Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The relationship between Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince, and Messala, a Roman officer, is a thread that winds through all ...

Forth from the stable after a decades-long snooze, comes the old warhorse “Ben-Hur.” It bursts from the barn in an opening scene showing Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and his best-buddy-soon-to-be-worst ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Paramount Pictures and MGM have unveiled a new ...

If each generation gets the movie spectacles they deserve, then we probably had the new “Ben-Hur” — a scattered and hokey, if well-meaning, mess — coming. But even in this fertile age for popular ...

“Ben-Hur” and Charlton Heston go together like sword and sandal, inextricably linked in the public mind. But the new, $100 million version of “Ben-Hur” owes less to the well-known 1959 big-screen epic ...

Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel “Ben-Hur: A Take of the Christ,” one of the 19th century’s biggest best sellers, has been the basis for two classic Hollywood films. There was Fred Niblo’s 1925 version, ...

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 ...