August 13th, 4:54am– While Rupert Grint‘s film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is now the third-highest grossing film of all times, we have not forgotten about Rupert’s previous films!

Driving Lessons, which stars Rupert alongside the two Oscar-nominees Julie Walters and Laura Linney, is being re-released in Germany on 6 October on DVD and will also be available – for the first time – on BluRay!
The DVD and BluRay will not only feature the film in both English and German (so you can all enjoy the original version contaning ALL F***’s), but also some Extras:

- A behind-the-scene featurette
- Out-takes/Deleted Scenes
- an interview with Rupert Grint (see the screencaps in our Gallery)

You can pre-order the BluRay here and the DVD here via Amazon.de. (You can also order from other countries!)

For more info on Driving Lessons, check our Filmography and read the Rave Reviews!

On a side (or rather, site) note: We will be cleaning up our Gallery in the upcoming days, so the folders will move around quite a bit. We apologise for the temporary inconvenience, but once we are finished, it will be easier to find what you want.

February 1st, 2011, 8:37pm–You may remember some time ago a photoshoot that involved several pictures of Rupert Grint near a truck that were done to promote Driving Lessons. However these pictures were on the small side and heavily tagged. Today Ice Cream Man can exclusively bring you high quality, untagged versions of these pictures for you! You can view the six gorgeous images here in our galleries.

In other exciting news, Warner Bros. has officially released the date and details of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 DVD and Blu-Ray. The release date for the US will be April 15th and the release date for the UK will be April 11th. Unfortunately the feature of Rupert Grint the regular guy seems to have been just a rumor as the details do not state this to be true. However, in its place? Rupert, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson having fun running through the forest competition. Sounds like a lot of fun! We’ll let you know when websites start with the pre-ordering of the DVD and Blu-Ray!

July 29th, 2010, 4:41pm–We have once again received confirmation that Rupert Grint‘s Wild Target has changed the US release date moving up from November 5th to October 29th. This is later than the original October 8th release, but pushed up from it’s second release date of November 5th. As always we will keep you posted on all developments concerning release dates. And because this will not be a wide release (say like a Harry Potter movie) we will be sure to keep fans posted of when the movie will be playing in various US cities.

A little trivia for you. Back in 2006 Driving Lessons opened up in October the same week that one of the Saw movies opened. If the date continues to hold true, Wild Target will open up to another Saw movie, Saw 3D. Pretty neat stuff, huh?

Also if you haven’t yet, please follow the twitter for Wild Target here.

October 13, 2009, 7:45 AM–Our friends with the Movie-Fanatic website have always been very fond of Rupert Grint and supportive of his career, thus it is no surprise to see Rupert featured on their list of Ten Most Underrated Young Actors. Here’s what Jed Medina with tMF had to say:

Playing one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series gave Rupert Grint the kind of world-wide recognition reserved to a chosen few. He is definitely not your usual boy-next-door young star who prefers to play traditional roles given to teens in Hollywood. [...]

His goal to polish his craft by exploring other characters beside Ron Weasley appears to be making headways. He made Driving Lessons in 2006 and this year – two feature films Cherrybomb and Wild Target – will further allow the young actor to prove he has what it takes to suceed in the movie business.

Read the entire entry here, and please leave your comments! Thanks Francaise for the tip!

Reminder: staffer Michelle is currently busy preparing the next edition of our fanzine Grintastic, and she’s still receiving submissions; so, if you would love to contribute something, email her at grintasticonline@googlemail.com!

August 24, 2009, 7:24pm–As any die hard Rupert Grint fan knows, Rupert was born on this day, August 24th. Since it is after midnight in the UK he has now turned the ripe age of 21! Why is this so special? Because now in the states, Rupert can legally drink and gamble! If you remember when Rupert was promoting Driving Lessons we learned that his father, Nigel, had to keep grabbing drinks out of his hands because of the age limit here!  So now, when Rupert promotes Wild Target and Cherrybomb (hopefully that will be soon!), he won’t have to worry about anyone grabbing a drink out of his hand. And then he can head on over to Las Vegas and have some fun on the slots.

On a serious note, it has been fun watching Rupert grow up. I didn’t get to be a fan right when the Harry Potter movies came out. He was 15 by that time. But it has been fun watching him go from this young teenager to this gorgeous, on the inside and out, young man. And I think we all plan to watch him go from a young adult to a seasoned actor middle age and beyond adult.

You can leave your birthday greetings to Rupert in the comments and we will send them to him! Our special treat includes four amazing drawings by Lilly (which you can see here, here, here and here); and the gorgeous graphic used in this post is by our very own Val!

UPDATE: Rupert says thanks for the birthday wishes. He has lots of work tomorrow, and they’re heading back from V Festival. Best wishes from Rupert! Rupert also mentions stopping by sometime soon so everybody on your best behaviour.

UPDATE 2:Rupert made more comments from the V-festival. Among them are his feelings about Oasis having to pull out of the festival. The Sun.

“I’m gutted. I was looking forward to Oasis. It was going to be the highlight of my weekend.”

Well Rupes we hope you still had a good time and hope you get to see Oasis sometime soon.

UPDATE 3: More reports have surfaced from the V Festival, and according to BBC Rupert said that Amy Winehouse’s performance was a highlight:

“They were doing their usual set and she came on in Ghost Town and everyone went crazy. She was on good form.”

The article is a accompanied by a hilarious photo of Rupert with his horse head mask, which can be seen in our gallery here! And, according to this source, the attempt to hide behind the mask was unsuccessful because the fans recognised his T-shirt and his legendary US flag chucks!

Thanks Marite!