The 1959 epic Ben-Hur is one of the biggest films in Hollywood history, so it makes sense that it has generated its share of outsized urban legends: A stuntman’s actual death can be seen in the film; ...
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St. Louis-based Ben Hur Construction closes steel fabrication facility, lists properties for $7.5M
A local construction firm is selling its steel fabrication facility, and over 1,000 pieces of equipment are being auctioned ...
This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited ...
Woodland Park, N.J. — No surprise that Ben-Hur has come back to the movies (the latest remake opened Friday ). In some ways, you could say Ben-Hur created the movies. The Biblical-era story of the ...
The first two major big-screen versions of “Ben-Hur” were huge hits, with the second one, from 1959, winning 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. The third time’s definitely not the charm with the ...
This year’s remake of “Ben-Hur” bombed, and it bombed big. The film took in $11 million its opening weekend against a $100 million production budget. It isn’t only that the chariot race can’t compare ...
The epic chariot scene falls flat. Almost six decades ago, Charlton Heston embodied Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, in the Academy Award-winning blockbuster of the ...
"It’s important to say that this isn’t a remake of the incredible William Wyler film. It is our reimagining of Ben-Hur for 2016,” producer Sean Daniel tells THR. By Fatema Etemadi The cast of Timur ...
Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' and fellow Disney release 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' are other giant-sized summer tentpoles racking up major losses. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Ben-Hur ...
With an estimated production cost that’s in the vicinity of $100M, MGM and Paramount certainly didn’t build Ben-Hur to fail this weekend. But if there’s one Come-to-Jesus from this remake’s estimated ...
A backstage tale about the 1959 version suggested that Wyler urged Stephen Boyd, who played Messala, to imply that he had a homoerotic thing for his brother. True or not, the idea is delicious. None ...
Almost six decades after we met Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur, we’re off to the chariot races again. The newest take on Lew Wallace’s 1880 epic trades Heston for Huston, as Jack Huston steps into ...
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