It’s Earth Day on Friday, and I’m feeling old, older than dirt. My melancholy started last weekend after seeing Disney’s remake of its 1967 animated classic, “The Jungle Book.” I loved “The Jungle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credits: Walt Disney Pictures Disney’s animated classic, The Jungle Book, was released in 1967. In it, a little boy named Mowgli ...

NEW YORK – Disney's "The Jungle Book" has dethroned "Avatar" as cinema's best-looking 3D live-action-CGI hybrid extravaganza. With "The Jungle Book," director Jon Favreau ("Iron Man") has raised the ...

Spectacular and thrilling, Jon Favreau’s not-really-live-action update weaves Kipling and the Disney classic into family film near-perfection. It’s not just that The Jungle Book is smart, thrilling, ...

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.

10-year-old New York native Neel Sethi, who to date has zero big screen acting experience, has been tabbed for the role of a lifetime: Mowgli in Disney’s updated version of The Jungle Book. This ...