The City of Rome regrets the loss in income. Ben-Hur has been done several times over (first with a 15 minute long silent film in 1907), but the story perhaps hit its stride with the 1959 American ...

The film, based on Lew Wallace‘s novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, is set for a Feb. 26, 2016 nationwide theater release and stars Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman, Ayelet Zurer ...

Actor Charlton Heston in the 1959 original Ben Hur. Photo: MGM/Wikimedia Commons Filmmakers behind the remake of Oscar-winning Ben Hur have seen plans to shoot at Circus Maximus, Rome’s ancient ...

It is Messalla who races against Ben-Hur, played by Charlton Heston, in a spectacular chariot contest. The race, one of the most lavish set-piece events to be made by Hollywood at the time, is won ...

MGM's 'Ben-Hur' Starts Shooting at Rome's Storied Cinecittà Studios ...

A set at an historic film studio in Italy where classics such as Ben-Hur were shot has been destroyed in a fire. Three teams of firefighters fought a blaze at Cinecitta Studios in Rome on Monday, 1 ...

The strange teaming of Timur Bekmambetov, John Ridley, and producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey never matches the previous two big-screen outings for this "tale of the Christ" ...

It’s a miracle! Who knew that in 33 A.D., whether you were a Jewish slave, a Roman soldier, a wise African nomad or Jesus himself, odds were you had flawless, shiny, perfectly aligned white teeth.

The new movie version of Ben-Hur that’s about to land in theaters, featuring Morgan Freeman, isn’t just a reimagining of one classic movie. The hit 1880 Lew Wallace novel of that name has been ...

A Ben-Hur remake? Fine, sure. Why not? I like Rome. Swordplay, coliseums, crucifixions, bacchanals… I’ll take two, and with extra incest, please. I still remember my most intense college film ...

Actor Charlton Heston in the 1959 original Ben Hur. Photo: MGM/Wikimedia Commons Filmmakers behind the remake of Oscar-winning Ben Hur have seen plans to shoot at Circus Maximus, Rome’s ancient ...