Alexander 'finds European fans'

Alexander received a critical mauling in the US

Epic film Alexander is fighting back after its poor showing at the US box office with strong figures in Europe, according to reports.

Film industry publication Screen Daily reports the film has doubled its $34m (£18m) US takings outside America.

That included ticket receipts of $18.7m (£9.9m) in the past weekend following a good opening in Spain, it said.

Stone has blamed the film's poor US response on the reaction to the portrayal of Alexander as bisexual.

'Fundamentalism'

"Sex is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," Stone recently said.

"There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the US. From day one, audiences didn't show up."

Starring Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great, the movie was the second most successful film in the UK last weekend, taking £1.2m.

In Spain alone, the movie took $7.2m (£3.8m) while in Farrell's native Ireland, it took a healthy $424,931 (£225,700).