Jon Favreau's "Jungle Book" remake melds photo-realistic animals with human expression -- and has just as much heart as the animated original. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Much has been made of the innovative virtual filmmaking techniques used to create Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book. And while that aspect of the production was clearly a key part in helping a young actor ...

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The new live-action Jungle Book movie comes out in April and to promote the film, Disney has now released a series of shots that show actors posing with the animals they play in the picture. Included ...

Feel free to skip a summertime visit to the zoo: Director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book redo is the closest you’re going to get to being plopped right in the middle of one seriously wild kingdom.

If you’ve been wondering just how director Jon Favreau will turn Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” into a photo-realistic film complete with talking animals, now’s your chance to see. The first ...

LAS VEGAS -- A years-old Disney policy meant to restrict the use of exotic animals in its films is no doubt a good thing, but if you happen to be making a movie primarily starring exotic animals, it ...

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a popular book, adapted repeatedly into movies, and sanitised along the way. The original and the adaptations have been repeatedly criticised for racism, cultural ...

Disney’s “Jungle Book” uses CGI animals, earning PETA’s praise for director Jon Favreau. “It’s very hard to teach an animal to talk from what I understand,” Favreau joked to us at a Cinema Society ...

In his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling offers quaintly mythic etiology-accounts or origin stories for such phenomena as the tides (“The Crab That Played With the Sea”) and the distinctive features of ...