If you thought Twilight fangirls were weird, check out video after the jump of Japan’s most obsessive Harry Potter fangirl meeting Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe. Above is the moment when she tells Grint he has “silver eyelashes” and begs to touch them.
Sanma Akashiya’s “Karakuri Terebi” held a contest last month in which 10,000 of Japan’s biggest Harry Potter fans competed for a chance to travel to the UK and interview the stars of the new Harry Potter movie. As a comedy show, they intentionally picked the strangest fans as finalists. A girl named Kana was the grand prize winner. [JapanProbe via /Film]
Other highlights include her wafting Grint’s scent to toward her face at the 1:18 mark. “You smell great!” she says. He tells her she smells great too, and she says that’s funny because people usually tell her she smells like a granny. Jesus, if you could harness the awkward energy in these videos it could power a city. It’s funny, being pre-sex age makes girls do crazy things like squeal uncontrollable and beg to touch eyelashes. Being post sex-age makes them do crazy things like join the Clay Aiken fan club and watch Dr. Phil. I see only one solution. (*points to crotch*)
Is it just me, or does Daniel Radcliffe seem like the guy at the party at whom you smile and nod politely while trying to back away as quickly as possible?
“It’s wonderful. I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing [laughs]. I don’t go on any blogs or chats or anything, but my friends are demons for them, and apparently someone said “Daniel Radcliffe is gay. He’s got a gay face!” [Laughs] I really don’t know what a gay face is. But I think it’s wonderful that Dumbledore was outed as gay … Half of me thinks Jo Rowling just did that to see if she could piss off the right wing, but I’m not sure how true that is. I think she had it planned, I think she always knew he was gay.” [MovieFone via Vulture]
Man, talk about a Dumbledork. It doesn’t help that I imagine everything he says in the tone of “Look, Mother! I made strawbry pudding!” Fact: Ryan Gosling tried to be friends with Daniel Radcliffe and even he gave up after two weeks.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earned $104 million worldwide yesterday, setting a one-day international box office record.
The U.S.-Canadian tally, which includes a record $22.2 million from midnight showings, marks the second-biggest Wednesday opening domestically. Only last month’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” scored a bigger midweek first-day gross, with $62 million in domestic ticket sales on Wednesday June 24, according to Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com.
The latest “Harry Potter” ($58.18 million in North America) also ranks as the fourth-highest single-day gross for a film release in North America, behind No. 1 “Dark Knight” ($67.1 million), No. 2 “Transformers: Revenge,” and third-place “Spider-Man 3″ ($59.8 million).
The first five films in the franchise, one of the most lucrative in Hollywood history, have so far taken in about $4.5 billion collectively at the global box office. [AP]
Meanwhile, box office records weren’t the only records Harry Potter was breaking, as Daniel Radcliffe broke the record for looking like a porcelain doll that rapes.
[Harry Potter tattoos via GWS]
Rupert Grint, the guy who plays Ron Weasley in Harry Potter, is reportedly recovering from a “mild case” of Swine Flu, the pandemic that’s still going to ravage the Earth like killer bees did when we were kids, if you believe what you hear on the local news.
Christian Hodell of Hamilton Hodell management said Saturday that Grint took a few days away from the set of the latest film, but has now been able to return to work.
Man, first you name him “Rupert Grint*,” then he comes out a hideous ginger, and now he’s got swine flu? Poor kid can’t catch a break. You know, other than being a famous movie star and getting to make out with Emma Watson. God I hate my life.
*What the hell do you call a guy named Rupert, anyway? Ru? Rupe? Pert? I’m guessing he gets a lot of “hey, dipshit,” and slaps upside the head.
This one’s called “Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute,” and it comes from the same guy as “Hamster on a Piano” and “Cat Flushing a Toilet.” I don’t know how it took me so long to figure this out, but they’re all written by Parry Gripp, the guy from Nerf Herder - a band whose songs include “Fight for Your Right to Masturbate” and “I’ve Got a Boner for Christmas”, and who I’ve been listening to way longer than any of you, you f*ckin poseurs.
Pac Man in real life. I like how they keep splicing in footage from the video game, in case you didn’t get the reference. [CollegeHumor]
Bruno gets an R rating. See you idiots? Didn’t Nikki Finke tell you this would happen all along? From now on, just shut up and listen to what she says, she’s the smartest person in the world, you know. [NikkeFinke]
The Ultimate Butter Face Test. I think I’ve played this before. To pass it, you have to drink four beers. [HolyTaco]
New Harry Potter trailer. I would’ve posted it here, but I’m sick of summarizing the plot. [ScreenJunkies]
Teaser Trailer for $quid. The main character owes money to a giant squid, you see. [QuietEarth]
New set pic from The Rum Diary. [LiveforFilm]
Official 500 Days of Summer poster. Tons of pictures of Zooey Deschanel - not a bad strategy. Way to steal my Trapper Keeper’s shtick, by the way. [below, via FirstShowing]
