34) WILL FERRELL

RANK LAST YEAR: 38.

TITLE: The Indefatigable One.

CAREER DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $1.2 billion.

2005 DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $341 million.

STATUS REPORT: When does he sleep? Shot Melinda and Melinda for Woody Allen, entertained the kids in Kicking & Screaming and animated Curious George, couldn’t find the magic in Bewitched, and stole scenes in The Producers and in Wedding Crashers, as Chazz the funeral faker. Revving up this summer with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

NEXT: Marc Forster’s existential comedy Stranger Than Fiction; Blades of Glory, with Jon Heder as his Olympic skating partner.

YES, IT’S TRUE: Sans script or treatment, pitched Talladega Nights to Sony and was offered $20 million.