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July 22, 2008

Goodbye Ebert and Roeper, hello Lyons and Mankiewicz

2:16 PM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 |
Stephen Becker   E-mail   News tips

As we passed along in a post yesterday, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have called it quits on At the Movies, blaming contractual and philosophical differences with the show's owner, Disney. And today, we find out that their replacements will be Ben Lyons of E! News and Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.
I can't say that i am too familiar with either of these guys, but I think it is telling that they chose to go with non-newspaper critics. Seems to me like it sends one of two messages (or possibly both).
1. Disney doesn't believe in the infuence of the newspaper critic, chosing to go with people already associated with television.
2. The new direction of the show, rumored to be focusing more on Hollywood in general rather than straight movie reviewing, wouldn't work for newspaper critics who often perfer to focus on the actual movies.
Either way, it's hard for this newspaper person to get too excited about this announcement.


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Box office buzz -- record edition

11:41 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 |
Stephen Becker   E-mail   News tips

Alone at the top
Records fell over the weekend like so many of the Joker's henchmen as The Dark Knight earned $158.4 million to claim the opening-weekend title previously held by Spider-Man 3. Along the way, Hollywood set an overall box-office mark of $253 million for a three-day weekend, besting the previous high from July 7-9, 2006, when Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest debuted.

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Christian Bale arrested in alleged assault on mom, sister

10:30 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 |
Holly Warren   E-mail   News tips

The Associated Press reports:

Batman star Christian Bale was arrested Tuesday over allegations of assaulting his mother and sister, police and British media said. British media had reported that Bale's mother and sister complained they were assaulted by the 34-year-old actor at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before the European premiere of his latest film, The Dark Knight.

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