After a weekend like this one, it goes to show that American audiences are still very much into the combat of war, soldiers in action lifestyle, as the real life battle movie Act of Valor made it to the #1 spot with $24 Million for the weekend.

With a production budget of only $12 Million, this is pretty impressive. Also impressive, the fact that Valor managed to nearly double Tyler Perry’s new film Good Deeds, which normally pull in pretty big numbers. Deeds only managed to make $16 Million for the weekend.

Also hitting this weekend, David Wain and Ken Marino’s comedy follow-up to Role Models, Wanderlust, had a pretty lame opening weekend with only $6.6 Million in over 2,000 screens. Is it the Jennifer Aniston curse? Maybe.

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After a week off your favorite team is back in action with an all new episode of The Flickcast. This week, Chris, Matt and Christina make up for lost time and get right back into it with discussions on topics like the formation of DC Entertainment, the new Titan Maximum show from the creators of Robot Chicken, new iPod Nanos, the box office success of Tyler Perry, the box office failure of Whiteout and new, or returning, TV shows the team is excited about like Dollhouse, Flash Forward, Trauma and more.

The team also made some great picks again this week including Matt’s pick of the new film Gamer featuring Gerard Butler, Christina’s choice of TV’s Project Runway and Chris’ pick of Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.’s comic Kick-Ass.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques or offers of sponsorship, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter and at Facebook, MySpace or via email.

Thanks for listening.

There’s a bunch of movies and TV programs out on DVD this week so if you’re looking for something to watch, here’s a big list from which to choose. Our best best include the original Ghostbusters, Burn Notice Season 2 on Blu-Ray and the HBO Gulf War mini-series Generation Kill.

Movies:

Friday the 13th (Reboot)
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail
Ghostbusters

TV Shows:

Burn Notice – Season 2
Everwood – Season 2
Family Guy – Vol. 7 and 100th Episode Celebration
Generation Kill – Mini-Series
House of Payne – Vol. 4
The Hunger – Season 1
I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single – Season 1
John Adams – Mini-Series (Blu-ray)
Lost – Season 1 and Season 2 (Blu-ray)
Saving Grace – Season 2
The Secret Life of the American Teenager – Season 2
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon – Season 2
South of Nowhere - Vol. 3
Tom and Jerry – Greatest Chases, Vol. 2
Transformers – Season 1 (25th Anniversary)
Zoey 101 – Season 1 and Season 2