{"id":377554,"date":"2026-04-02T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:55:11","slug":"ben-hur-returns-to-the-big-screen-easter-classic-in-theaters-for-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377554\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ben-Hur&#8217; Returns to the Big Screen \u2013 Easter Classic in Theaters for 2 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest Hollywood films ever made, the 1959 blockbuster &#8220;Ben-Hur,&#8221; has returned to theaters for Holy Week as Christians around the world mark the final days before the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Fathom Entertainment is bringing the epic film back to the silver screen the way it was meant to be seen, for a limited time only, April 1-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomentertainment.com\/releases\/ben-hur-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to find tickets in your area.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Wyler&#8217;s masterpiece made history with a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor with Charlton Heston in the leading role as Judah Ben-Hur.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the film came from the best-selling novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ben-Hur-Tale-Christ-Complete-Unabridged\/dp\/1617203408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ<\/a>, published in 1880. The book tells the story of a life-altering encounter between a first-century Jewish prince and Jesus of Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the story of the title character as he journeys from being a member of Jewish nobility to being falsely accused and sentenced to certain death as a slave in a Roman galley ship.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Judah Ben-Hur meets Jesus, learns the power of forgiveness, and his life and family are forever changed.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how this powerful story of redemption came to be written. WATCH our CBN News report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2014\/April\/The-Real-Story-of-Ben-Hurs-Tale-of-the-Christ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Real Story of Ben-Hur&#8217;s &#8216;Tale of the Christ&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the greatest Hollywood films ever made, the 1959 blockbuster &#8220;Ben-Hur,&#8221; has returned to theaters for Holy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-377554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}