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 ...

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'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/ ...

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Walt Disney's new Jungle Book movie is a fresh take on their nearly 50-year-old animated classic of the same name, but with a few modern updates. For one, the new film isn't animated, it's a hybrid of ...

There are all the other storybook villains who have prowled their way into the Disney canon, and then there's Shere Khan the tiger. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the savage cat will stop at ...

Artists have used mixed media with great success to push the boundaries of art. Picasso's use of collage, for instance, helped develop methods of expression in Cubism. In an effort to push book ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to The Jungle Book. Sort of. Most of the stars of the upcoming live-action remake of The Jungle Book don't actually get to appear in the movie, as they are voicing CGI animals (because, you ...