Filming began on May 18, 1958, and didn’t wrap up until January 7, 1959. The film crew worked between 12 to 14 hours a day, ...

Remaking a film that won 11 Academy Awards invites inevitable comparison, but the latest adaptation of “Ben-Hur” distinguishes itself from William Wyler’s 1959 epic by retooling key characters and ...

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" isn’t a ...

The old adage “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” applies more aptly to 1959’s Ben-Hur than almost any film of its era. An epic on a scale never before seen, it survives now like a Hollywood time ...

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 ...

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. But Hollywood has little hope for ...

It’s about much more than simple entertainment, they said. — -- “Ben-Hur,” the epic 1959 tale, is coming back to the big screen today, this time re-imagined for a new generation of moviegoers.

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 ...

You name it, Ken Valles has it, if it’s related to Ben-Hur. Check it out Saturday at the Ute Pass Cultural Center. Photo by Pat Hill An ancient tale that remains relevant today, “Ben-Hur: A Tale of ...

Ben-Hur takes us back into the novel inspired by biblical events, where we find Jerusalem nobleman Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) living a good enough life under the ever-present occupation of Roman ...

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 adapted ...