Ebert was in the middle of a contract renegotiation for the show—which he continued to produce and contribute to though his cancer treatment had kept him off-camera—when, according to Disney ...

As of February 2010, Ebert has a full-time, live-in nurse attend to him when needed. Although doctors have asked him to allow them to make one more attempt to restore his voice, Ebert has refused, ...

On April 4, 2013, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic Roger Ebert died after a long battle with cancer. He was 70.

Ebert’s praise of exemplary filmmaking was a treat for readers, but his take-downs of the very worst of box offices provided another joy.

James, whose pearly résumé includes Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters, inevitably focuses on Ebert’s grueling, inspiring cancer battle. He filmed in the final months of Roger’s life and at ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. theatrical, VOD and home entertainment rights to the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself,” an individual familiar with the negotiations has told TheWrap ...

Though Mr. Ebert’s jaw surgery changed his appearance and took away his voice, we kept hearing him. His writing, and the quality of it, was not compromised. His courage was noted in that he did not ...

UPDATED (4/17/13): A selection of tributes and memories from those who knew, and read, Roger Ebert. More will be added as we collect them: "For a generation of Americans -- and especially Chicagoans - ...

Film critic Roger Ebert died today at the age of 70. AP Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who become the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie ...

Mostly, though, I read Roger Ebert’s Journal —the blog he started when his health started declining, and the collection of twilight writing that changed him, in my eyes, from a thoughtful film ...