Bad Boys ll top US box office

Bad Boys II topped the US cinema box office at the weekend, knocking Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl into second place.

The sequel, which stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, took an estimated £30 million over the weekend.

By the end of the week, it's expected to have surpassed the entire run of the first film, which clocked €59m in 1995.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was still doing good business at the box office, bringing in about €29m.

Both of the top two films were produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Sean Connery's League of Extinguished Gentlemen was third most popular film, ahead of Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.