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 ...

Every year, five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category. Each of the projects nominated this year offer a unique, inside look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and ...

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 ...

Follow the struggles of the living animals author Rudyard Kipling described in “The Jungle Book." Filmed entirely on location in India, this documentary follows the struggles of the living characters ...

Since Disney's Animal Kingdom opened almost 20 years ago, it has been a park where guests spend the day - and only the day.That changes starting Friday when Animal Kingdom extends its hours to as late ...

The child star plays a young Indian boy raised by wolves. — -- Neel Sethi plays a young Indian boy raised by wolves in “The Jungle Book,” but the young actor’s audition for the movie had nothing ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

“The Jungle Book” demanded verisimilitude in its effects, but employed no real animals in photography, unlike “Life of Pi,” which employed its fantasy elements to dramatize the visual effects and a ...

As I settled in Tuesday night for a screening of Disney and director Jon Favreau's new "Jungle Book" adaptation, a fellow audience member expressed to me a not-infrequent sentiment as of late. "I just ...

On the same grand scale of pictorial elaborateness which characterized Thief of Bagdad, Alexander Korda brings again to the screen the diminutive East Indian player, Sabu, in a film version of Rudyard ...