The good news for Johnson is that the success is not reliant on the actor boarding an existing franchise – unlike notable past hits such as Mummy spinoff The Scorpion King, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, GI Joe: Retaliation and the Fast & Furious titles.
Medved himself is a serial entrepreneur and investor, with one of his more notable past roles being the CEO of Vringo, a U.S. intellectual property company that may be best known for its protracted patent suit against Google (which Vringo initially won and then lost on appeal; it is now appealing the appeal).
Notable past MPs include Jabez Balfour, a Gladstonian Liberal swindler jailed for 14 years in 1896.
Bright sunshine draws me out of my bed at the Park Hotel, a quirky house built in 1902, whose most notable past resident was design legend Alvar Aalto (he lived here in the late 1920s), and whose most notable current resident is an enormous parrot in the lobby.
In notable past failures, the C.I.A. misjudged how fast the Russians could make a hydrogen bomb, never spotted the vast size of the Soviet germ warfare program and failed to realize how close Saddam Hussein was to making nuclear weapons before the first gulf war.
The dichotomy was literally on display at the Los Angeles auto show last week, where displays of notable past Lincolns were more enticing than the new models offered for sale.
Other notable past residents include the statesman and novelist Benjamin Disraeli, who attended classes at Essex Hall Academy, and the Roman Catholic cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, who resided in Leyton during his later years.
Notable past instances of locals becoming their own landlords attracted many headlines, like the $500,000 purchase by 150 crofters of the Assynt estate near Lochinver in northern Scotland from its Swedish corporate owner in 1993 and the $2.5 million purchase of their own island by 72 residents of the Isle of Eigg north of here from a bankrupt German artist in 1997.
Deeply interested in the roots of human behavior and in the processes of psychological and institutional change, he recorded the illustrious history of the City College Psychology Department based on interviews with notable past scholars including Gardner Murphy and Kenneth Clark, and in 1989 organized the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Department's establishment.
