Directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner and with Jerry Seinfeld as one of its four writers, “Bee Movie” has outranked the “American Gangster” this weekend in the North American box office, reports from Sunday said.

Jerry Seinfeld’s story about the bee hive earned close to $26 million this week-end according to Box Office Mojo. Apparently the animated movie seemed to be more on the public taste than the story of drug seller Frank Lucas played by Denzel Washington in the “American Gangster” which earned only $24.32 million in sales this week being on No. 2 spot.

The two movie changed places this week after “American Gangster” placed on No.1 last week with selling estimated at $46.3 million, while the “Bee Movie” collected an estimated $39.1 million. 

However “American Gangster” is still on the top with a total selling of $80.7 million since it was first opened on November 2. The “Bee Movie” succeeded to earn not more than $72.2 million although its opening was on the same date as the first one.

Next following on best sold movies list was Warner Bross’ “Fred Claus” with Vince Vaughn, which came on third with $19.2 million in sales.

“Lions for Lambs”, Robert Redford ‘s political drama starring with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep  classed on the fourth place this week with total sales of $6.7 million.

Disney’s “Dan in Real Life” came on fifth on this week-end box office chart with $5.9 million in sales, dropping with 25 percent from previous week when it was on fourth place with sales of $8.1 million.