Like most people that have laid eyes on The Jungle Book, Mowgli director Andy Serkis is a huge fan of Disney’s 1967 take on Rudyard Kilpling’s collection of short stories. Yet, as such an avid fan of ...

Disney’s animated classic, The Jungle Book, was released in 1967. In it, a little boy named Mowgli gets left behind and brought up in the jungle by a pack of wolves. Ultimately, he ends up in an ...

The road to the release of “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” has been a long and winding one. Although technically it’s the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, the actor known primarily for motion-capture ...

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.

Motion-capture master Andy Serkis is tackling a familiar subject with his next project, "Mowgli," an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling novel "The Jungle Book." But as the actor-director explains, his film ...

Warner Bros. needs to convince moviegoers that they prefer their Kipling a bit darker. Director Andy Serkis promised that the film will be a “darker retelling” of the story that is far removed from ...

Hollywood’s history of competing projects – from Lambada and The Forbidden Dance to Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down – reaches its peak, or possible nadir, with the release of Mowgli: Legend of ...

“Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is a bloody good version of “The Jungle Book.” And I do mean bloody. Mowgli the man-cub is introduced as an infant, covered in blood. It’s the blood of his mother, slain ...

We all know what adventures man-cub Mowgli had in the jungle, but what happened when he returned to his kind? A Netflix Original film directed by actor Andy Serkis, “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is ...

This jubilant adventure begins when Mowgli, a little boy raised by wolves, is urged by his friend Bagheera, a wise old panther, to seek safety in the man-village. Feeling very much at home in the ...

So it turns out that Mowgli may be a girl. Mowgli is the hero of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling’s story collection about a wild boy raised by wolves in India. Most people are familiar with the story ...

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 ...