Maybe you loved Inception. Maybe you felt it was a little too pleased with itself. Either way, all sensible film fans will rejoice that the picture hoovered up $60 million at the US box-office last weekend.

It’s far from the biggest opening of the year – indeed, five films made more – but it is a very decent haul for a film that is neither a sequel nor a reboot.

Indeed, Inceptionis not even based on a comic or a TV series.

How bizarre. With Avatartaking the overall record earlier this year, it looks as if there may actually be a place for original projects in the multiplex.