With its stunning opening-weekend performance, has "Act of Valor" awakened a sleeping giant — a latent, self-activating Red America movie market capable of supporting the production of new m.

"Act of Valor" is a movie about (sort-of) real Navy SEAL adventures, starring real Navy SEALs as themselves. They aren't, however, named in the credits, for reasons of personal safety.

Much has been made of the fact that the new war movie “Act of Valor” features real-life active-duty US Navy SEALs.As it turns out, except for the curiosity factor, there is no difference in ...

Rated R. 1 hour, 41 minutes. At area theaters. “Act of Valor” contains hard-hitting combat footage, relentless and effective. There is a story behind the film that is no less engrossing.

A former Green Beret celebrates one key moment of realism in Act of Valor, despite the movie's negative reviews.Released in 2012 and directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy, the film follows a team ...

The action movie “Act of Valor” breaks new ground in blending fiction and realism, casting active-duty Navy SEALs on real-life training missions in a fictionalized story. But the symbiosis ...

War film Act of Valor took home the top spot at this weekend's box office, grossing $24.7 million, according to Box Office Mojo.  The movie, which stars mostly real active-duty Navy SEALs ...

A blend of reality and fiction, Relativity's film about Navy SEALS stars actual active-duty recruits. By THR Staff Act of Valor Sky Diving - H 2012 Although the film has its undeniably immersive ...

The movie, which claims to be “based on real acts of valor,” begins with on-camera testimony by Mike “Mouse” McCoy and Scott Waugh, the ex-stuntmen who directed the picture; part hype ...

Representing “a new kind of authentic action genre,” according to co-director Mike “Mouse” McCoy, or if you prefer, the same old, same old wearing a bright, shining sales gimmick, “Act ...

Whenever a movie cooperates closely with the military, someone is bound to attack it as a covert recruitment video. That was a valid criticism of "Top Gun" and "Red Dawn," but it won't work ...