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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ” The Day The Earth Stood Still ” took command of the overseas market during the weekend, selling $39 million worth of tickets in 90 countries.

Fox said it is projecting No. 1 market shares for the day-and-date release in 53 of the 90 markets.

Russia , with $5.6 million, was “Earth’s” biggest No. 1 supporter, followed by the U.K. ($4.1 million), Spain ($2.9 million) and Italy ($2.5 million).

France ($3.3 million), Mexico ($2.9 million) and Germany ($2.7 million) welcomed the remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic in second place. In each of these countries, ” Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ” opened at No. 1.

The cartoon sequel registered a weekend gross of $33.6 million from 46 territories, lifting its foreign gross to $172.7 million. In all, ” Madagascar 2 ” opened in 11 new markets, topped by Brazil ’s $4 million bow at No. 1.

James Bond also remained a force at the international box office , with “Quantum of Solace” raising its overseas total to $367 million after a weekend take of $5.2 million from 70 markets.

“Bolt” pulled in $4.1 million from 11 countries (foreign total: $28 million). Disney stablemate “WALL-E,” playing its final territory, held the No. 1 position for a second weekend in Japan , tallying $4 million for a market total of $12 million. Its international total has reached $276.8 million.

Also during the weekend, “Four Christmases” brought in $3.8 million from 18 markets, holding at No. 3 in the U.K. with $1.7 million. Its international gross is $15.7 million.

Other foreign totals: “ Burn After Reading ,” $78.5 million; ” Body of Lies,” $58 million; ” High School Musical 3: Senior Year ,” $145.3 million.

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A cigarette maker and a smoker’s widow squared off at the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the third time over a $79.5 million punitive damages award, but the real battle was between the justices and their counterparts on Oregon’s high court.

Twice before, the Supreme Court has struck down the judgment against Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA and ordered the Oregon court to take another look at the case. Each time, the Oregon high court has upheld the award to Mayola Williams, the widow of a longtime smoker of Philip Morris’ Marlboro brand.

In its latest appeal, Philip Morris contended the Oregon judges were essentially thumbing their noses at the Supreme Court. “We’re here today because the Oregon court failed to follow this court’s decision,” Philip Morris’ lawyer, Stephen Shapiro, told the justices.

Justice Stephen Breyer, who sided with Philip Morris in its last round, was more skeptical of the cigarette maker’s arguments Wednesday.

At first, Breyer said, “I thought this was a runaround. I’m not sure I think that now.”

At the same time, however, the justices worried that state courts could ignore Supreme Court rulings on constitutional issues.

“How do we guard against making constitutional decisions which are simply going to be nullified by some clever device?” Justice David Souter asked.

Robert Peck, Williams’ lawyer, tried to allay the concern. “There was no sandbagging here,” Peck said. “The Oregon Supreme Court did not act in bad faith.”

Long before Paris Hilton, there was Sunny von Bülow: rich, blond, a fixture of upper-crust New York and Newport, the very definition of a glamorous 1950s socialite.

And with her death Dec. 6 after nearly 28 years in a persistent vegetative state – a coma-like condition her husband was accused of causing with a shot of insulin intended to kill her – von Bülow, 76, will remain forever n enigma.

Born Martha Sharp Crawford – and nicknamed “Sunny” for her cheerful disposition – Bülow inherited an estimated $75 million fortune from her father, energy magnate George Crawford.
With a beauty that earned comparisons to Grace Kelly and a party budget seemingly without limit, she become one of the most sought-after women in New York City. An Austrian prince, Alfred von Auersperg, caught her eye while von Bülow was traveling with her mother in Europe at age 24. They married and had a daughter, Ala, and a son, Alexander, before divorcing in 1965

A year later, Sunny wed Claus von Bülow, a Danish businessman who ran in the same circles as oil billionaire J. Paul Getty. They had their own daughter, Cosima, but it wasn’t long before their rocky union led to scandal.

In 1980, Sunny – who suffered from hypoglycemia – was found unconscious on the floor of the couple’s Newport, R.I. mansion, Clarendon Court. The mother of three would never wake up.

