The weekend’s worst punchline, however, is reserved for Paris Hilton’s The Hottie & the Nottie (Regent Releasing). The final count will show that the critically reviled comedy featuring the seemingly talentless Hilton has sold a meager $25,500 in tickets at 111 locations over the weekend. That’s only $230 per screen for theaters that were convinced to book this disaster. That means that, based on an $8 average ticket price, 29 paying customers showed up at each location over the 3-day. In a country that seems fascinated with Paris Hilton, only 3,219 unlucky Americans will have been suckered into seeing Hottie by Monday morning.

Quoted from Fantasy Moguls.

In case you’re curious a masochist, here’s the trailer, available in HD even.

I love that the movie bombed so convincingly, but I hate that it still managed to open in 111 theaters, when movies like Juno open in just a few, and eventually only ever trickle to my neck of the woods. Dear America—fix this.

UPDATE I just actually watched the trailer, and in between the dry heaves I read the text on the page, and I couldn’t not post this:

And then it hits him: June needs a makeover. But as Nate and June become friends and she emerges from her cocoon, Nate slowly realizes that the girl of his dreams isn’t the hottie at all. It’s the nottie — who turns out to be something of a hottie herself.

Reading that makes me hate everything.