“Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is not a Disney film, but it is a big, star-studded attraction with plenty of big names. Benedict Cumberbatch provides the voice of Shere Khan the tiger, Oscar winner ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Twelve-year-old Neel Sethi started his acting career in a big way - by playing Mowgli, the orphan being raised in the wild in Disney's live action version of "The Jungle Book." ...

As the year draws to a close, the march of live-action “re-imaginings” of classic kids’ animated feature films marches on. Well, technically it’s mostly CGI (or motion-capture) mixed with a bit of ...

Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who has lent his voice to the character of Bagheera in the Hindi version of Mowgli: The Legend of the Jungle, says it is wonderful for him as a parent to be able to share this ...

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 ...

If “The Jungle Book” is Disney transmuting Rudyard Kipling’s natural world into a fantasia of wonder, personality and song, Andy Serkis’ adaptation “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” — named for the ...

As we enter the new year, we continue to learn more about the new live-action version of The Jungle Book. The Jon Favreau-directed film hits theaters in just a few months, and so far we have seen a ...

This article first appeared on the Conversation. "Will it be a happy or a sad film?" asks my 11-year-old son in anticipation of Disney's new reboot of The Jungle Book. The answer depends on your ...

The initiative of Shakeel Akhter, additional commissioner of police (traffic), ‘Traffic Signs Jungle Book’ is centred around the popular cartoon characters, Mowgli and Baloo. CHENNAI: Edwin Arlington ...

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 ...

Walt Disney did not create The Jungle Book. That was the work of Rudyard Kipling, the British author, but just about every adaptation has followed the 1967 Disney version that throws aside every ...

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 ...