XXX is expected to pass the international $100m mark by the end of the week after a $12.4m weekend haul that gives the Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) action thriller a $96m running total. The picture opened in Italy with $2m from 330 screens, comparing favourably to previous openings by Planet Of The Apes ($1.9m) and Tomb Raider ($1.8m). It averaged more than $6,000 per screen. In Belgium XXX opened number one with a strong $725,000 gross from 72 screens, beating the openings of Minority Report by 10%, Signs by 8% and Red Dragon by 60%.

XXX held on to second place in Germany with $1.9m and an impressively low 22% drop from the previous week. In Switzerland and Austria it also held on to second place, dropping around 20% in both territories. In its third week in the UK, XXX took $1.8m from 556 screens and is locked in a battle for first place with Fox's 28 Days Later, an apocalyptic sci-fi drama by Danny Boyle. It took $1.1m in Spain, dropping only 22% and benefiting from school holidays. There were also good holds in Holland, down 19% with $500,000, and India, down 18% with $350,000.

Stuart Little 2 took $4m over the weekend for an international cumulative score of $90.8m and after a slow start has a shot at $100m, with the family picture still to open in Brazil. In France it finished second, climbing $13% with a $2.7m haul on 626 screens. Although this is an unusual time to release a family picture in the territory, CTFDI was keen to capitalise on the school holidays and looks to have done so effectively with a $7.9m cumulative score.