Posters Check Out The New Music Video And Posters From Paramount Pictures BEN-HUR. By Michelle McCue | July 13, 2016. Share. Tweet. Share. Share. 0 comments. For King & Country call for a “Ceasefire” ...

Like “The Lone Ranger” or “Battleship,” “Ben-Hur” is one of those massive box office wipe-outs that defies easy comprehension. How could something go this disastrously wrong? After all ...

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.

Based on an 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the film was directed by Hollywood great William Wyler, and screenwriter Gore Vidal was one of many who took a pass at the screenplay.In The ...

The movie also marries Ben-Hur off quickly to the kind-eyed servant girl Esther (Nazanin Boniadi, “Homeland”) rather than prolong their love story as in previous versions.

“Ben-Hur” needed an actor like that. But in our era, stardom, more and more, has been cut out of the equation, and that’s partly because it’s been devalued by a culture of 24/7 pinup-gazing.

Freeman portrays Sheik Ilderim in the new movie. — -- Morgan Freeman stars as Sheik Ilderim in the new "Ben-Hur" movie, a film he says should not be called a remake of the 1959 classic ...

Ben-Hur never gives up trying to find his family or exact revenge on Messala. At crucial junctures in his life, he also crosses the path of Jesus, and each time he benefits from it.

Why Ben-Hur Is Still the Best Jesus Christ Movie Ever Made. Most folks just remember Charlton Heston and the chariot race, but trust us, Ben-Hur is the perfect Easter and Jesus movie.

Genre. Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance. Producer. Sam Zimbalist. Distributor. MGM. Release Date. Nov 18, 1959. Release Notes. Nationwide ...