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...Meanwhile, two comedy stars had nothing to smile about. Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost, which opened lamely last weekend, lost 51% of its business this frame; it's as if there were an Internet whispering campaign that all the Land of the Lost theaters were swine-flu venues. Opening the same day as The Hangover, the Ferrell film has taken in just a third of its revenue. As for Eddie Murphy's kid-friendly Imagine That, it earned better reviews than his 2008 Dave did - for Eddie, mixed is raves - but registered about the same pathetic first weekend...
...million; third week 3. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $25 million, first week 4. Night at the Museum: Battles of the Smithsonian, $ 9.6 million; $143.4 million, fourth week 5. Land of the Lost, $ 9.2 million; $35 million, second week 6. Imagine That, $ 5.7 million, first weekend 7. Star Trek, $ 5.6 million; $232 million, sixth week 8. Terminator Salvation, $ 4.7 million; $113.8 million, fourth week 9. Angels & Demons, $ 4.2 million; $123.3 million, fifth week 10. Drag Me To Hell, $ 3.9 million; $35.1 million, third week...
Ferrell's latest excursion into delusions of manhood is director Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost, an action comedy with the sloppy construction and saving grace notes of the star's other movies. It's based on the Sid and Marty Krofft live-action adventure show - about a man and his son and daughter who are trapped in a time-warp landscape of dinosaurs and talking lizards - that lasted for just 43 episodes on Saturday mornings in the mid-'70s. The series is recalled fondly for its hokey acting and the aliens whose costumes had visible zippers...
...Actually, the most disconcerting aspect of the new Pelham 1 2 3 is the sight of Washington, the usually impeccable movie hero, sitting at a subway dispatcher's console. The star looks puffy and has a gut you could park a Hummer on. Weighing in at a sedentary 220 lb. (100 kg), he's playing a desk jockey burdened by the usual bureaucratic bull plus a scandal that has put his career in the commode. (In the original film, Matthau rarely rose to anger; he was a weary, wily guy, just doing his job. This time it's personal...
...problems in health and education. But with just a year to go, only $7 billion of the additional $21.5 billion has come through - with France and Italy accounting for the bulk of the shortfall, although that could rise to about $11 billion by the end of this year. The star of the donors is Britain, which is on track to become the first G-8 country to meet the target of spending 0.7% of its national income on aid. Still, the G-8 as a whole looks unlikely to achieve its targets. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...