INTERNATIONAL
Revolution Studios and Columbia's blockbuster XXX scored well at the international box office this weekend.
Directed by Rob Cohen and produced by Neal H. Moritz, it stars Vin Diesel, Asia Argento and Marton Csokas. XXX has grossed about $141 million in domestic theaters.
"It was a very big weekend for XXX internationally," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning.
"It opened number one in the U.K., Germany and Spain over the weekend. It did $5.2 million in the U.K., which is very big, and $4.7 million in Germany, which also is very big. Nine territories opened this weekend and all nine were number one."
XXX, Blake pointed out, has "now had 40 number one openings around the world. We're at $56 million (internationally now), so we're approaching $200 million worldwide. And with Japan and others still to come, it looks like we'll be at about $300 million worldwide."
WEEKEND COMPARISONS
Key films -- those grossing more than $500,000 -- took in approximately $84.28 million for the weekend, up about 8.11 percent from last year when they totaled $77.96 million.
Key films were down about 16.22 percent from the previous weekend this year when they totaled $100.6 million.
Last year, Fox's opening week of From Hell was first with $11.01 million at 2,305 theaters ($4,779 per theater); and Sony's opening week of Riding In Cars With Boys was second with $10.4 million at 2,770 theaters ($3,756 per theater). The top two films one year ago grossed $21.4 million. This year, the top two films grossed an ESTIMATED $24.6 million.