Paris Hilton's new movie bombed at the box office over the weekend - taking in just $9,000. That's just $81 per screen - one of the worst box office openings of all time. Hilton stars in The Hottie and the Nottie, a romantic comedy also starring Joel David Moore, and Christine Lakin, and the movie opened Friday to $9,000 on 111 screens.
In the nerd-meets-beauty comedy, the former Hilton Hotel heiress plays a sought-after babe stalked by a man who has had a crush on her since they were six years old.
By comparison, Fool's Gold, the newest romantic comedy from Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, also opened Friday to $7.65 million on 3,125 screens.
But even though Fool's Gold opened on just over 3,000 more screens, that still worked out at a decent $2,148 per screen.
The Hottie and the Nottie flopped despite a whirlwind three weeks of film promotion for Hilton.
She premiered the film in Hollywood and Dallas, appeared in Philadelphia, at Harvard University, and the Sundance Film Festival, and on talk shows Late Show with David Letterman and MTV's TRL.
Hilton recently spoke about her acting coach Ivana Chubbuck and what she's learned from working with her. "Actors are really great if they've lived the life of a lot of things happen to them," she said of the acting method she uses. "I've had a lot happen to me in my life. Now I've learned to use those experiences in my acting."
Hilton costars next in this year's musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, opposite Paul Sorvino and Alexa Vega.
However, The Hottie and the Nottie does not take the title of the biggest movie flop of all time. Jessica Simpson's last film Blonde Ambition took in just $1,190 in December across eight Texas theaters - or $50 per screen.
The remake of the 1988 movie Working Girl was labelled by magazines as "the biggest bomb of the year" with an estimated grand total of 48 viewers.
By Nicola Pittam, Feb 11 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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