NEWSMAKERS

NEWSMAKERS

‘Bourne,’ ‘Campaign’ bump Batman

LOS ANGELES

“The Dark Knight Rises” has finally fallen out of first-place at the weekend box office.

Jeremy Renner’s action tale “The Bourne Legacy” took over as the No. 1 movie with a $40.3 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis’ political comedy “The Campaign” opened at No. 2 with $27.4 million.

The new movies pushed “The Dark Knight Rises” down to third-place with $19.5 million, raising the superhero blockbuster’s three-week domestic total to $390.1 million.

The weekend’s other new wide release, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones’ marital comic drama “Hope Springs,” opened at No. 4 with $15.6 million.

In fifth place was “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” with $8.2 million.

Reporter Fleming dies, had covered civil rights

LOS ANGELES

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil-rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it — died Saturday at his home in LA. He was 84.

The cause was related to a number of respiratory ailments, said his son Charles Fleming.

Born and bred in the Jim Crow South, Fleming worked his way through small North Carolina newspapers to become chief of Newsweek’s Atlanta bureau in 1961. In the next few years, he covered some of the most dramatic clashes that churned the South as the fight over racial injustice escalated.

Billy Graham in hospital with infection

ASHEVILLE, N.C.

A spokesman for Billy Graham says the 93-year-old evangelist has been admitted to a North Carolina hospital for an infection in his lungs.

A joint statement Sunday from Graham’s spokesman and Mission Hospital says Graham was admitted overnight for evaluation and treatment of an infection thought to be bronchitis.

The hospital is in Asheville, near his home in Montreat.

Pulmonologist David Pucci says Graham is resting comfortably and his condition is stable. He is receiving antibiotics.

Beastie Boys rapper’s will bars ad use of work

NEW YORK

The Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch rapped that he wouldn’t “sell my songs for no TV ad.”

His will shows he wanted to make sure that held true after his death.

The will was filed in a Manhattan court last week, three months after his death from cancer at age 47. It says his image, name, music “or any artistic property” he created can’t be used for advertising.

His lawyer and the band’s spokesman declined to comment Friday.

Combined dispatches