Up until recently, when a movie turned out to be a major bomb — not just a financial failure but a symbol of waste, a legend, a stink bomb — there was usually a movie star’s name imprinted ...

Indeed, nearly 60 years later, Ben-Hur remains the best Easter movie ever made with cinematic lessons as important to the genre as Sunday School…even if it ends before actual Easter Sunday.

What makes a good Jesus movie? That is admittedly a loaded question ... s central narrative about one Hebrew prince named Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and his personal rivalry with childhood ...

With an estimated production cost that’s in the vicinity of $100M, MGM and Paramount certainly didn’t build Ben-Hur to fail this weekend. But if there’s one Come-to-Jesus from this remake ...

“There’s an entire generation that has never seen ‘Ben-Hur,’” he says. “Movie distribution at that time was limited to North America and Europe. This is the first version that’s global.

Lew Wallace’s 19th-century novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” has been adapted into two popular movies — the 1959 Charlton Heston classic, plus a 1925 silent film. But Hollywood has ...

As we sit here on the eve of an event that is simultaneously improbable and inevitable — a Ben-Hur remake staged as a testosterone-infused action blockbuster — it’s probably important to ...

In 1971, when CBS broadcast the 1959 film “Ben-Hur” on television for the first time, more than 85 million people tuned in to view this Hollywood spectacular of friendship, betrayal, revenge ...

Ben-Hur, which claimed 11 Oscars at the 32nd Academy Awards, became one of the defining movies of the era. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review deemed the title the “greatest of all specta ...

Movies were so new that the word "movie" didn ... publisher Harper & Brothers, who owned the Ben-Hur copyright; Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger, theatrical producers who owned the rights to the ...

Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures Share LOS ANGELES — The 1959 “Ben-Hur” movie, starring Charlton Heston and directed by William Wyler, won 11 Academy Awards, including best picture.