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British GQ, Riley, Oscar(!) & more Tom Felton in print

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As we mentioned in our previous post, Tom is featured in the August issue of GQ, the British version. While we’ve already seen most of the quotes from the small blurb on him, it is interesting to note that he’s read Dramione fan fiction… and didn’t seem turned off by it.

Thanks to Tomsgal for the scan. Click on the pic for easier reading pleasure.

In other print related photo news, Snitchseeker received the following scan taken of a random Canadian newspaper. It includes three new photos from his Canadian press junket shoot that we kept you up to date on during Feltbeats Live Blog HBP premiere coverage. Do you know which newspaper this is from? Leave a comment and let us know.

And to keep those rumors of Tom being Riley in Twilight’s third installment Eclipse alive, we have this short article from today’s Hollywood Crush. Oscar, what?

Maybe its his boyish good looks, his charming smile or his perfectly mastered snarl, but there’s something about Tom Felton that makes us want more. The “Harry Potter” star is sure to wow audiences with his tortured portrayal of Draco Malfoy in tomorrow’s (!) “Half-Blood Prince” and maybe even earn some Oscar buzz now that the Academy Awards have opened themselves up to 10 nominees.

But, there is a different sort of buzz going on from a fan circuit often found opposing “Harry Potter”: “Twilight” fans are clamoring for Tom to play Victoria’s lackey Riley in 2010’s “Eclipse.”

Tom isn’t the first guy “Twilight” fans have latched onto for the role. First Melissa Rosenberg, screenplay scribe for “The Twilight Saga,” threw a curveball when she told E! News she pictured Channing Tatum as Riley in the epic battle at the end of “Eclipse.” Then, Evil Iguana Productions fans rampaged the comments section of the article begging for Craig Deering to be cast as the role of Riley. Tom is one in a long line of fan-favorites to play the role, but he is quickly becoming the most popular.

“Ill be ready when they want me! Really, I’m only joking. Im not really sure at this point; but you will be the first to know if I find out anything!” Tom told his fansite, Feltbeats.com. He reiterated the sentiment on his Twitter, saying, “i keep getting asked if im being cast as Riley in Twilight! Ill let you all know if so!!!”

If Tom does make the cut, he will join Robert Pattinson as the second actor to make the jump between series, though newcomer Jamie Campbell Bower is also going to be joining the fray as Caius in “New Moon” and Gellert Grindelwald in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” Part 1 and 2.

“I can’t believe the dedication”~ Tom Felton on the Fans

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News from the wire has it that the stars were impressed at the fans for sticking out the premiere through the rain. The Press Association had this to say concerning today’s London premiere of the Half-Blood Prince.

Thousands of Harry Potter fans braved rain and hail to cheer the cast of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at its London premiere.

Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and other cast members, along with the boy wizard’s creator, JK Rowling, walked up a soggy red carpet before the screening in Leicester Square.
Half-Blood Prince, the sixth Potter film, sees Harry and his friends at Hogwarts school battling evil Lord Voldemort – and their raging teenage hormones.

Fans cheered the film’s stars despite the weather, some holding placards reading “Harry, I’ll be Your Chosen One” and “Britain Loves JK Rowling.”

“I can’t believe the dedication of the fans,” said Tom Felton, who play’s Harry’s rival, Draco Malfoy, in the film.

Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, attended after recovering from a mild bout of swine flu. He said the illness was not severe and “just like any other flu I’ve had before.”

The cast members wore white ribbons in memory of Rob Knox, the young actor on the film who was stabbed to death in London last year.
“He would have loved to be here,” said Jessie Cave, who plays Ron’s sometime love interest, Lavender Brown.

The movie opens around the world on July 15.

Two more films are in the works covering Rowling’s final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.