Two years later, following a sensational trial that featured testimony from his mistress, the darkly handsome Claus was convicted of twice trying to kill his wife by injecting her with insulin to lower her blood sugar.

In a stunning turn-around, he was granted a second trial on appeal and was acquitted in 1985. 

The scandal received international media attention and was portrayed on screen in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune, starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. (Irons won an Oscar for his chilly portrayal of Claus.)

After 28 years in a coma – during which she was fed through a tube in a private hospital room surrounded by fresh flowers and photos of her children, according to the New York Times – Sunny died Saturday in a Manhattan nursing home at age 76.

“I’m sure Claus is very sad,” his lawyer Alan Dershowitz told the Associated Press. “[It’s] a sad ending to a sad tragedy that some people tried to turn into a crime. It was never a crime.”

A large shareholder in DineEquity Inc., the parent to Applebee’s and IHOP, filed forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday to take a more active role in the restaurant company.

Shares of DineEquity rose more than 30 percent to close Friday at $15.70.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based Southeastern Asset Management Inc. said in its forms that it converted its ownership filing status from the benign 13G, which is required of all shareholders that own more than 5 percent of a company, to a 13D, which typically denotes a more active investor stance.

With its 18.4-percent stake in DineEquity, Southeastern said it already has talked with DineEquity’s management, “and will have additional conversations with management or third parties regarding opportunities to maximize the value of the company for all shareholders.”

DineEquity, which has seen its stock price fall nearly 64 percent this year, has been saddled with the turnaround of casual-dining chain Applebee’s, which it acquired in late 2007 in a deal valued at about $2 billion. The company still holds a large amount of debt from the transaction, which helped widen its latest-quarter loss. The company posted a net loss of $16.4 million, or 98 cents per share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30, versus a year-ago loss of $11.6 million, or 69 cents per share. Its latest-quarter revenue increased to $391.2 million from $91.4 million a year ago, which was prior to the Applebee’s acquisition.

In a statement to Nation’s Restaurant News on Friday, DineEquity said that the company “maintains an active dialogue with our investors and welcomes their views and ideas.”

“We carefully consider and, where deemed appropriate, act on investor suggestions and comments,” the statement continued. ”We remain focused on revitalizing and restructuring the Applebee’s business as well as continuing IHOP’s momentum, and we will continue to evaluate all avenues for creating long-term value that are in the best interest of our shareholders.”

DineEquity operates or franchises 3,400 restaurants under its two brands.

In September, Texas judge Charlie Baird sentenced a woman to ten years’ probation for injury to a child by omission. The woman, twenty-year-old Felicia Salazar, admitted that she had failed to protect her 19-month-old child from a brutal beating by the child’s father, Robert Alvarado, and that she had failed to seek medical care for the child’s injuries, which included broken bones. In addition to other, more ordinary probation conditions (including 100 hours of community service and psychological counseling), the judge ordered Salazar not to conceive and bear a child while on probation.

Notwithstanding the case law recognizing a fundamental right to determine one’s reproductive life, Judge Baird asserted that this unusual probation condition was an appropriate one. He explained, first, that the law gives him a great deal of discretion to set any reasonable probation condition. Second, he stated that he could unquestionably have sentenced Salazar to a prison term, during which she would not have been able to reproduce. Therefore, he suggested, he had effectively imposed a less severe version of what would have been a permissible prison sentence by ordering the probationer not to have a child.

Before assessing the constitutional legitimacy of the probation condition imposed, it is useful to take a closer look at the judge’s own arguments. First, though Texas law does give a judge considerable discretion in setting conditions of probation, this fact does not relieve him of the obligation to obey the dictates of the U.S. Constitution. If one may not deprive a person of her right to procreate as punishment for a crime, then a judge who does so has violated the law, regardless of what Texas statutes purport to authorize.

Second, on the question of Salazar’s not being able to procreate inside a prison anyway, such an argument may prove too much. There are many things that one cannot do inside a prison – including organizing a rally to protest an unfair law – that do not thereby become fair game as a probation condition.

The inability to procreate in prison is, to some degree, an incidental byproduct of confinement. To make it, instead, a deliberate and targeted intervention in an otherwise free person’s life is quite a different matter. Indeed, the death penalty incidentally eliminates a condemned person’s ability to do anything, once dead, but this does not mean that every deprivation that falls short of death (including compelled fasting, the removal of limbs, or a refusal to permit any expression of ideas) is necessarily acceptable.

The judge’s assumptions about his authority to prohibit Salazar from conceiving a child are therefore questionable. Nonetheless, we might ask, should a judge be able to order a person not to conceive?

Ricki Lake has trimmed 140lbs. from her all-time top weight of 270 pounds – and says she is holding steady.

“I can’t believe I was a fat person for most of my life,” the former talk show host, rocking a sexy black Herve Leger dress (size small), told PEOPLE at a recent benefit for the New Space for Women’s Health, a New York City birthing center slated to open in 2010.

“I didn’t have surgery and I worked hard. There’s no secret. I’m active. I watch what I eat,” Lake, 40, adds.

But she’s certainly not immune to the pressure to stay thin. “According to Hollywood standards, I’m not a thin girl. I’m a normal girl,” says the mom of two boys, Milo, 11, and Owen, 6. “I don’t want to perpetuate that obsession but yet I am also guilty of wanting … to lose weight.”

“I’m just grateful that I have sons and not daughters because it’s that much harder,” she says.

Lake sticks to meals delivered by a service called Fresh Dining (”It’s organic, it’s fresh, and I still love it,” she says) but admits unpredictable factors in life could one day interfere.

“With the weight stuff I don’t have any answers,” she says. “Something tragic in my life could happen and I could balloon and gain weight. I can’t promise I will be like this forever.”

Recently, Lake has been focusing on making a sequel to her 2007 documentary The Business of Being Born, and is working on a guide to pregnancy, due out in May.

And with the holidays in full swing? “I will be really conscious because I have this book coming out and I want to look great,” she says. “I don’t need to lose anymore weight. [But] I don’t want to go backwards. So I’m not going to pig out this Christmas.”

Amid less-than-jolly projections for holiday spending, restaurants are wrapping their gift cards with extra perks to tempt shoppers.

Many chains are offering such rewards as free food and separate gift cards for purchasers and independent restaurants are even banding together to offer gift cards, all in the face of forecasts for a weak holiday shopping season. This year the National Retail Federation expects total holiday gift card sales to decline more than 5 percent from last year. The federation added in a survey released last month that nearly 11 percent of consumers said they would rather shop for bargain-priced merchandise.

Restaurants are responding: Buyers of $100 in California Pizza Kitchen gift cards will each receive a $20 CPK Rewards Card; T.G.I. Friday’s is giving away $5 Bonus Bites cards with each $25 gift card purchase; and IHOP is handing out $5 coupons to any customer who buys a $25 gift card.

Higher-end chains are using a similar strategy. Ruth’s Chris Steak House said on its website that customers who buy at least $250 in gift cards will receive 10 percent of their purchase price in a bonus card. Another steakhouse operator, The Capital Grille, is offering the same deal for purchasers of at least $500 in gift cards.

Higher-end chains are using a similar strategy. Ruth’s Chris Steak House said on its website that customers who buy at least $250 in gift cards will receive 10 percent of their purchase price in a bonus card. Another steakhouse operator, The Capital Grille, is offering the same deal for purchasers of at least $500 in gift cards.

Others are offering free food or other items. Papa John’s Pizza is giving a certificate for a free medium one-topping pizza to each customer who buys a $25 gift card, and BJ’s Restaurants is handing out special edition pint glasses to purchasers of $50 gift cards. At Jamba Juice, customers who buy a $25 Jambacard can get a free 16-ounce smoothie or 12-ounce breakfast item.

Smaller operators also are looking to score in the gift card game. Union Square Hospitality Group, whose portfolio includes such well-known New York restaurants as Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern and Eleven Madison Park, is partnering with American Express in its holiday gift card promotion. Customers who use their AmEx cards to buy a $100 gift card will receive a $25 bonus card, USHG said.