Here’s your daily dose of an indie film in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the ...

The clumsy, vine-swinging George first swung onto screens in cartoon form in 1967 with the series George of the Jungle, created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott – the latter of which also voiced the titular ...

Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. I use quotes around live-action because ...

The last time director Jon Favreau was given the choice of submitting a CG remake as an animated film, he opted not to The shorthand description for Disney’s new movie “The Lion King” is that it’s yet ...

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 ...

To turn Disney’s classic cartoon The Jungle Book into a live-action movie, director Jon Favreau had to look for the bare necessities. Favreau tells Yahoo Movies that he grew up watching the 1967 ...

The series, which the companies will be shopping to buyers at MIPCOM, explores Mowgli's life before the age of 11. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Created by Josh Fisher, Jungle Book: Cub Club ...

The 1967 animated The Jungle Book was—for no specific reason I can discern—the only Disney movie allowed in our home when my little brother and I were growing up. So it was the only one we watched.

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, ...