Like most people that have laid eyes on The Jungle Book, Mowgli director Andy Serkis is a huge fan of Disney’s 1967 take on Rudyard Kilpling’s collection of short stories. Yet, as such an avid fan of ...

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 ...

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.

First-time actor Neel Sethi as Mowgli with a wolf cub in Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling’s beloved The Jungle Book is being given new life as Disney releases its second ...

THINK of “The Jungle Book”, and Mowgli and Baloo swinging to the cheery “Bare Necessities” inevitably springs to mind. Indeed, Walt Disney dropped a first script—allegedly—for the 1967 animation as it ...

“Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is a bloody good version of “The Jungle Book.” And I do mean bloody. Mowgli the man-cub is introduced as an infant, covered in blood. It’s the blood of his mother, slain ...

We all know what adventures man-cub Mowgli had in the jungle, but what happened when he returned to his kind? A Netflix Original film directed by actor Andy Serkis, “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is ...

Although Warner Bros. waited patiently for two years to release Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, so that it wouldn’t have to compete with Walt Disney’s highly enjoyable 2016 live-action take on The ...

The child star plays a young Indian boy raised by wolves. — -- Neel Sethi plays a young Indian boy raised by wolves in “The Jungle Book,” but the young actor’s audition for the movie had nothing ...