You know you’ve wondered about it. There’s just something about the reunion between Judah Ben-Hur and his boyhood pal Messala that makes you think they once did more than romp through the bulrushes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is "Ben-Hur" the most epic of Hollywood epics? It's hard to top the birth of Christ, the Roman empire, the Holy Land, galleys at ramming speed, the most famous chariot race in movie history, the ...

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 ...

Having recently wrapped “Fantastic Four,” in which he plays the evil Doctor Doom, Toby Kebbell may have found another bad boy role. Sources tell Variety Toby Kebbell is in early talks to play Messala ...

“When the Romans were marching me to the galleys, thirst had almost killed me. A man gave me water to drink, and I went on living. I should have done better if I’d poured it into the sand!” BEN-HUR ...

"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 ...