Maggie Gyllenhaal was so impressed by the clothes she wore on set of The Dark Knight she stopped concentrating on her lines. The actress — who stars alongside the late Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman in the record-breaking film — says her costumes were so great she could not stop thinking [...]

“The Dark Knight” broke records like a disc jockey gone wild this weekend, upsetting former record-holder “Spider-Man 3″ with a best-ever opening that final tallies showed to be $158.4 million. The industry-record bow naturally yielded a studio high for Warner Bros. and personal bests for director Christopher Nolan and cast including topliner Christian Bale. But [...]

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL had to limp down the red carpet at Monday’s (14Jul08) THE DARK KNIGHT premiere, after breaking her toe. The actress, who stars opposite Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger in the new Batman movie, suffered the fracture after whacking her foot against some furniture at home. She blames the accident on her [...]

Batman, both on the small and large screen, has seen several actors playing the same character. Three actors played Catwoman during the run of the Batman television series of the 1960s and that show’s subsequent theatrical release, and the first Warner Bros. series of four movies had the same number of actors playing Batman. The [...]

The stars of The Dark Knight lit up Lincoln Center on Monday. But the talk of the premiere, held at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater, was the one actor missing: Heath Ledger. Ledger, who played the homicidal Joker, died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in January. And this film is his last finished [...]

Ledger was on the mind of his Dark Knight co-stars at last night’s New York premiere. The event was star-studded as Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhart, Heath Ledger’s “Dark Knight” co-stars each raved about the late actor’s jaw-dropping performance. Christian Bale, who plays the caped crusader, told “Extra” – “He [Ledger] was great. He’s a [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who plays Bruce Wayne’s (Christian Bale) childhood best friend Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, proves she’s just like every other woman out there: She wants a normal guy as the man in her life. In Batman Begins we learned that Rachel felt as though she couldn’t be with her true love Bruce [...]