Bill Murray has joined the cast of Disney’s “The Jungle Book” as the voice of Baloo the Bear. Previously announced cast include Christopher Walken as King Louie, Giancarlo Esposito as Akela, Ben ...

Jon Favreau’s upcoming, live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book has quite a few notable actors voicing the film’s jungle-inhabiting creatures, but one pairing of cast and character that’s generating ...

Ben Kingsley has been cast to voice the black panther Bagheera in Disney's live-action adaptation of “The Jungle Book,” the studio announced on Wednesday. Directed by Jon Favreau from a script by ...

It was just over two years ago that Disney’s live-action/computer-animated remake of The Jungle Book hit theaters, and did quite a number on the domestic and ...

Baloo (Mel White) chastises Mowgli (Willem Butler), while Bagheera (Marcus Gladney) looks on, in Huntsville M.E.T.'s production of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book". (c/o Huntsville M.E.T.) ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

LOS ANGELES — Last month, a truck pulled up to director Jon Favreau's home and dropped off crates of plush toys based upon his movie The Jungle Book — boxes filled with the tiger Shere Khan (voiced by ...

Full disclosure: When I was growing up, “The Jungle Book” was my jam. And as an adult, “forget about your worries and your strife” — the simplest of the “Bare Necessities” lines — is a guiding mantra.

How does director Jon Favreau update Rudyard Kipling’s classic story “The Jungle Book,” already a Disney animated favorite from 1967? He looks to “Planet Earth.” The animals rendered in stunning 3-D ...

In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to ...