Tangled Magazine

The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance “Passchendaele” playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world’s top movie gatherings.

The Venice Film Festival kicks off today with fewer Hollywood pics and more Italian ones on display amid a mix of preems that should pacify the paparazzi while satisfying cinephiles.

Co-stars are confident Downey’s controversial role will establish his comedic prowess.

“The Dark Knight” again ruled the boxoffice roost this weekend, with its estimated $75.6 million in second-session grosses pushing domestic cume above $300 million in a quickest-ever sprint of just 10 days.

“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