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- MGM has found a way. The company, which released the original film but then sold the rights to Ted Turner, has just purchased a spec script by Keith Clarke (The Way Back) that is "much different" from the original film and "more faithful" to the original book, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.
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Ben-Hur saved MGM from financial disaster, [158] making a profit of $20,409,000 on its initial release, [4] and another $10.1 million in profits when re-released in 1969. [19] By 1989, Ben-Hur had earned $90 million in worldwide theatrical rentals.
Aug 19, 2016 · In 1959, Charlton Heston starred in Oscar-winning movie Ben-Hur. The question is: Why take another turn at making a film that defined epic when it was released, and was itself a remake?
Aug 18, 2016 · MGM first announced it was planning a remake of the 1925 silent classic "Ben-Hur" (based, in turn, on Lew Wallace's best-selling 1880 novel) in late 1952.
- Gary Susman
- Freelance Writer
Jan 15, 2013 · Though MGM does not own the rights to the film version of Ben-Hur (or a 1925 silent film of the same name) they can make this film beacuse the book, originally published in 1880, is in the...
- Germain Lussier
Aug 17, 2016 · Back in 1959, a remake of Ben-Hur was one of the biggest movies of all time and a winner of 11 Oscars. In 2016, it’s a mid-August release that almost no one is excited. With pre-release...
Time magazine, 1959 MGM’s 1925 version of Lew Wallace’s hugely popular novel Ben-Hur was one of the biggest hits of the silent era, but they outdid themselves with this lavish 1959 remake.
Aug 4, 2016 · Bekmambetov is attempting to create a whole world with his most expensive film to date, Ben-Hur, Paramount and MGM’s nearly $100 million-budget adaptation of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel. And he ...
