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Charlton Heston Dead at 84
April 6, 2008 | 21 Comments
Charlton Heston, who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills. He won an Oscar for best actor in the 1959 epic, Ben Hur. Heston marched with the Re...
Jack Huston
October 7, 2020 | Leave a Comment
English actor Jack Huston was poised for a big year in 2016. Coming off a pretty successful stint as a regular on the crime drama series Boardwalk Empire a few years prior, he was dabbling in a few films with smaller roles su...
Ben-Hur (1959) / Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
May 29, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Though we often view today’s version of Hollywood as being obsessed with the idea of remakes, that isn’t truly the case. Even during the Silver Age of Hollywood, remakes made up a big portion of the film industry ...
Planet of the Apes (1968)
May 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Planet of the Apes (1968)
In this scene from the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), George Taylor (Charlton Heston) understandably loses his mind when he finds out he has been on Earth the entire time. Imagine being stuck on a planet where talking prima...
Most wins by a film
February 15, 2017 | Comments Off on Most wins by a film
The 1959 biblical behemoth Ben-Hur is tied for top spot with the most overall Oscar wins by a film — 11 statuettes. Director William Wyler claimed Best Director with celebrated actor Charlton Heston taking home the award fo...
Planet of the Apes (1968)
August 31, 2016 | Leave a Comment
George Taylor (Charlton Heston) - After human couple George and Zira (Kim Hunter) escape from their ape captors, they find themselves free on an isolated beach. Riding a mighty steed across the sunny shoreline, they glance up...
Ben-Hur and the popularity of faith-based films
March 17, 2016 | 4 Comments
In the fall of 1959, a film called Ben-Hur, based on Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, widely considered the most influential Christian novel of the 19th century, was released to the movie-going masses. Dir...
Hollywood Casting News
May 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment
A sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is in the works. The film will have Michelle Yeoh reprising her role as Yu Shu Lien and Yuen Woo-Ping doing the fight choreography. The movie is titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane to announce Oscar nods
January 7, 2013 | 3 Comments
Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone on Thursday, January 10. MacFarlane and Stone will unveil the nominations at 8:30 a.m. ET at the Academy's ...
The Planet of the Apes
November 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Based on French author Pierre Boulle’s 1963 sci-fi novel, director Franklin J. Schaffner’s The Planet of the Apes has since seen four follow up films and a 2011 Tim Burton reboot since its initial 1968 release. We follo...