Reese Witherspoon continued to charm internationalaudiences over the weekend as Buena Vista International's comedy-romance SweetHome Alabama took $5.4m from 1,527 theatresfor a $30.8m cumulative total. The animated adventure Treasure Planet, which flopped in the US, added another $4.6m from2,575 venues and now has a $38.9m running total, while comedy The HotChick opened in Australia on $1m, which thedistributor's executives hailed as a good start. Compared to previousopenings in the territory by star Rob Schneider, this was on par with TheAnimal and slightly less than Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

In its thirdweekend in Japan, the Peter Pan spin-off Return To Neverland grossed $1.8m, up 41% on the previousweekend for a territory cumulative score of $11.6m and an international totalof $51.7m.