GHOSTBUSTERS AND THE JUNGLE BOOK may have been hard acts to follow,but a new blockbuster attempts to repurpose the biggest Hollywood behemoth of them - the chariot-racing epic Ben-Hur.
Paramount - still reeling form the unmitigated failure of Zoolander No.2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows,not to mention an underwhelming return on star terkbeyond - is banking on a hit.
But analysts fear the fourth attempt at this milestone in movie history will hit the rocks on its release on Friday,with a cast too obscure to draw in box office numbers justifying its US$100 million(3.4 billion bath) budget.