Actress Michelle Williams is planning to produced a documentary based on the life of her late ex Heath Ledger. The film would feature friends and colleagues sharing their memories of the Oscar-nominated star. Read the rest of this entry »

Heath Ledger will have a theater named in his honor in his Perth, Australia hometown, the Associated Press reports. The Oscar-nominated actor died in January.

“Heath Ledger was totally dedicated to the craft of being an actor and that’s what made him successful,” Western Australia state Premier Alan Carpenter said at dedication ceremony Monday night. “I think what we’re doing is continuing that support for young people who want to make a career in the arts and acting, stage and in film, whatever it happens to be.”

The $87 million, 575 seat, Heath Ledger Theater is currently under construction.

Late actor Heath Ledger deserves an Academy Award for his performance as The Joker in this year’s Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »

Actress Michelle Williams has denied a Tuesday morning report from the New York Post claiming she is boycotting the July 14th premiere of Batman: Dark Knight over a will dispute with Heath Ledger’s family.

“The presumption that Michelle ever intended to attend The Dark Knight premiere is unfounded, but to say she is ‘boycotting’ due to a rift with Heath’s family is absurd,” Williams’s rep Mara Buxbaum said in a statement. “It is time to allow this family to go about their lives without this continued scrutiny and speculation.”

Don’t look for Michelle Williams at the July 14th World Premiere of Dark Knight. The actress is reportedly furious with the family of her late fiance, Heath Ledger, and threatening to boycott the movie opening-and all other events where the family may be present-until the Ledgers agree to provide some financial support for Heath and Michelle’s young daughter, Matilda. Read the rest of this entry »

The formation of the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund was announced at the 2008 Australians in Film Breakthrough Awards in Beverly Hills Thursday night. The fund has been set up in memory of Academy Award-nominated star Heath Ledger, who died in January at the age of twenty-eight. The Heath Ledger Scholarship is designed to “help struggling Aussie actors” succeed in the film industry.

American toy stores can’t get enough of Heath Ledger as “The Joker.” Toy stores in New York City are selling out of an action hero figurine of the late Australian actor as the evil villain in the new Batman film Dark Knight, to premiere in theaters this summer. Read the rest of this entry »

In this episode of the PopCrunch Show, Sarah East discusses which Hollywood men would make the worst dads, including Eddie Murphy, Alexis Arquette, Heath Ledger, Kevin Federline.

A shaken Mary-Kate Olsen has stepped up security after receiving hate mail and death threats from angry fans of Heath Ledger. According to a recently published report, many fans of the late Oscar-nominated actor blame pint-sized Mary-Kate for the drug overdose that led to his death in January. Read the rest of this entry »

A New York City celebrity sightseeing tour angered SoHo residents by adding the apartment where Heath Ledger died to its route. Rich & Famous Tours -the “celebrity insider’s tour” of New York – has annoyed neighbours in the building where the Brokeback Mountain star died late last month. Read the rest of this entry »