Ben-Hur News

Delightful costume drama that lifts the curtain on the pomp and pageantry of royal life to capture the human side of Britain's longest reigning monarch.

ORGANISERS of a new multi-million pound live version of swords and sandals epic Ben-Hur have signed up their mane man... a horse whisperer.

To mark the 50th year since the release of the epic film Ben Hur, Sky News Online has three copies of a three-disc collector's edition DVD to give away.

Q I have several souvenir movie programs from the 1950s and '60s. They go back to a time when we would go up to San Francisco for a special movie and a nice meal.

Actor Charlton Heston is gone, but "Ben-Hur" will ride again -- this time as a remake produced as a television mini-series. Daily Variety reported on Wednesday that the new TV version is being produced at a cost of $30 million by David Wyler, whose father, the late William Wyler, directed the 1959 big-screen biblical epic.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has given his approval to a stage show of Ben Hur that will only use the ancient languages of Latin and Aramaic.

The 5m production will show at the 20,000-seat O2 arena in London from 15-19 September.

MTV Movie Awards: It's vampires vs. slumdogs at the MTV Movie Awards, airing on MTV Canada May 31 at 9 p.m. Twilight has seven nominations vs.

Joseph Morgan, Emily VanCamp and Stephen Campbell Moore will star in "Ben-Hur," a four-hour miniseries set to air on ABC in 2010.

Were one to compile a list of British detective/mystery programs, the list would be impressively, but dauntingly, long.

Charlton Heston didn't know it, but his character in Ben-Hur had had an ill-fated love affair as a young man.

The unbelievable scale and complexity of movie productions, not to mention the unparalleled egos of the people who make them, make Tinseltown a veritable factory for gossip.

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Who wants to see a queer playing a queer... Anyone who's not homophobic who enjoys a really good movie, that's who.

In his legendary film career he played saints, geniuses, prophets, soldiers and even the occasional bad guy, but in real life, Charlton Heston was a genuine hero for his defence of civil rights for blacks and for the unborn.

'BEN Hur " will ride again in a miniseries set to air on ABC. The four-hour, $22.5 million project will be executive-produced by David Wyler, the son of William Wyler -- who directed the classic 1959 Oscar-winner starring Charlton Heston , Jack Hawkins and Steven Boyd.

JUST LIKE HEAVEN a ' Reese Witherspoon is charming in this pleasant 2005 fantasy-comedy. She plays a driven doctor who gets in a car accident; then her spirit haunts her apartment, which has been rented by a widower .

Displaying the screen's most persuasive combination of athleticism and self-aware intellectualism, Charlton Heston is among our most underappreciated movie stars.

JOHNNY Depp, intrepid rabbits and the trouble with Ben-Hur - in the film guide that has an obstructed view of the Stray.

Michael Jackson might be stealing all the headlines at The O2 this summer but there's another show heading to the venue that promises to be equally spectacular.