The death of actor Heath Ledger, who was on the cusp of breaking into mega celebrity thanks to his performance in ‘The Dark Knight,’ was voted as the biggest movie news story in 2008. Over 3.5 million votes were cast in the December poll at AOL’s Moviefone.com deciding on the best and worst movie events for the year.

Ledger, whose death at age 28 in January 2008 of an accidental prescription drugs overdose shocked the world, received a whooping 83 percent of votes as the biggest movie news of the year.

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Jennifer Lopez blames hubby Marc Anthony for her career “going down the tubes,” says a new report in Us Weekly. The mag has observed the two have attended events separately this month, and that JLo has been photographed without her wedding ring on.

“If the ring’s not on, there’s a reason for it,” said Us Weekly’s Jill Martin. “She doesn’t just accidentally forget to wear the ring.”

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Can you see an older Axel Foley as the Riddler? The Sun is spreading the rumor stating that Eddie Murphy has signed on to be in the next Batman movie, ‘Gotham.’ The Beverly Hills Cop star, 47, has allegedly been tapped by director Christopher Nolan to reprise the role played by Jim Carrey in ‘Batman Forever.’

More details by the gossip rag reveal that the studio wants ‘Transformers‘ star Shia LaBeouf, 22, to play Robin. Which will be interesting because Christian Bale, the best Batman EVER!, says he will quite the role if they ever write the Robin character into the script…

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‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ grabbed the number one spot for the weekend box office. As Keanu Reeves would say, “Whoa.” The sci-fi remake of the over-rated 1951 cult film took in $31 million in the US, and $70 million worldwide. That’s a lot of coin for a movie that sucks.

Keanu played the alien Klaatu who must judge the human race and Jennifer Connelly played as an astrobiologist on whom the world’s fate depends. The movie also starred Will Smith’s kid, Jaden Smith, and Kathy Bates.

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The late Heath Ledger has been nominated for a Golden Globe award posthumously for his role as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” He will win, and possibly win a Best Supporting Oscar statue as well. Otherwise, ‘The Dark Knight,’ the year’s biggest hit, was snubbed in all other categories at the Globes.

“Heath was a friend of mine. He gave his all in that film. I think he will win in that category. He’ll also get an Oscar,” said Terrence Howard, about his co-star’s nomination for “The Dark Knight.”

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British actor Daniel Radcliffe now realizes and accepts the fact that he has the ‘Harry Potter’ movie franchise to thank for his $40 million bank account his fame and acting career.

Though Radcliffe, 19, seemingly has taken on other film and stage gigs to slip the bonds of his teen Potter image – like appearing nude onstage for ‘Equus’ – he says the wizard flicks have “given him everything.”

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The vampires were only a hot item for about a week as Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon’s surprising hit comedy “Four Christmases” easily won the box office top spot with a take of $46.7 million in the 4-day holiday weekend run.

If that estimated amount hold, it would make the comedy the third-best Thanksgiving weekend opener ever, after Toy Story 2 ($80M) and last year’s Enchanted ($49M). It’s also a best for Vaughn since ‘The Break-Up’, and it’s Witherspoon’s best since ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ more than six years back.

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The vampire-loves-mortal high school girl flick ‘Twilight’ and beautiful dude Robert Pattinson, but mostly beautiful dude Robert Pattinson, were the reason tens of thousands of tween and teen girls spent the past three days screaming at the theater big screens.

The film scored a big $70 million on its opening weekend, which guarantees it that the rest of the vampire book series will be made into films.

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It’s been rumored all year that Tom Cruise’s upcoming Nazi flick is bad, bad, bad. So bad, in fact, that they’ve re-tooled it but the snickers and comments keep coming – now that a few people have actually SEEN the film. It’s set to be released on Dec. 26 since they have no more reasons to delay this bomb any longer.

MSNBC’s The Scoop got the scoop from a member of an advanced screening audience who said that people in the theater laughed uncomfortably at what is being marketed as a thriller.

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Sean Connery may have been voted by fans as the all time favorite James Bond, but blondie Daniel Craig is breaking all US box office records with his incarnation of the 007 British Agent. Craig’s film “Quantum of Solace” opened on Friday and went on to score a $70.4 million weekend.

The leaner, blonder, more brooding Bond as played by Craig has proven to be a hit with the fans, despite early predictions that the actor would “ruin” the Bond brand. Looks now like he revived the tired franchise and gave it new life.

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