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...what it didn't achieve. Ferrell, the one familiar star name among the leads in the week's big movies, promoted his film on nearly every media outlet. (Helms told his tooth story on the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.) Yet Land of the Lost was creamed by movies whose top-billed actors are Ed Asner and Bradley Cooper...
...Aside from Ferrell fatigue and near-libelous reviews, there's another explanation for Land of the Lost's becoming the season's first pricey roadkill. After Night at the Museum 2 and Up, it was the third consecutive action comedy with at least one prehistoric beast. In two weeks, Jack Black and Michael Cera will play the dino-comedy card again with Year One. Sony, the film's distributor, might want to reposition Year One's marketing to emphasize its pedigree as a Judd Apatow comedy (from which The Hangover was clearly spawned), and to sell the primitive wilderness that...
...million; $137.6 million, second week 2. The Hangover, $43.3 million, first weekend 3. Land of the Lost, $19.5 million, first weekend 4. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $14.6 million; $127.3 million, third weekend 5. Star Trek, $8.4 million: $222.8 million, fifth week 6. Terminator Salvation, $8.2 million; $105.5 million, third weekend 7. Drag Me to Hell, $7.3 million; $28.5 million, second weekend 8. Angels & Demons, $6.5 million; $116.1 million, fourth week 9. My Life in Ruins, $3.2 million, first weekend 10. Dance Flick, $2 million; $22.7 million, third week...
Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online social networking...
...YOUR NETWORK TO STAY UPBEAT Except it wasn't. Ward's skills and what the company needed didn't line up. Intellectually, he knew it was that simple, but the rejection stung, especially coming on the heels of having lost his job the week before. "You've just been told, We don't want you. That has a crushing effect on your soul," says Ward. "Then as you go out and look for a job, most of the jobs you look at you're not going to get. You're going to be told no over and over again...