36) SCOTT RUDIN

RANK LAST YEAR: 34.

TITLE: The Property Master.

CAREER DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $1.3 billion.

2005 DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $33 Million.

STATUS REPORT: A year after announcing his move from Paramount to Disney, is still in transition. Freedomland fizzled but Failure to Launch took off, and many of the myriad projects he’s juggling will cascade into theaters by year’s end, some with Miramax attached.

NEXT: Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret; Notes on a Scandal, with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench; Stephen Frears’s The Queen; Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, with Daniel Day-Lewis; the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men; Noah Baumbach’s untitled project with Nicole Kidman and Jack Black.

YES, IT’S TRUE: Wakes up at 4 a.m. to work for a couple of hours at the kitchen table before heading to the office.