BEN HUR FLOPS

>After pulling in about $4 million on Friday, “Ben-Hur” is looking at a dismal opening weekend at the box office in the range of $11 million at 3,084 locations.

>The film, from Paramount and MGM, is eyeing a fourth or fifth place finish this weekend despite a big budget of about $100 million.

>Paramount and MGM, which co-financed “Ben-Hur,” had been hoping for a $20 million launch by appealing to faith-based customers, but other trackers were accurate in forecasting a debut in the $10 million to $15 million range.

>“Ben-Hur” has a 31% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman and Toby Kebbell.

So did anyone see this crap?

Why did they make this honestly? What was the audience?

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who the fuck is "ben-hur"

sorry gramps, we don't believe in fairy tales anymore.

They remade Ben-Hur?

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea

Is this one of those movies that exists only to transfer money around hollywood?

GOOD

MAYBE YOU SHITSTAINS WILL STOP FUCKING REMAKING EVERY GOD DAMN MOVIE UNDER THE SUN AND PRODUCE SOME ORIGINAL STORIES

If they were after the religious audience they should have retained some of the class of the original instead of making it look like a shitty made for TV teen drama. The fact they thought anyone would watch this is astounding.

They'll just assume they remade the wrong film.

Hollywood is abysmal currently.

They probably would have made a better turnover rereleasing the Heston one

CHRISTFAGS BTFO

When will they try to remake Citizen Kane?

It can't be far off.

There's this thing movie studios do now, it's called marketing. Not that I would have seen it anyway, but I had no idea this was even coming out until the day after it hit theatres.

Money laundering.

>try to remake ben-hur
>flops

I mean, Morgan Freeman is in it running around with fake dreads

weak bro

ben-hur is a jewish hero

Original Ben Hur is amazing movie.

Remake? CGI looks shit as shit. Old movie and building real fake cities?

Fuck you Hollywood. SS and now this? Homos running those studios now days.

Who gives a shit.

>Ben Hur (1959) Running Time: 212 minutes
>Ben Hur (2016) Running Time: 123 minites
Well there's your problem

they have one in the making actually with kanye west called citizen kanye

>Toby Kebbell

I love him but he's been in so many shit films

He deserves better

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Is this the biggest flop of all time?

no

>remaking a remake

>Jesus is in the movie
>Ben Hur is a Jewish movie
nice try

How does Timur Bekmambetov keeps getting work. He's stuck in the early 2000's clipmaker mentality, how would anyone think he can make something passable even

So is Jesus

i thought this movie was a joke when the trailers came out and it looked like a tv show until freeman showed up

Freeman is just doing this for money right?

Even so: why the hell did he bother starring in this? He looks ridiculous

Real ridiculous

When has Morgan Freeman ever had high standards?

If this is the final scene no wonder this crap flopped

youtube.com/watch?v=2YKOqrwiaT4

>inb4 plebs start to say "no one cares about religious movies anymore hence it bombed"
No that is not the point at all. The point is them deciding to remake a classic!

Go and make a religious movie that hasn't been made yet

do you know how many half white children he has fathered? he has got to pay the bills somehow

GO! GO!

Is there a Scientology movie?
That could be breddy gud since it's basically just Star Wars anyway.

>Jesus is white

When will this meme stop? He probably looked more like my arabian neighbour Mohammed.

The modern flavor of religious film is after school specials about ebul fedoras, not historical epics.

Isn't that the actor who played an orc in the Warcraft movie? Or not

Why don't they release them the same time in Europe as well. Not out till October here

maybe an all female cast would have helped

battlefield earth

Louis Theroux's made one

>Is there a Scientology movie?

Battlefield Earth
After Earth
Any more?

Yeah and it blows. Jesus has lines and you see his face

>Is there a Scientology movie?
Scientology belief about an early God race is similar to the ancient Summerian faith.

They could make a movie about that (the Ancient Iraqi faith)

But then modern day super hero movies (X Men Apolcaypse, Batman V Superman) incorporate the ancient Alien theory (Also Prometheus incorporates this)

>Louis Theroux's made one
You mean the silly re-actment "mokumentary"?

Seriously how can anyone take his Scientology seriously when 80% of it is re-actments and the other 20% being followed by Scientologists telling him to go away...

Not an actual documentary at all. Sure he interviews this ex Scientologist who gives him facts but that still isn't proof without showing anything

Heston's Ben-Hur was a remake

So was the Ten Commandments

Ben Hur was like 5 hours long. They remade it?

The only film that has generated 10/10 remakes everytime it is remade is The Phantom of the Opera.

This is because that film has incorporated SO MANY genres from drama to musical to R rated horror. It's amazing what you can do with one story.

