Ben-Hur (August 19)
This is another film, like The Legend of Tarzan, that seems destined for the loser pile by summer’s end. How do you even remake a larger-than-life film like Ben-Hur? In a world where Ridley Scott remade it twice and called it Gladiator the first time and Exodus: Gods and Kings the second, it seems passe, which is a term no one thought to use when the 1958 original came out. All respect to director Timur “Russian Spielberg” Bekmambatov (Wanted) and stars Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell (and bored-looking, dread-wearing Morgan Freeman), but even my interest in brother-vs-brother rivalries can’t get anything in me to root for this movie.
Summer 2016 is bursting at the seams and it seems likely that at least half of the films on this list will fail to make their huge budgets back. With such an extreme rise in high-loss, high-reward studio filmmaking, even the maestro himself Steven Spielberg determined it was unsustainable. So even as summer movies move out of summer movie season, weekends at the theater will only get bloodier for blockbusters over time.
Our first proper look at Harrison Ford's return!
Budget issues plagued the superhero production.
The actor also shared he didn't do any reshoots for the Snyder Cut.
Ewan McGregor shared his thoughts on the puppet with fellow Star Wars star Pedro Pascal.
The film will also be available for Premiere Access on Disney Plus.
Multiverses on multiverses!