Even as faith-based movies find their intended audience, the best religious movies are those that grapple with concepts that can be uncomfortable for believers.
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Timur Bekmambetov's remake of Ben-Hur will be Summer 2016's biggest box office bomb with a projected loss of over $120 million.
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It's The Phantom Menace vs Ben-Hur in a video that compares the podracing sequence from Star Wars to the chariot race of the Biblical drama from 1959.
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Watch the new Ben-Hur trailer and featurette. Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston star in Timur Bekmambetov's re-adaptation of the Biblical epic.
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We're back in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of movie theater exhibitors. As you probably know by now, theater owners from around the nation gather to, among other things, watch presentations from all of the major movie studios previewing their film slates for the upcoming year and beyond. The opening night presentation was…
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It's inevitable the new adaptation of Ben-Hur will be compared to the 1959 film, especially when it comes to recreating the classic Ben-Hur chariot race.
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According to director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch), this summer's Ben-Hur remake isn't the summer action movie some audiences might be expecting.
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Watch the Ben-Hur trailer. Jack Huston leads Timur Bekmambetov's re-adaptation of Lew Wallace's classic story. Toby Kebbell also stars.
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A year and a half ago, Jack Huston landed the lead role in Timur Bekmambetov's Ben-Hur, and this could be his big break. Check out Ben-Hur first look.
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Many films today are completed with the help of visual effects. But that wasn't always the case. Take a look at biggest movie sets in cinema's history.
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Ben-Hur has cast Nazanin Boniadi in the female lead. Boniadi, who currently plays CIA agent Fara on Showtime's Homeland, will star opposite Jack Huston.
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Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal is in talks for Ben-Hur. He'll join Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, and Morgan Freeman in the Timur Bekmambetov-directed epic.
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Gal Gadot is in early talks for the Ben-Hur remake directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Jack Huston. She'll play a slave named Esther.
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Ben-Hur adds Toby Kebbell as villain Messala. Jack Huston was previously cast as hero Judah Ben-Hur. Timur Bekmambetov is directing the epic.
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Ben-Hur casts Jack Huston in the lead role. He joins Morgan Freeman, who plays Ildarin. Timur Bekmambetov is directing the Biblical epic.
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Morgan Freeman joins Ben-Hur, becoming its first star. Timur Bekmambetov is directing the new adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel.
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Paramount and MGM want Tom Hiddleston for their Ben-Hur remake. He'd be stepping into the same role portrayed by Charlton Heston in the 1959 version.
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MGM's Ben-Hur remake has set a release date of February 26, 2016. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, EPs of History's The Bible miniseries, will produce.
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Eight months ago, MGM bought the rights to Ben-Hur, a new spec script based on the nineteenth century novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. That news was so crazy, I had wiped it out of my memory. MGM didn't though, and now the project is progressing. The latest update is that Timur Bekmambetov, the director of…
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The 1959 film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is one of the most revered films of all-time. Along with classics such as Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz, it's regularly in the discussion of the best American films ever made. Which, one would think, would make a remake off limits.…
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