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.