The much hyped low budget actioner Act of Valor won the weekend, grossing an impressive $24.7 million at the box office. The Navy SEALs film (read our review), which was directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, uses real SEALs as the stars with support coming from Roselyn Sanchez.

It’s difficult to compare this movie to other action films due to the unique marketing point, but it has beaten the total gross of Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, which topped out at just $17 million. Distributor Relatively paid $12 million for Act of Valor and pulled out all the stops, using more than the $30 million that they guaranteed in the purchase for prints and advertising commitment.

Tyler Perry’s latest effort Good Deeds should brought in an estimated $16 million from Friday ...

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Universal Pictures have signed a deal with Dark Horse Comics to bring the four-part graphic novel series The Secret to the big-screen.

Sshh… don’t tell anyone…

The graphic novel was created and written by Mike Richardson and illustrated by Jason Shawn Alexander. The story revolves “around a group of high school students involved in a prank that goes horribly wrong, but puts a spin on the teen horror thriller.” The official story description from the graphic novel itself is as follows:

“I know your secret.” Tonight is Tommy Morris’s big chance: he’s been invited to party with the social elite of Franklin High and maybe even hook up with Pam, the girl of his dreams. But when a prank call turns sour, Pam goes missing, and Tommy gets sucked into her disappearance deeper than he bargained for.

Richardson, the founder of Dark ...

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