galore and a relatively compelling plot, opens to just $12 million two weeks ago