CAMERON DIAZ has made one of the worst films in history, according to moviegoers.

In the last decade, only three flicks have had audience feedback as scathing as her new release The Box, say the company who monitor fan reaction to Hollywood movies.CinemaScore compile Friday-night audience ratings for new releases, asking US cinema-goers to grade them. An A is said to signal a long life with a C described as “pretty much a death sentence”.

The Box – written and directed by Donnie Darko’s RICHARD KELLY – scored an F.Ed Mintz, who runs CinemaScore, said: “People really thought this was a stinker.”

The only films he remembers doing as badly were 2006 horror Bug, Wolf Creek in 2005 and Darkness, a 2002 film about a haunted-house.

Ed, puts the poor score down to the movie’s controversial ending, telling the LA Times: “Who’d want to pay $10 to see that?

“I’d love to hear how they thought they were going to get good word-of-mouth.”

In the film, Cameron plays a cash strapped mum who is promised a million dollars by a stranger if she agrees to press the button on top of a mysterious box.When she does so, tragedies start happening – including her son going deaf and blind.The Box flopped at the American box office and scored generally poor reviews from critics.

But the 37-year-old beauty defended her decision to make the movie, saying: “There is no much about humanity in the script and so much we are trying to understand about who we are as people.”

Cameron Diaz doesn’t have a problem playing a goofy girlfriend or an animated ogre, but she also can handle a thriller.

In her new flick “The Box,” she plays a literature teacher. Diaz’s character teaches a class where students discuss the play “No Exit” by Jean Paul Sartre and the concept of “Hell is other people.”

Co-star Danielle Heaton, who plays one of Diaz’s students, was impressed with how the superstar was able to stay in character — even when cameras weren’t rolling. Heaton tells “Extra” Diaz’s focus helped all the students stay in the scene. “She was very professional and had an easygoing nature about her.”

While the younger actors had a difficult time reacting to scary moments in the scene that were later added with special effects, Heaton says, “Cameron handled it very well.

In her first feature film outing since last summer’s tearjerker My Sister’s Keeper, Cameron Diaz failed to bring fans to the theaters for her thriller The Box. Her Warner Bros. horror flick, costarring James Marsden, took in a reported $4 million less than Keeper, which grossed $12 million in its opening weekend last July on nearly as many screens.

Actress Cameron Diaz has stated she is proud of her long legs, slim frame and pretty face because she thinks self-deprecation is “unhealthy”.

The blonde beauty wants more people to appreciate themselves, no matter what other people say about them.

“I don’t think that self-deprecation is healthy for people,” she told Parade. “I think you should have a healthy relationship with yourself. We all have our up days and our down days.

“But I’m not going to walk through this world hating myself because somebody doesn’t like me or doesn’t think I’m pretty or that I should be ashamed that people think that I’m pretty. How am I going to live my life trying to figure out what everybody else feels about me? All I can do is know how I feel about myself.”

The 37-year-old actress hasn’t always been so self-confident. She admits she was unsure and nervous when she shot to fame in 1994 film The Mask, but claims her life has “transformed” since then.

“I’m in a completely different place in my life now and I’m very comfortable where I’m at,” she said. “I’m looking forward to the future. I’m looking forward to this afternoon and tomorrow and the next day and a month from now.”

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A mysterious man presents a couple with a box, telling them that if they push its button they will receive a large amount of cashbut someone in the world will die as a result. Such is the simple premise of the Richard Matheson short story “Button, Button,” which has been adapted by writer-director Richard Kelly into “The Box.” Opening Nov. 6, the film stars Frank Langella as the man and Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as the couple.

“It was always this kind of great blueprint for an act one of a film,” said Kelly of adapting the story, “and then it was like, ‘Where do we go after this has happened?’ I wanted to know what happens to that couple, and ultimately who is [the man] and who does he work for. . . . ?”

To expand the story, Kelly modeled the couple after his parents, setting the story in Virginia, where he grew up, in 1976, when his father was working at NASA, and even incorporating a medical accident his mother suffered.

“It’s one of those what-if scenarios like you hear at a dinner party — what would you do? To ground it in reality, it was like, let me go to the people I respect the most, my parents, and not make it the kind of couple who would just push the button carelessly. To think even the kindest, least violent people with great moral values might still push it, all of a sudden it made the story real.”

Kelly’s parents visited the set several times, allowing the actors some insights. “Obviously, it’s an interpretation, not a facsimile,” said Marsden of drawing from them. “But the more I could get into Richard’s head and see what he was seeing, the easier it was.”

