Bagheera, a black panther, finds the human baby Mowgli in the Indian jungle. He takes the child to a wolf family, where Mowgli lives for ten years. But when the tiger Shere Khan takes notice, Bagheera ...

Disney’s 1967 version of The Jungle Book is a movie about a young boy in peril that never makes its audience feel a palpable sense of danger. When we think about Mowgli’s animated journey to the ...

Disney dusts off The Jungle Book on April 15, when it releases a new take on its 1967 animated fable (loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling short stories that gave it its name) about Mowgli, a young ...

THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967) was Disney’s 19th animated feature and the last that Walt himself had a hand in, though it wasn’t released in theaters until nearly a year after his death.Sebastian Cabot, Phil ...

"If anything happens to that kid, I'll never forgive myself." — Baloo (Bill Murray). I didn't like to watch Disney cartoon movies as a kid. Couldn't stand 'em, really, and my disdain for them only ...

Of all of the impressive details to appear on screen in Disney’s live-action adaptation of “The Jungle Book,” none is more startling than a title card at the close of the end credits reading: “Filmed ...

"Why are they making it, if the old one was so good?" From the mouths of babes. The question was posed by my 10-year-old when I mentioned I was off to watch a new version of The Jungle Book. Let's be ...

Ten-year-old Neel Sethi stars as Mowgli, the "man-cub" lost in the jungles of India as a child, and raised by a wolf pack and the doting but patrician black panther Bagheera (voiced by Ben Kingsley).

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The durability of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories depends on their not quite being allegories. The idea of a young boy having ...

With the passage of time comes the desire to update earlier works for newer generations with different sensibilities and tastes. With traditional 2D animation having essentially been phased out of ...