Ben Hurl.
Further proof that some movies just should not be remade.
I thought Ben-Hur (1959)was long and boring so why do a remark when today’s remakes are crap
Row well and live 41
GB has brought in 220 million world wide, it's pretty much dead at this point. It will be less than a million dollars take for this week. Production and marketing budget of about 270+ million. BUT the studios only get about 55 cents on the dollar for box office take. So they are netting only about 120 million of the box office. I highly doubt rentals will come anywhere close to making up the 150 million balance.
Why a remake? The last version (a good one) is still fresh in the minds of mature movie goers; and, if millennials were interested in the subject matter they could watch that one. A remake would not, and apparently did not, attract them.
I’ve heard it’s pretty decent, but I have a hard time getting past my ‘white privilege’ and paying Morgan Freeman for anything.
The money might have been better spent by restoring enhancing and the re-releasing the 1959 version. It was years after first seeing in in TV full screen that I finally saw it in the original CinemaScope 70mm format. The improvement was worth it.
Why does CGI cost so much?
It is bits and bytes. Not bucks.
“The ancient tale”?? The novel was written in 1880 by Lew Wallace
Some movies simply do not need to be remade. Samuel Jackson needs to slow his roll as he has become very much over exposed and unwatchable. I will never watch a movie with him as I am tired of his same old schtick. His character is tired and been done too many times. He’s Pulp Fiction in every movie, even when he affects a different voice, cannot be a different character to save his life. Even his commercials are tiresome. Retire Mr Jackson, you’re done.