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Would you pay one million dollars for this woman? Paris Hilton was paid $1 million to star in Pledge This!, an otherwise low-budget ($8 million) production that, not surprisingly, was a box office flop. An investor claims "she broke her contract because she failed to promote the film on talk shows and in media interviews," according to the Telegraph UK. Hilton is facing an $8.1 million lawsuit in a Florida district court, which we first reported on last year.

Dressed for court in a black dress and "six-inch stilettos," Hilton waved at the judge before giving evidence. "I've never had a witness wave at me before," the judge said. (Oh, Paris, you're such a trendsetter!) She testified: "If I have my name attached to something, I want it to be as big as it can be." (You're free to make up your own jokes about that one.) She says that she did promote the film for two years before it was released, but when she was called upon again to promote the DVD release, she was too busy with "rehearsals" for her comedy classic, The Hottie & The Nottie. She was asked it that was a better movie than Pledge This! and "with a giggle" replied: "It was really good."

Pledge This! is alleged in court to have made $2.9 million. The allegedly "really good" The Hottie & The Nottie made $27,696 domestically and another $1.5 million worldwide. So maybe the Pledge This! investors should be grateful that Paris didn't promote the movie any more than she did.

While Oscar was planning to hand out golden statues to the best films of the year, the 29th Annual Golden Rasberry (Razzie) Awards were being handed out to the year's worst. The big winner (or loser) this year was The Love Guru, which not only took home Worst Picture, but Worst Actor (for Mike Myers) and Worst Screenplay (Mike Myers and Graham Gordy). The Hottie and The Nottie nabbed two Razzies, with star Paris Hilton taking home honors in the Worst Actress category (for Hottie and the Nottie), as well as Worst Supporting Actress (in Repo: The Genetic Opera). Ms. Hilton also shared the spotlight with Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore for Worst Screen Couple.

Indiana Jones' return to the big screen garnered a whole bunch of negative reactions, and the film did little to impress the Razzie voters since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull won the award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Wow, there's a lot of room in that sucker ... and it went to Indy? Let's just say Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jessica Alba both got away with one there. Rounding things out, Uwe Boll won for Worst Director and Worst Career Achievement, with the tagline "Germany's Answer to Ed Wood".

Check out the entire list over here, then let us know what you think they got right or wrong. Was The Love Guru really the worst picture of the year? Did Indy deserve worst sequel/remake/prequel status?

You never forget your first love ... except when she's Paris Hilton. Yes, the trailer you've all been waiting for has finally arrived online -- Paris Hilton's new romantic comedy, The Hottie & the Nottie. And you know what, if Paris Hilton was a nobody -- a random actress plucked from obscurity -- then I'd say they found the perfect girl to play the "hottie." Hilton looks pretty damn good in this trailer; definitely the kind of girl you'd imagine a guy falling for at a very young age. But then she opens her mouth ... and you want to stick a gun into yours.

Joel Moore (who I happen to kind of like some) plays this dude named Nate who, as a guy in his early twenties (I imagine), winds up running into Cristabelle (Hilton), the girl he's been in love with since the first grade. Nate really wants to "get with" Cristabelle, except there's one problem: She refuses to date anyone until her best friend, June (Christine Lakin), finds a man of her own. And June, well ... let's just say the leftover creature makeup from Alien vs. Predator was put to good use. This girl is horrific to look at, in a very loony-tune sort of way. So now Nate has one giant obstacle in front of him: Find June a guy, and he gets Cristabelle. Of course Nate has the wacky best friend who gives him tons of bad advice, and the trailer doesn't allow Hilton to say too much -- they just parade her around in one tight outfit after another. The film arrives in theaters on February 8, just in time for Valentine's Day. God bless you if you buy a ticket for it. And check out the trailer above, or over on the film's official website.

Could Paris Hilton become the next major movie star? Stranger things have happened (give me a few hours to come up with one), and the girl already has two flicks arriving in theaters next year -- both of which are extremely opposite of one another. The Hollywood Reporter tells us Regent Releasing has picked up all North American rights on Hilton's romantic comedy The Hottie or the Nottie with plans to throw it into theaters on February 8 ... right before Valentine's Day. Yay! Because there's nothing I prefer more than seeing a Paris Hilton flick and then taking my significant other out for a splendid dinner.

In case you're at all wondering about The Hottie and the Nottie, the film follows a guy (Joel David Moore) who's been in love (or, as HR puts it, "obsessed") with the same girl (Hilton) since first grade. But in order to win her love or a date or a cheap one night stand, our hero must find a date for the hottie's not-so-hot best friend (as played by Christine Lakin -- who, funnily enough, is hotter than Hilton in real life). I'm not sure where this wild flick is going to go from there, but I'm sure we're in for plenty of hilarity and bad acting on Hilton's part. I can imagine director Tim Putnam now, giving cues to Hilton: "Okay, so just look hot. Don't act, simply read the lines ... and be hot." Movie magic at its finest, folks.

Okay, so who watched Paris Hilton on Larry King Live last night? It's okay to raise your hand, we won't judge. Heck, even more pathetic than Hilton attempting to re-invent herself as a bible-reading, anti-substance abuse spokesmodel was the fact that I actually taped the program. Yes, I attended a private screening of Danny Boyle's Sunshine last night and was unable to catch the show at its usual time. So what did I do? I taped it. [Stands up] Hello, my name is Erik and I'm obsessed with watching Paris Hilton embarrass herself. "Hi Erik!" Anyway, I still haven't had time to watch said show, but apparently Hilton mentioned that she has lined up two movie roles for herself this summer. Two! (As I wrote that, I could sense a group of struggling actors throughout the world silently beginning to plot the girl's demise.)

Two weeks in a minimum security resort was apparently "the most humiliating experience of my life," according to Hilton. A fascinating answer, considering she made a name for herself off a sex tape that spread faster than (insert your own dirty joke here). No word yet on which two films she's lined up (or when we can expect them to go straight to DVD), but she can next be seen as Christabelle Abbott in The Hottie and the Nottie. That film apparently revolves around a hottie girl (please don't say Hilton) who refuses to get married until she can find a perfect match for her ugly best friend. Aww, so sweet. Perhaps Hilton can next take the film around to various schools and talk about how ugly people deserve to have sex too. Call it community service ... Hilton style!

In addition to being arguably the most important international film festival, Cannes is also the world's largest film market, where studios try like hell to line up world-wide distribution for their projects, both the finished ones and those only in the planning stages. Summit Entertainment revealed the list of films it's taking to Cannes over the weekend and, while a few of them are familiar (particularly the Mike Newell-directed adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera), we're hearing about most of their major offerings for the first time.

Included on the list are a pair of thrillers: The first called P2, which is about "a woman stranded in a parking garage on Christmas," and was written by the team behind the The Hills Have Eyes remake; it will be directed by Hills editor Frank Khalfoun. The second is The Tourist, which stars Hugh Jackman in a story about "identity theft, blackmail and sex" (attention, my fellow Cinematicalites: if anyone tries to claim this one for review, I will shiv you). Last but not least, however, is a hilarious romantic comedy called The Hottie and the Nottie, which centers on "an attractive woman who refuses to marry her longtime suitor until he has set up her ugly best friend with a partner." (How much do you want to bet that the "ugly" friend is going to be, like, Scarlett Johansson in glasses?) Who, you ask, is playing the hottie? Please -- something this mindless could only feature Paris Hilton. Yes, that's right: someone is actually going to let her star in a movie. If this ones gets overseas distribution, God is officially dead.