Now here's an idea: studios making actors and directors pay for being involved with big-budget movies that could flop and lose them piles of cash.

Sound ridiculous? That's the agreement Paramount Pictures has with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" executive producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford.

Those three don't make the normal up-front money actors, directors and producers get, and they won't make any money until Paramount recovers the $185 million it took to make the movie and the $150 million plus it is taking to market it worldwide.

While a recent L.A. Times article says that this type of agreement is necessary because of the "new economic realities of the movie business," it seems more necessary from a moviegoer's point of view to hold actors and directors accountable for being involved in terrible movies.

Hey, Orlando Bloom ... think twice before signing on for "Pirates of the Caribbean IV."

If this type of deal were to become the industry norm, we wouldn't have to worry about shelling out eight bucks a ticket for terrible movies just because they had big names.