Act Of Valour Storms The US Box Office

Good Deeds is secondIt was a weekend of mixed fortunes at the American box office, with good news for both active Navy SEALs and Tyler Perry, but decidedly dodgy outcomes for both Paul Rudd and Amanda Seyfried. Starting with the positive: US audiences were clearly pumped to see real-life SEALs head out on a fictional mission to take down terrorists in action thriller/Navy recruitment video Act Of Valour. The action movie fired a cash grenade into the charts and ended up in first place with $24.7 million. Considering that the film was made for around $12 million, co-directors Scott Waugh and Mike "Mouse" McCoy will be feeling happy (and wealthier, since they own the film outright) today.Tyler Perry also scored, with Good Deeds coming in second for $16 million. Journey 2: The Mysterious Islandjumped back up one place to third with $13.4 million. Last week's champ, Safe House, fell to fourth with $11.4 million and The Vow was fifth, earning $10 million.Sixth went to Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, which appears to be on a tumble down the charts. The film took in $8.8 million, just ahead of This Means War in seventh, which made $8.5 million.The first big loser of the weekend was David Wain's latest comedy, Wanderlust, which saw Rudd and Jennifer Aniston living on a commune. It took in just $6.6 million, launching in eighth. And yet that was still better than Seyfried's new thriller Gone, in which she searches for her missing sister. That one couldn't find an audience, and ended up in ninth with $5 million. Finally, in 10th, we find Studio Ghibli's The Secret World Of Arrietty, which made $4.5 million.To hunt bad guys across statistics, report for duty with Box Office Mojo.