If you've checked the weekend box office receipts, you'll have noted that "Leatherheads" tanked in its first week, pulling in only about $13.5 million.

I think several factors were in play. First, it was a movie released in the football off-season. Baseball is back, and college basketball was careening towards the NCAA finals. Much of the target audience was probably watching those games or attending them.

There had been a publicized dispute between George Clooney and the Writers' Guild about giving him a credit for substantial rewrites he did, and that might've led to a postponement of the release of the film. But I'm still a bit shocked at the low receipts. I liked the film. So did my co-host Alison, much to my surprise. She liked it as a romantic comedy, while I liked its depiction of the early days of pro football.

I hope you'll support this film in its second week. You'll be entertained, even if it's in the off-season.