When “The Box” shifts from its elegantly simple premise into a sprawling conspiracy of indeterminate origin before reaching a startling finale of emotional intimacy, Kelly finds a way to meld incongruous parts into a cohesive whole.

The film nevertheless paints itself into some outrageous corners, hinting at who may be behind the man’s mission. Diaz set off a brief skirmish of online discontent following her Comic-Con appearance when she perhaps revealed too much about who might be behind the box and its button. “The funny thing is,” she said, “I don’t think even Richard knows. And that’s OK. That’s humanity. There is no answer.”

Though he’d asked his parents about details of their lives, it wasn’t until a lunch with the actors that Kelly’s parents came to understand just how much of their lives were in the movie.

Richard’s mother, Ennis Kelly, started to choke up a little in a call from their Virginia home. “It just means so much to me and Richard’s dad.”

Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he’ll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we’re talking about the guy who made “Donnie Darko” here. And “Southland Tales.” Isn’t that enough? Not for Kelly it isn’t. His latest brain-twisting tale, “The Box,” hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y’all, so sit back and enjoy!

I first met Cameron Diaz on the set of “Charlie’s Angels” in the spring of 2000. I was being escorted into Drew Barrymore’s trailer by her producing partner Nancy Juvonen – at the time, I was there to convince Drew to play the English teacher in my crazy little script called “Donnie Darko.”

Cut to October of 2001, at the premiere for “Donnie Darko” at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles – guess who showed up? Cameron Diaz.

I was shocked to see a huge star hanging out at the meager after party for a little independent film that had flopped at Sundance – there wasn’t even an open bar. But Cameron didn’t care, she was there to support the film and Drew . . . she stayed most of the night and even though we never spoke to one another (I was too shy to re-introduce myself) – her presence meant a lot to me.

Flash forward to the summer of 2005 – we are pulling an insane 18-hour day on the set of “Southland Tales” on the Santa Monica pier. Justin Timberlake was there and we were shooting what has become the most famous scene in the film – his big musical number with the dancing Marilyn Monroe nurses to the tune of The Killers song “All These Things That I’ve Done.”

Cameron arrived sometime just before midnight to visit Justin – and stayed until we finally wrapped at sunrise. She stuck it out with us, and seemed to really enjoy just hanging around on the set with all of the crew and watching the process unfold.Which brings us to “The Box” (opening November 6!). Getting to work with her on this felt like it was meant to be. The experience could not have been more perfect, and I feel blessed to be so fortunate to have an actress of her caliber in our film.

Cameron is very observant and thoughtful – she thinks long and hard before she makes any important decisions. It was clear that she knew exactly what she was doing every step of the way. She never once complained about a single thing during a long, emotional shoot in sub-arctic blizzard conditions.

I feel fortunate to have worked with both Cameron and Drew, who are consummate professionals — these are two of the most successful and well-adjusted women I know . . . incredibly supportive, kind and appreciative of everyone on the set and around them.I know I’m biased as the filmmaker behind the movie, but Cameron’s performance in “The Box” is extraordinary. I can’t wait for people to witness her transformation into Norma Lewis.

Cameron Diaz nearly missed her big break in ‘The Mask’ as she felt too bloated to wear a sexy dressThe 37-year-old actress said that she nearly didn’t audition for the part of Tina alongside Jim Carrey in the 1994 film because she had her period and didn’t feel confident enough to wear a sexy dress.

She said: “I woke up on the morning of my audition for the part of Tina and was on my period, feeling bloated and not particularly sexy and not wanting to put on some tight dress.

“So I went and read for the part of the reporter instead. That was all trousers and jacket.

‘The Box’ star Cameron now earns around $50million a film, but said she is lucky to have had a start at all.She said: “I was incredibly fortunate that they liked me and asked me to come back and read as Tina. If they hadn’t, who knows?

“I was unknown and they had plenty of actresses who they wanted for the part.”

Cameron Diaz is attached to star in What Men Want, a sequel of sorts to 2000’s What Women Want starring Mel Gibson.

Pajiba, who seems to be on fire lately with the exclusives, reports that Diaz is tentatively set for the lead role while the script is completed. Pete Chiarelli (The Proposal) is writing the screenplay.

The Gibson movie, which also starred Helen Hunt, made $374 million worldwide and is still the second largest romantic comedy of all time in the U.S. (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding).

Though further details are unknown at this point, it will likely be the original’s premise with a little gender-reversal.  Lightning strikes and suddenly Diaz can hear men’s thoughts and understand what they want.  How she’ll be able to leave the house without being greeted by a cacophony of “you” and other lewd ideas remains to be seen.

In addition to this, there’s also a movie titled What Boys Want in early development.  Selena Gomez is set to star.