History Trivia / BenHur2016

* CaliforniaDoubling: The Jerusalem scenes were filmed in Matera, Basilicate, in the South of Italy.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 Million. Box Office, $94.1 million (Worldwide). The film failed to reap in the profits that the [[Film/BenHur1959 1959 version]] pulled. This was one of several bombs in 2016 that ended the presidency of Paramount alumni Brad Grey.

** 2016 aka the year of flops, of which only a few made more that $100 million domestically and none reached $200 million domestically, ended the job of Paramount president Brad Grey; he received a vote of confidence from the Redstones, though, but after other flops that extended into early 2017, Grey resigned and died of cancer a few months later.

* CreatorKiller: Chipped in joint by Paramount and [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]].

* HeyItsThatPlace: The Jerusalem scene were filmed in the old Southern Italian city of Matera, which would be used as the city on Themyscira in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' (with some added CGI scenery) in addition to already [[CaliforniaDoubling doubling as]] UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} in a ton of biblical films. In a rare instance of non-Italian film where the city appears as itself, there's ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

** Creator/TomHiddleston and Creator/OliviaCooke were initially considered for the film.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $26,410,477 (domestic), $94,061,311 (worldwide). One of the final bombs in the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, a period that saw at least 10 other high-budget films fail either critically or commercially (or both) at the box office. It was a truly dreadful time for Creator/{{Paramount}} in particular.

* HeyItsThatPlace: The Jerusalem scene were filmed in Matera, which would be used as the city on Themyscira in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' (with some added CGI scenery) in addition to already [[CaliforniaDoubling doubling as]] UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} in a ton of biblical films. In a rare instance of non-Italian film where the city appears as itself, there's ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Rodrigo Santoro reprised his role as Jesus Christ for the Brazilian Portuguese dub.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $26,410,477 (domestic), $94,061,311 (worldwide). One of the final bombs in the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, a period that saw at least 10 other high-budget films fail either critically or commercially (or both) at the box office. It was a truly dreadful time for Creator/{{Paramount}}.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $26,410,477 (domestic), $94,061,311 (worldwide). One of the final bombs in the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, a period that saw at least 10 other high-budget films fail either critically or commercially (or both) at the box office, a truly dreadful time for Creator/{{Paramount}}.

* HeyItsThatPlace: The Jerusalem scene were filmed in Matera, which would be used as the city on Themyscira in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' (with some added CGI scenery) in addition to [[CaliforniaDoubling doubling as]] UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} in a ton of biblical films. In a rare instance of non-Italian film where the city appears as itself, there's ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Animated ''Ben-Hur: A Race For Glory''(1992) had a prologue of a younger Judah and Messala bonding before the latter joins the army, and ends with the two reconciling (although the cartoon had it happen during Palm Sunday).

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Animated ''Ben-Hur:ARaceForGlory''(1992) had a prologue of a younger Judah and Messala bonding before the latter joins the army, and ends with the two reconciling (although the cartoon had it happen during Palm Sunday).

** Creator/TomHiddleston and Creator/OliviaCooke were initially considered for the film.