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Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian director of the Hollywood movie Ben-Hur, one of the year’s biggest flops, has blamed the movie’s message of anti-vengeance for its failure at the U.S. box office.
Charlton Heston will reprise his role of "Ben Hur" for an upcoming remake of the movie. But instead of the months of work he put in on the first one in 1959, his role this time required only a ...
This is why a Ben-Hur release for 2016 makes sense. We need this message in our country and in our world right now." The verbal attacks by the main presidential candidates prove her right.
Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) is falsely accused of an assassination attempt by his childhood friend and adoptive brother Messala (Toby Kebbell). He survives years of slavery under the Romans and ...
“Ben-Hur” (1959), which celebrated its 65th anniversary this past November, stands as a quintessential example of everything an epic is and should be.
The message is imparted with the subtlety of a Kanye West tweet. Outside of the first action sequence and the chariot race, this "Ben-Hur" eschews great storytelling to push an agenda that will ...
This is why a Ben-Hur release for 2016 makes sense. We need this message in our country and in our world right now." The verbal attacks by the main presidential candidates prove her right.
Meet Union General Lewis Wallace, who wrote the redemption story "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" while pursuing his own redemption story after he was unfairly blamed for a Civil War battlefield loss.
WIth a riotous blend of costume changes, intentionally mangled lines, and sets and costumes striving for deliberate awfulness, this production of “Ben Hur” couldn’t be more different from ...
‘Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ’ first came to Fort Worth in 1911 as a spectacular stage show.
Ben-Hur, which sold 25,000 tickets a week when it opened at the Broadway Theater, was the greatest show of them all.
Charlton Heston will reprise his role of "Ben Hur" for an upcoming remake of the movie. But instead of the months of work he put in on the first one in 1959, his role this time required only a ...