Ben-Hur opens this weekend via MGM and Paramount/ Viacom Inc. on what is the final weekend of the summer. It is as good a sign as any about how the industry has changed. Back in 1959, a remake of ...

Lew Wallace's nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: ... prison and sentencing Judah to the hellish life of a Roman galley slave. ... excruciating years chained to oars in imperial ships, ...

BEN-HUR won 11 Oscars in 1959 and deserved every one of them. It’s a titanic film both in structure and scope. It doesn’t need me to go over old ground about how much the film cost to make, the number ...

But in the new “Ben-Hur,” when you watch the English actor Jack Huston take on the role of Judah Ben-Hur, the wealthy Jerusalem prince who is stripped, by the Romans, of his home and family ...

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set 12 Years A Slave scribe John Ridley to do a rewrite on Ben-Hur, a new adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ, which Timur Bekmambetov will ...

Ben-Hur reviews: What critics are saying. ... vengeance and gospel writ Roman Empire-large — into a mad movie dash from prince’s palace to slave ship to chariot race.

"12 Years a Slave" writer John Ridley has come on board to write MGM’s reboot of “Ben-Hur,” the studio’s 1959 epic starring Charlton Heston. Sean Daniel and Joni Levin are producing the ...

Learn more about the full cast of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ with news, photos, ... Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, ...