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 ...

Of all the film genres, the epic is one of the hardest to define. Must it be a period piece? Must the plot center on a hero? Why is “East of Eden” (1955), with its relatively meager runtime of 117 ...

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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 ...

“Ben-Hur” is quite the sitting duck. What, after all, makes a more inviting target than an attempt to refurbish a film that won a then-record 11 Oscars, including best picture, and earned a ton of ...

“Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ” was the best-selling American novel of the nineteenth century, beating out “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” There were a million copies printed of the 1913 edition, an American ...

There are a number of things missing from the new movie “Ben-Hur” — Quintus Arrius, functioning tripods, a discernible point — but nothing perhaps so notable as the words “A Tale of the Christ.” That ...

Judah Ben-Hur’s sexuality has been hotly debated for decades, but a new film is pushing him firmly back into the closet. A new remake of the 1959 William Wyler-directed swords-and-sandals epic ...

The new "Ben-Hur" (opening August 19) has mighty big sandals to fill. After all, the beloved 1959 version starring Charlton Heston as the title character was one of the most lavish epics in movie ...

The new Ben-Hur opens today, which can't help but put moviegoers in mind of the 1959 MGM blockbuster. That classic starred Charlton Heston and won a pile of Oscars. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BEN-HUR") ...