Smaller than Ben-Hur! Hollywood's most celebrated epic has been trimmed by an hour and 40 minutes. Gone are the lengthy Overture and Entr'acte in which Miklos Rozsa's bombastic music boomed against a ...

The Ben-Hur chariot race has returned to Rome. Under bright blue skies and through a filmic, dusty haze, drums beat, the crowd roars, four-horse chariots sweep past, the drivers strain at the reins.

Ben-Hur is the latest movie to be branded a box office bomb after a disastrous opening weekend in the US. The film reportedly cost $A131 million to make but raked in ...