In a small update from Down Under, we see ‘Sex and the City’ doing great in another English territory. It started with the premiere in the U.K., where it did $4 million the day the movie was released and made another $20 million after that. And now the Australian girls are going crazy for the movie.

‘Sex’ had the highest grossing opening in Australia for a romance ever, just a little under $2 million. Meanwhile, Disney’s ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’ made $470,000 during its opening day. Good, but in line with the somewhat disappointing US box office performance.

‘Sex and the City’ had the second best launch this year, only beat by ‘I am Legend’ with $2.6 million. The numbers might seem low compared to the US, but keep in mind Australia only has 21 million inhabitants. And this was all on a weekday.

Videobusiness.com takes a wider look at the DVD and Blu-ray sales we reported on earlier. Being released at the end of the first quarter of this year, ‘I Am Legend’ still managed to take the first place for units sold, followed by ‘Enchanted’.

The sales however, didn’t satisfy Warner Home Video’s Ron Sanders. What else can you want than money? Yes, more money. “We were a little disappointed on the performance of I Am Legend. There was more buying over Easter; still, we are a little behind what we thought,” he said.

An interesting pie chart shows how we actually divided our money last quarter:

Just like in the theaters (grossing over $200 million), ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ is again showing its box office power. For the second week in a row it was the number one DVD seller.

But it didn’t make the first place for the rentals. Bringing in a fast $8.5 million, ‘There Will Be Blood’ was the most rented movie last week. That’s almost 1/4 of what it did in the theaters, where it only made about $40 million.

‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ came in second with $7.2 million, followed by ‘Lions for Lambs’ with $6.8 million.

In High-Definition land, ‘I am Legend’ was the number one seller. Since the amount of cash it made probably wasn’t impressive, no number was given for this title.