Naomi Foner - the mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal - has filed for divorce from their father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Los Angeles court papers show.

Married for 30 years, Foner - a Golden-Globe winning screenwriter with credits including Running on Empty and Losing Isaiah - cites irreconcilable differences. She says the couple has been separated since Jan. 1.

Foner isn’t seeking spousal support, and she also asks the court to deny Gyllenhaal - a film director - any support.

The papers were filed Wednesday.

- Ken Lee

The romance between Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon is soooo “right,” a friend of the couple tells PEOPLE.

“I dig Jake and Reese together,” says Clifton Collins Jr., an old pal of Witherspoon, 32, and Gyllenhaal’s costar in the upcoming film Brothers. “They seem happy.”

Gyllenhaal, 27, seems a great match for her, he says. “He’s got this big, lovable heart. He’s just like that.”

So would Gyllenhaal make a good dad?

You betcha, he adds. In fact, “He’s a big kid. And he’s very playful.” Indeed, Gyllenhaal has had a lot of practice: He’s uncle to 22-month-old Ramona, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal’s child with Peter Saarsgaard, and has been spending lots of time with Witherspoon and her kids, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4.

Watching Gyllenhaal and Witherspoon together, “I see smiles, so something’s gotta be %26#91;going%26#93; right,” Collins Jr. says.

• Reporting by VANESSA DIAZ

A day after his arrest on assault allegations, Christian Bale turned out for the premiere of The Dark Night in Spain on Wednesday, meeting fans but avoiding questions from reporters.

Wearing a dark blue suit, Bale, 34, signed autographs and posed for photos with his wife Sibi and his Batman costars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart at the event in Madrid.

Bale, released by police in London Tuesday afternoon, appeared calm and relaxed after arriving at the premiere in a 15-car motorcade, the Associated Press reports. He did not speak to reporters or say anything about his arrest, according to AP.

In a statement released by his attorneys, the actor denied the allegations.

A posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger for his Joker performance?

“I would vote for him,” his Dark Knight cstar Maggie Gyllenhaal told reporters Monday at the film’s London premiere.

Gyllenhaal, 30, said of Ledger’s Oscar prospects that the “degree of difficulty should be incorporated into the award.”

“To be that incredible in a movie that’s this huge, that’s about so many things, is really an accomplishment,” she said. “In a way I feel funny thinking about the Oscars when he isn’t alive, but at the same time I’m a member of the Academy and I would vote for him.”

She said of Ledger’s performance: “In order to be a good actor you have to find a place where you are free, but it’s very unusual to be absolutely free in the way that he was in this movie It was inspiring working with him.”

At the premiere - which featured a 2.5 ton replica of the Batmobile, shooting flames - fans carried signs and banners campaigning for an Oscar for Ledger.

Michael Caine, who plays Batman’s butler Alfred, told reporters he “would pay good money” to see a performance that could top Ledger’s for the Oscar. Previously Caine said Ledger was worthy of nomination.

Step aside, Spider-Man 2 and Superman II: The phenomenal The Dark Knight now reigns as the greatest superhero film of all time. From its exhilarating first frame to its bittersweet last, it sets a new standard for the genre - and redefines what a summer popcorn movie can be.

After starting to clean up corrupt Gotham City by becoming the caped crusader in 2005’s Batman Begins, billionaire Bruce Wayne (a superb Christian Bale) has the city’s bad guys on their heels. He’s joined in the fight against crime by the equally committed district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) - fated to fall from grace and become the ghastly Two-Face - who is romancing Wayne’s old flame Rachel (Maggie Gyllenhaal, a spry upgrade over Batman Begins‘ Katie Holmes).

While Bale again astounds, The Dark Knight’s real star is the late Ledger. Many thought that Jack Nicholson’s turn as the Joker in 1989’s Batman would never be topped, but Ledger manages to do just that.

His angrily applied white makeup accentuates the hideously creepy scars carved into his cheeks. And while Nicholson was a merry, scary jokester, frying a foe with an electrified joy buzzer, Ledger’s gags, like making a pencil “disappear” into a victim’s skull, are even darker. His haunting Joker helps make The Dark Knight unforgettable.

The Dark Knight (PG-13) opens Friday.

Stars turned out for Monday’s New York City premiere of The Dark Knight - and to honor their friend and fellow actor, Heath Ledger.

Ledger’s onetime girlfriend Naomi Watts, with her current flame Liev Schreiber, attended the gala screening, along with celebrities including Ethan Hawke, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley, Regis and Joy Philbin, Lauren Conrad, Patrick Wilson and Emile Hirsch.

Knight costars Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal (who came with boyfriend Peter Sarsgaard), Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman paid tribute to Ledger as they walked the black carpet.

“Heath will always be in our hearts,” said Eckhart. “I admire him as an actor and enjoyed watching him work.”

After the screening, attendees mingled well past midnight at an afterparty at the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

• Reporting by Jesse North and K.C. Baker

About to break out of indie films and into blockbuster stardom with The Dark Knight, Maggie Gyllenhaal opens up about her family - including her little brother, Jake.

“He’s great with kids - it comes naturally to him,” Maggie says in the August issue of Marie Claire, about Jake Gyllenhaal, frequently seen in the company of girlfriend Reese Witherspoon and her children. “He really has that touch.”

And Maggie should know. Her daughter, Ramona, turns 2 in October.

with a child,” she tells the magazine, out July 15. “%26#91;When Ramona was first born%26#93;, I didn’t know what I was doing.”

The actress, who recently said she thinks harder about accepting movie roles since becoming a mom, adds there are some down sides to all the attention she’s getting from being in a high-profile movie like The Dark Knight - such a being called out for fashion so-called faux pas.

“Sometimes it freaks me out. I’ve been so hurt and felt so bad,” she says of making celeb “worst dressed” lists.

Still, she is able to let some of it roll of her, adding, “People will always say mean things about you if you put yourself out there.”

Maggie Gyllenhaal is cool with onscreen nudity - so long as she’s the one in the buff and not her actor-fiancé, Peter Sarsgaard.

“I hate it when Peter does a love scene,” the actress, 30, admits in the August issue of Britain’s Tatler. “He’s very understanding - it doesn’t seem to bother him %26#91;when I do one%26#93;.”

She’d like to keep it that way. “I’d hate it %26#91;if he was doing it%26#93;,” she says. “I’d put up with it, I’d understand, but I wouldn’t like it.”

“After Secretary, people knew that I’d get naked, but I won’t get naked for anything - only if it makes sense,” she says.

Obviously happy in her own skin, the actress went on to act out steamy love scenes in Sherrybaby and even posed up for the British-based lingerie designer, Agent Provocateur, just six months after giving birth to her and Sarsgaard’s daughter Ramona, born October 2006.

Loves Role as Mom

And the actress, soon to be seen as Batman’s love interest in the much-anticipated The Dark Knight, couldn’t be happier in her real-life role as Ramona’s mom.

“Motherhood is incredible,” gushes the actress. “It’s brought me to my knees in an incredible way - it’s so humbling.”

And are the engaged, Brooklyn-based couple, soon to be walking down the aisle? “At some point in the next 20,” she responds casually.

Maggie Gyllenhaal says motherhood made her a better actress, but now she wants to spend more time at home than in front of the cameras.

“I think having a child changes everything and has deepened everything in my life,” Gyllenhaal, mom to 20-month-old daughter Ramona, told reporters recently. “I think it has deepened my acting.”

Of motherhood, “It really does crack you open in every way,” said the actress. “I never knew that I could be so tired. I never knew that I could work so hard. I never knew that I could love so much or be so patient or be so excited by the tiniest, tiniest little thing. Everything about it has surprised me.”

In the film, she plays Rachel Dawes, Batman’s love interest, taking over the role from Katie Holmes, who played the part in the previous film.

“I do think that it’s really difficult to get me away from %26#91;Ramona%26#93;,” she said. “It’s difficult to find a script that’s good enough for me to think, ‘Okay, I really need to do this instead of being with my daughter.’”

Known for her edgy performances, Gyllenhaal filmed Farlanders for director Sam Mendes last spring, “but mostly I’ve been with her,” she says. “Some people have asked me whether I’ll choose things that … have a more sort of child-appropriate content, and I don’t think so. I think I’ll choose what’s interesting to me.”

Gyllenhaal says she receives tremendous support balancing parenthood and career from fiancé, Peter Sarsgaard. “We share absolutely equally,” she explained, and added that her brother Jake Gyllenhaal is “a great uncle.”

Heath Ledger will receive a special posthumous tribute at the end of his Batman movie, The Dark Knight.

The movie’s closing credits will also acknowledge special-effects technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed last September in a stunt-car accident.

The send-off reads, “In memory of our friends Heath Ledger %26 Conway Wickliffe.”

Ledger, who died in January, plays the villainous Joker in the film, which opens July 18. It also stars Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, as well as Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- Stephen M. Silverman