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 ...

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a darker reimagination of the Disney classic The Jungle Book, following essentially the same plotline without the charm of the original films. The movie starts with the ...

The animals of The Jungle Book steal the show from little Mowgli most of the time, and his first interaction with Baloo in the new live action adaptation is no different. The unmistakable voice of ...

Sadly there was no shot of Bill Murray posing with a bear last week when Disney released a cool series of shots placing its Jungle Book stars alongside the animals they voice. But now we’ve got a full ...

The Jungle Book IMAX Trailer. Jon Favreau‘s The Jungle Book (2016) IMAX movie trailer has been released and is introduced by Lupita Nyong’o. Nyong’o touts the benefits of IMAX viewing and that it is ...

Based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the wilds of India. Raised by a panther, an elephant and a bear, Mowgli must learn ...

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.

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 ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 ...

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 ...