American Gangster - the movie that's a little bit like Donald Trump's life story, only with more illegal drug trafficking and hair that doesn't look like the clippings from a baboon beauty salon – is number one at the box office.

And comprehensively so, too – American Gangster's opening US weekend box office takings are around $46 million, proving that if there's one thing people like to watch, it's morally-ambiguous stories about getting people hooked on cheap drugs and/or murdering them. In fact, American Gangster's moral ambiguity is probably what's made it such a success at the weekend box office – because, really, strip away all of American Gangster's illegality and you're pretty much left with Good Burger.

Sometimes a film comes out that seems destined to go down as a classic, and that appears to be the case with new US weekend box office number one American Gangster – a movie so iconic that Jay-Z recorded an album based on it before it even came out. Pity that the far more hyped weekend box office number two, Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie, didn't have the same effect, although we hear that Chico from X Factor did go "bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee" into a 1980s tape recorder when he heard the movie was being made, which is sort of the same. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…

1) American Gangster (Such has been the box office success of American Gangster that a UK-based remake - British Gangster – is already in the works. It'll be exactly the same as American Gangster, only about a pikey in a baseball cap selling gold earrings that turn your skin green round the back of Kwik Save) $46,344,000

2) Bee Movie (All this time away from the limelight and Jerry Seinfeld's new movie can't even get to number one, making his comeback less successful than Larry David's and less chew-your-own-fist-off than Michael Richards'. Must try harder) $39,100,000

3) Saw IV (The upcoming writer-strike won't affect the forthcoming Saw V in the slightest – rather than employing a traditional writer, it's well-known that the Saw production team just make up their plots by getting monkeys to point at different objects which are then used to smash through people's skulls on film) $11,010,000

4) Dan In Real Life (Advertised by a poster of Steve Carrell's head on a pile of pancakes, which is also a deleted scene from the upcoming Saw IV DVD) $8,125,000

5) 30 Days Of Night (The sequel to vampire movie 30 Days Of Night – entitled 30 Days Of Day – probably won't have as many vampires in it as people would like for some reason) $4,000,000

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