Ben-Hur, 1959. Directed by William Wyler. Starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell, and Sam Jaffe. SYNOPSIS: Warner Bros. made the wait for Ben-Hur in 4K worthwhile with a release that blows away previous editions and is certainly one of the best home video releases of this […]
Unsurprisingly, the Ben-Hur remake bombs at the box office
This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but the remake of Ben-Hur did not have a good opening weekend at the box office. With a production budget of $100 million, Ben-Hur managed to earn the least of the new releases over the weekend, and was also toppled by Suicide Squad in its […]
Time After Time: The Origin of Wells vs The Ripper
Tony Black on the original of Wells vs. The Ripper… It’s been quite the week for time travel TV shows, as first NBC’s Timeless dropped a trailer (and if that show could have more cliches, I’d love to know how), the announcement that Jeremy Carver has jumped from the good ship Supernatural to head up […]
15 Box Office Flops of 2016
Luke Owen charts some of the box office flops 2016… Movie screenings were up, but the box office figures for 2016 are down on last year. Granted, we didn’t see a release like Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which grossed $1 billion domestically and $2 billion worldwide), but big titles like Batman v Superman: Dawn […]
Movie Review – Ben-Hur (2016)
Ben-Hur, 2016. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov Starring Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Toby Kebbell, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Sofia Black D’Elia, Ayelet Zurer, Moisés Arias, Marwan Kenzari and Pilou Asbæk. SYNOPSIS: Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at […]
Rodrigo Santoro to play Jesus in Ben-Hur remake
Rodrigo Santoro (300: Rise on an Empire) is in final negotiations to play Jesus Christ in the upcoming MGM and Paramount Pictures in Ben-Hur, the remake of the 1959 Charlton Heston classic. Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) is directing the movie, which is an adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the […]
