The Jungle Book is one of the most beloved classic Disney cartoons, and has been ever since its release in 1967. Loosely based off of the stories by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book was one of the ...

Disney’s animated classic, The Jungle Book, was released in 1967. In it, a little boy named Mowgli gets left behind and brought up in the jungle by a pack of wolves. Ultimately, he ends up in an ...

Full disclosure: When I was growing up, “The Jungle Book” was my jam. And as an adult, “forget about your worries and your strife” — the simplest of the “Bare Necessities” lines — is a guiding mantra.

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Spectacular and thrilling, Jon Favreau’s not-really-live-action update weaves Kipling and the Disney classic into family film near-perfection. It’s not just that The Jungle Book is smart, thrilling, ...

LOS ANGELES — Last month, a truck pulled up to director Jon Favreau's home and dropped off crates of plush toys based upon his movie The Jungle Book — boxes filled with the tiger Shere Khan (voiced by ...

How does director Jon Favreau update Rudyard Kipling’s classic story “The Jungle Book,” already a Disney animated favorite from 1967? He looks to “Planet Earth.” The animals rendered in stunning 3-D ...

Performance capture guru Andy Serkis’ ill-conceived adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' focuses too much on technology, not enough on character. Let’s pretend for a moment that Disney didn’t just release ...

Andy Serkis has given life to many unreal and unnatural characters over the course of his career. But the man behind the motion-captured face of Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” series and Caesar in ...