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Honestly, I had never even heard of LonelyGirl15 until this year, when Cinematical covered the hoax-sensation's rise from internet shorts to feature films. First, there was a role for Jessica Rose in Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me, and then, a starring role in Perfect Sport. Yet that kickass Star Wars fan can't get work? Bah. Anyway, now she/the show is getting a whopping, huge marketing deal with Neutrogena -- and it's not just a case of product placement or clean pores. Instead of pushing specific products, the show is getting a new character: "a 22-year-old scientist who helps the series' lead characters create a serum in order to thwart an evil org known as The Order."

For the uninitiated like me, who had no idea how evil organizations fit in with vlogger girls -- the story revolves around a home-schooled girl whose family is part of a cult (The Order). So, this new guy is going to create a cult-away. Neutrogena is so nice, to help innocent girls ward off evil cults -- will this lead to a series? Freak-away, of even better, Ad-away? Anyhow, there's a whole slew of questions that this brings up. Could short films start finding funding this way, with characters rather than a carefully-placed product? Would they even want to? I think it's fairly easy these days to ignore what product your favorite star is indulging in, but where's the limit on characters? We always hear about how studios step in and mess up a character to try to make it more tantalizing to the public (and how that fails), so I can only imagine the possibilities if product companies get in on the development.

Then again, it's pretty interesting (regardless of popularity) that Neutrogena has chosen a show about a girl and a weird cult. Mainstream companies don't usually go for the faces/people associated with cult entertainment, horror and the like. I can just see it now -- the horror movie for the next generation -- forget about chastity and the scary movie rules about no sex or lascivious activities, Killer X hates your skin! Girls beware -- if you get a pimple, you'll die...literally! Once again, I say bah.

The good news for Jessica Rose is that sitting in front of a camera pretending to be a bored 15 year-old girl can not only make you a celebrity, but also help you land movie roles. The bad news, however, for this aspiring actress, is that she will forever be known as Jessica "LonelyGirl15" Rose. And even if she manages to win an Academy Award one day, the voice-over following her up the aisle will most definitely begin this way: "Jessica Rose's first claim to fame was as the internet celebrity LonelyGirl15 ... " But you know what, my fat ass will still be on the couch, blogging the entire ceremony in my underwear. And so it goes. For those of you are who are fans of Rose (and/or LonelyGirl15), you'll be happy to know that she's about to star in a new film called Perfect Sport; basically, it's like every other uplifting college sports movie, except this one is about wrestling.

JoBlo managed to get hold of a plot synopsis-type thing (because you know those boys secretly obsess over LonelyGirl15 when they're not stalking Salma Hayek -- wink, wink), and, according to them, the film will revolve around an "aspiring athlete (Anthony O'Brien) who after establishing himself at school as a promising collegiate wrestler, finds himself being overshadowed by his younger sister (Rose) after she joins the team." Well duh, your sister is LonelyGirl15! And she's wrestling ... guys? Is that legal? Anyway, at some point the poor boy meets an Olympic wrestler (Gary Hudson) dying from cancer, and then they mention something about a "dark secret." Like Jessica Rose's career path, this one seems a little fuzzy, unpredictable and not all that interesting. Apparently, it's scheduled to hit theaters this fall -- just in time for Oscar season. Could it be ...? Nah.