Pic related is the 1989 horror version. Absolutely fantastic!

He's always been able to get results with low budgets and I think Wanted being something of a hit helped him. A flop of this scale will hurt his career though. This is the first film he's ever made that cost $100 million to make and it's going to lose a shitload.

Tom please

yep... into a watered down 2 hour movie

He's trying to The Act of Killing the former leaders of Scientology.

MOAR LIEK HURR DURR

You are actually defending Louis' film?

I love Louis' other stuff but his scientology one just cannot be called a "documentary" at all

>He's trying to The Act of Killing
What you said made no sense. Can you re word it so it makes sense

The problem is that there's no reverence in religious movies anymore, they just market it as a shitty action movie and sweep the religious aspects under the rug in an attempt to trick normies into seeing it while simultaneously assuming anyone religious will see it on name and subject matter alone

he was played by the guy who played xerxes in 300

>MOAR LIEK HURR DURR
HOLY SHIT

>implying
They probably foresaw it as being some weak ass propaganda nothing like Hestons

Tell that to Mel Gibson's sequel to the Passion of the Christ that he wants to make

Have you seen the use of re-enactments in The documentary called The act of killing?
He tried to get the same effect with the former higher ups in Scientology but mostly failed.

I agree theres better Scientology documentaries but its still a "actual documentary".

>but its still a "actual documentary".
nah

I bet he won't even go into detail on the actual beliefs of Scientology and their spirituality faith

>I bet he won't even go into detail on the actual beliefs of Scientology and their spirituality faith
Nope he probably won't he'll focus on the people he's interviewing like he always does. Doesn't make it not a documentary.
Documentaries on there beliefs have already been done Praise Xenu

>Ben-Hurr-Durr

We need to just stop making movies, and television. Theres enough material out there to entertain us for lifetimes. Its a colossal waste of human effort at this point.

Who did they think would be attracted to this?

The only people that know the name Ben-Hur in 2016 are old people that saw it when it was culturally relevant, and young people interested or exposed to old movies. Neither is probably interested in this kind of film, or clearly not since it bombed horribly

>Documentaries on there beliefs have already been done
Only very briefly and still I can bet that most Louis fans won't even know about Scientology and so if you are just going to focus on the rage of what Miscavige did to people inside; well that is telling no one on their actual spiritual faith.

Their faith on Aliens isn't actually so far fetched as you think

I only knew about it because apparently a shitton of horses died in the making of the original.

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This film also had zero advertisement or commercials.

If it wasn't for Sup Forums, I wouldn't have known that there was a remake.

The same goes for the Assassin's Creed movie that has had no advertisement at all. I hope that one doesn't bomb

DESU all the people who loved Ben Hur are dead right now. They need to just keep remaking cape shit for 30-40 year old manchildren

Well that sucks

WE

>december
>one week after rogue one

if they thought ass creed was counter programing to star wars, then yikes

>Heston's Ben-Hur was a remake
... yeah, a remake of a 1920's silent film.

Golden Age Hollywood remakes don't really hold to the same criticism as modern remake schlock.

You're implying that movies and television is even about making more entertainment, and not just about making more money.

>one brother in white
>the other in black
its like poetry

I didn't even start seeing commercials for this until a week ago and it came out yesterday?

Marketing department sucks dick

>by appealing to faith-based customers

all of those are in retirement hosues suffering from either dementia, alzheimer or both.

we, new generations do not believe in fairy tales.

the ass creed movie will be ok since it will be shilled by NEETs on /r/gaming

tell that to the muzzies fucking swedes

This lol^

huh, no wonder society is going to shit.

She was so young looking but sucked at porn so I'm glad she's gone.

Jesus Whoopi, get some self respect and shave those whiskers.

That might work, because Mel Gibson seems like someone who actually cares about the topic
Whoever made Ben-Hur 2016 sure didn't seem to

>"we need to fear an omnipotent bearded zombie magician in order to respect laws and do good"

I swear to god Milena Velba must drug all her models or make them sign a contract to never ever shoot porn with a dick in it ever

>mfw Alamo Drafthouse is showing the original instead

Morgan Freeman is like the black Ron Pearlman at this point, the fucker just takes anything that comes on his table if the money is right. I've pretty much learned to pass on any movie staring him now because it'll probably be shit and by probably I mean most def.

>tfw like Jack Huston though

>sheaths blade
>takes it back out the second he walks out the door

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he deserves much better though

evidently, yes. glad you agree.

>yah, yah!
Do people really think this makes horses go faster?

>tfw they will be making civil war and gotg remakes 50 years from now
i really want to let go of this feel

>we need an undisputed foundation upon which a system of morality can be built

ftfy

you don't need fantasy for that, it's just the easy way for it.