December 12th, 2009, 3:34pm–We last reported that Rupert Grint’s indie flick Cherrybomb is currently in negotiations for distribution deals in the U.S.A and other countries. For the entire year Rupert Grint fans from all sites/communities have worked on this on-going campaign and we have one more challenge that the Little Film Company has asked us to carry out. The lovely Marcelle with Rupert-Grint.Com.Br first came to us with a great fan project to help promote Cherrybomb by the fans creating videos supporting Cherrybomb in their own language. For example Brazilians would say: ‘Eu quero Cherrybomb no Brasil.’ (I want Cherrybomb in Brazil’), and then fans from other countries would do the same in their language and so on. Marcelle plans to put the videos together and make subtitles. You can send it in to staff@rupert-grint.us or rupertgrint.site@gmail.com and we will combine the clips into one video. The Little Film Company finds these things very helpful to use as they are trying to gain more distribution for this film… so we are all helping each other! We sincerely hope more fan communities from other regions will participate because we definitely can’t do it alone and team work is essential in this campaign!! We have staffers who can speak all languages so don’t worry about that, just contact us and we will hook you up with the right person so you can tell us what you want to do to help!

UPDATE: For those who can’t film anything you can simply send in a written message for us to display for you. Just give name and location!! Or if you want to display a sign with the words that is fine too. Anything goes, contact us with questions.

October 4, 2009, 12:24pm–The Independent quotes Rupert Grint in saying how delighted he is about the fan campaign for Cherrybomb and that he backs it wholeheartedly!

“I am backing this campaign wholeheartedly,” he said. “I’m delighted by the huge support the film has already received on the official Facebook page and other sites on the web and am so grateful to my fans in particular, who have travelled the world to support the film at festivals and preview screenings.”

In even bigger, exciting news, The Independent states the campaign has helped secure a distribution deal in Britain and details will be announced next week. We will be looking more into this to let you know all the details!

Robbie Little, of The Little Film Company, has also been quoted as saying that the campaign has definitely helped. And Lisa Barros D’Sa, the co-director, has been quoted as saying how blown away they are by the support from the minute Rupert was cast in the film!

And even cooler? Ice Cream Man is mentioned as having put together the campaign!

You can read it all here! And give yourselves a big pat on the back because you all helped make this happen!

UPDATE: This morning, The Telegraph has reposted the story initially run by The Independent, and what’s even better, they’ve linked ICM and our petition too! Let’s hope this will attract even more fans to sign the petition: our campaign must continue until the distribution deals have been signed for all continents!

UPDATE 2: BBC News has also picked up the story and has additional quotes from Film producer Simon Bosanquet of Generator Entertainment:

“With a lot of independent films, it is hard to get them noticed,”

You can read the entire article here!

September 25, 2009, 2:32 PM–Rupert Grint fans, rejoice! The Little Film Company representatives have just informed us that they have launched the Official Cherrybomb Website! The site looks magnificent, and it is full of wonderful treats for all of you who have supported the movie thus far, including a photo slideshow with lots of previously unseen movie stills! We are proud to mention that ICM has contributed to the website too: thus the press section includes Jo’s Berlinale interview with Rupert, as well as Ivana’s and Karo’s exclusive interview with Robert Sheehan! Also some of our exclusive videos are there, as well as our Cherrybomb Petition website!

Hope you guys are as happy and proud as we are. So, my dear Rupert’s Army, you know what’s next. Keep spreading the word about Cherrybomb, keep campaigning for the film to be released, if you haven’t already done so please join the official Cherrybomb Twitter, and if you live in California don’t miss the LA Irish Film Festival where the film will have its North American premiere!

UPDATE: For your convenience we’ve add the Malachy photos for you in our gallery. Enjoy.

September 21st, 2009, 10:43 PM–We are happy to announce the new official Twitter page for Rupert Grint‘s film Cherrybomb which we have set up on behalf of the The Little Film Company. We would love for you to follow us so why not get started by clicking here.

And remember the L.A. Irish Film Festival is just days away as Cherrybomb makes it debut, and ICM will be in attendance again! Some fans including our webmiss Tao will be there to represent and we will be sure to deliver you the full report so stay tuned.

Last but not least, we have a much larger photo of Rupert Grint holding up his Spurs shirt from the game he attended recently. View in our gallery here.

More site news and Cherrybomb news coming very soon!

UPDATE: Speaking of Cherrybomb, we’ve just found this Princeton University blog, and one of their staff attended the Giffoni Festival in Italy, where Cherrybomb was screened. This blogger posted a very interesting article about the festival and its importance for educating young film audiences. Unsurprisingly, the reporter was quite impressed with Rupert’s performance:

Those in attendance saw Rupert Grint in the new Harry Potter movie which made its Italian premiere at Giffoni. Later, jurors in the +16 bracket could also see Grint in the Northern Irish film Cherrybomb where he plays, with incredible nuance, a model teen that struggles against the expectations of his family and the weight of oncoming adulthood.

Read the entire entry here and please leave your comments!