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Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper are severing ties with their eponymous movie review franchise at Disney.

From the Chicago Tribune:

Industry sources said that Disney is contemplating a reinvention of the movie review show with more of a Hollywood focus, along the lines of CBS Television Distribution's "Entertainment Tonight."

Roeper's contract with Disney expires in about three weeks.

Unavailable for comment, ironically, is the Tribune’s Michael Phillips, who has been filling in for an ailing Ebert on the show.

This is not the first time Ebert has moved his dueling-reviewers series, which started at PBS in 1975 then migrated to Tribune Entertainment in 1982 before it landed at Disney in 1986.

Read all of the Trib’s story on the matter here.