Wax Sparkles is my new obsession. These are photos of the new Robert Pattinson wax figures at Madame Tussauds in New York and London. This is a shockingly good likeness of Sparkles! I mean, sure, it’s not perfect. It’s like 80% Sparkles, 10% Richard Grieco and 10% vanilla. But this is maybe one of the best wax likenesses I’ve ever seen. They’ve even done his hair up, up, and away! It could look dirtier, though.

Guess how much it cost to make the London Wax Sparkles? 150,000 pounds! And it took four months to make. Ugh. You’re doing it wrong, Wax Sparkles.

Meanwhile, Remember Me continues to bomb its way down the box office receipts. Blackbook Magazine just asked “Can Robert Pattinson carry a movie?” This is their delightful answer:

Nope! No, he cannot. As Edward Cullen, Pattinson has proved, twice now, to the Twilight folks over at Summit that his pout is worth its weight in gold. But as Robert Pattinson, a real life guy without fangs and a werewolf nemesis? Not so much. His latest installment of emorno—emotion porn!—Remember Me, is a turkey of massive proportions, having only grossed $14,521,707 domestically over the past two weeks. Ticket sales dropped by 64% entering the film’s second week of release, coming in just under Our Family Wedding, a movie so small the Regal at Union Square thought it was called Our Family Weeding. But it gets worse.

The Bounty Hunter, about which one critic’s review reads, “I’m actually yawning while I type this,” made $23,720,824 in its first week—abysmal, but almost twice what Remember Me has grossed in half the time. The reviews haven’t been kind, either. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, “It’s all weepy drool until the twist ending, which turns it shockingly offensive.” And he was being kind.

Pattinson’s track record hasn’t exactly been as blemish-free as Cullen’s lifeless complexion. His gay art-film, Little Ashes, grossed $481,586 domestically. Another one, the coming-of-age story How To Be, went straight to DVD. Meanwhile, Robsessed, the documentary about his insatiable screaming fans, is available, used, on Amazon for three British Pounds. Just saying.

[From Blackbook]

Too harsh? Sure. Not everyone can have a mega-blockbuster every time, and at least Sparkles tried to do something beyond “sparkly vampire”. Sidenote: Worst. Typecasting. Ever. Anyway, Sparkles is making enough people enough money as is. The New Moon DVD sales are through the roof, reportedly 4 million copies were sold over one single weekend. So… yeah. My guess is that New Moon will be one of the best selling, if not the best selling DVD of the year.

Wax Sparkles in London and New York on March 25, 2010. Credit: WENN.