Tangled Magazine

“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 estimated at $155.3 million.

It wasn’t the the most pleasant form of research, but Aaron Eckhart knew it was necessary. In preparation for his role in The Dark Knight as Harvey Dent, the crusading Gotham district attorney who is transformed into the hideous and emotionally twisted Two-Face, Aaron started talking to burn victims.

Although 2004’s “Hellboy” debuted at No. 1 at the box office and hauled in an impressive $23.5 million, Selma Blair, who starred as the pyrokinetic Liz Sherman, says her life didn’t change very much after all the hype from the role.

Jason Bateman was that sweet orphan who lived in The Little House on the Prairie and went on to equally cute roles in Silver Spoons and Valerie. Now, Bateman is all grown-up, and he’s been showing a new side of himself.

In the new action film “Wanted,” James McAvoy plays a 25-year-old slacker whose life changes when he chooses to follow in his long lost father’s footsteps and become a trained assassin.

Audiences still get Maxwell Smart. Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway’s “Get Smart,” the Warner Bros. big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, raked in $39.2 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie

“Get Smart” is a spy spoof in the “Austin Powers” tradition, made to cash in on the overnight fame of Steve Carell. Co-stars Anne Hathaway and Dwayne Johnson enjoyed cracking jokes and then heading back to their trailers as professional stuntmen acted out their action scenes. It’s a big, dumb, traditional summer blockbuster, filled to the brim with fart jokes.

A bigger, meaner “The Incredible Hulk” crushed the competition at North American weekend box office with a $54.5 million take.

Mark Wahlberg grew up in a tough Irish American suburb of Boston and has the war stories to prove it. But his early years dropping out of high school and getting into trouble are long behind him and now he’s one of the highest paid screen actors in the world.

Tangled Magazine was at the red carpet for the Australian premiere of Kung Fu Panda and chatted to Jack Black, director John Stevenson and Dreamworks Animation SKG CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.