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Hour 1 Waves strike North America Hour 5 Tsunami front passes Hawaii Hour 10 First waves reach Japan Hur 15 Philippines, New Zealand hit Hour 20 Tsunami spans Pacific ocean
...time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments? at #5, the 1959 ?Ben-Hur? at 13, ?The Robe? at 43 and ?The Bells of St. Mary...
...Samuel Bronston reinvented the epic for the '60s. Actually, he exploited the popularity of other people's late-'50s Biblical spectacles ("The Ten Commandments," "Ben Hur") to acquire financing for grand frescos of national heroes ("El Cid") and collapsing monarchies ("The Fall of the Roman Empire") in smart, stately films from screenwriter Philip Yordan and ace auteurs Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann. Ray's "King of Kings" has Jeffrey Hunter, who was gorgeous and effusively manly in "The Searchers" a few years before, as a Jesus with star quality to spare - which the original must also have had. In orange...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW EPICS. The side-by-side race in The Fast and the Furious is a modern Ben-Hur chariot race. Instead of re-creating ancient Rome and bossing around thousands of extras in togas, directors get to re-create a strip of the San Diego Freeway and wreck lots of cars. That's the majesty of being in charge of an action film. In Hollywood you're not a true creator unless you can destroy stuff...
...SCOTT, 90, actress who originated the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town onstage and repeated it in the 1940 film, for which she received an Oscar nomination; in Los Angeles. She also played Charlton Heston's mother in two biblical epics, The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur...