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 ...

Not this "Ben-Hur." In the not-too-distant past, faith-based movies, if they were made at all, suffered from low budgets and tackiness and were often too preachy.

Featuring chariot races in 3-D, the "Ben Hur" classic is making a comeback, but changing its tune. While the 1960 film was a major hit, the new one is opting for a low-key release.

Though the new rendition of "Ben-Hur" has been billed as a "re-imagining of the novel" as opposed to a remake of the 1959 film, shades of the past were very present in the production process.

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 ...

Get all the details on the new film. — -- Starring Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell and Morgan Freeman Rated PG-13 One-and-a-half out of five stars Let’s pretend for a few seconds that "Ben-Hur ...

Since Mel Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" grossed more than $600 million worldwide, Hollywood has slowly begun to look at faith-based movies as a way to fatten their bottom ...

That’s a trap that the 1959 “Ben-Hur” somehow miraculously avoided, never mind that it runs about twice as long as the new film and grants Jesus way less face time.

Fast forward to the present and “Ben Hur,” about a theater troupe re-creating the epic tale of the best-selling book of the same name, takes center stage at the Long Beach Playhouse, under the ...

Since Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ” grossed more than $600 million worldwide, Hollywood has slowly begun to look at faith-based movies as a way to fatten their ...

Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) is ... message — love trumps hate — lands with such brute force that you may feel like you’ve been trampled by horses when the moral of the story comes thudding ...