Jon Favreau's "Jungle Book" remake melds photo-realistic animals with human expression -- and has just as much heart as the animated original. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS -- A years-old Disney policy meant to restrict the use of exotic animals in its films is no doubt a good thing, but if you happen to be making a movie primarily starring exotic animals, it ...

Disney’s “Jungle Book” uses CGI animals, earning PETA’s praise for director Jon Favreau. “It’s very hard to teach an animal to talk from what I understand,” Favreau joked to us at a Cinema Society ...

If you’ve been wondering just how director Jon Favreau will turn Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” into a photo-realistic film complete with talking animals, now’s your chance to see. The first ...

Jon Favreau directs the latest film rendition of the Rudyard Kipling classic with sophisticated CGI visuals and a starry voice cast. By Todd McCarthy The beguilingly credible CGI rendering of ...