Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under replacement director Fred Niblo, filming resumed in Rome, which had been under the control of Mussolini's National Fascist ...

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 ...

The most well-known filmed version of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel is, of course, Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins and Stephen Boyd. What, then, does this latest version do for both the ...

In a summer with few outright bombs (but plenty of relative disappointments), Ben-Hur is probably going to be a disaster. The MGM and Paramount/Viacom Inc. release opened with (as of this writing) $11 ...