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Mo Money, Mo-Cap And Mo MOWGLI

You won’t be getting ‘The Bare Necessities’ with Andy Serki’s new telling of The Jungle Book, Mowgli. Will this score at the box office, or will audiences stay away in droves after shelling out $966 million globally to watch [...]

May 22, 2018

Oscars 2017: The Winners At The 89th Academy Awards – And That Big Mix-Up!

It’s highly likely the 89th Academy Awards wouldn’t have been particularly memorable it hadn’t been for the major mix-up with the climatic announcement for Best Picture. However, somehow the folks from PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]

February 27, 2017

Jeez… Will Smith And Tom Hanks Starring In Tim Burton’s DUMBO For Disney

I like Will Smith, I like Tom Hanks, I like Tim Burton and I like Disney. I really don’t need to see the four of them join forces to bring me a live action version of the 1941 animated film Dumbo. Burton’s a definite but Smith and [...]

January 12, 2017

Jon Favreau Talks About How He Used Part Of The Animated JUNGLE BOOK In His Movie

Jon Favreau is a director who has his head screwed on – and he’s an enthusiastic chap when it comes to talking about movie-making. See him get excited talking about how a piece of the 1967 animated version of The Jungle Book ended up in his [...]

August 8, 2016

Book Review: THE ART OF THE JUNGLE BOOK Is Filled With Great Imagery

Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book takes the popular 1967 Disney cartoon (and Rudyard Kipling’s novel) and turns it into a visually impressive live action feature which is stacked with an A-list voice cast that includes Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, [...]

May 1, 2016

Look For The Bare Necessities In This Teaser Trailer For Disney’s Live Action THE JUNGLE BOOK

Disney‘s The Jungle Book gets the live action (read: CGI) treatment from director Jon Favreau. This will likely score a lot of green from families when it’s released next Spring, but you can’t help but feel there’s nothing new going on [...]

September 15, 2015