Jon Favreau The Jungle Book

The Lion King is now a billion-dollar movie, hitting that milestone less than three weeks into its global opening. In doing so, it gave Disney the fourth billion-dollar title for 2019, after Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Aladdin.

The Lion King looks set to cross Rs. 100 crores in India at the box office by the end of Friday, as it closed the first week of its release with a total gross of Rs. 97.12 crores (about $14 million), per numbers provided by Disney India.

The official website confirmed The Walt Disney Studios and American filmmaker and director of the hit success, The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau are putting a "new re-imagining of The Lion King" on the fast track to production

Director Jon Favreau revisits the story of man-cub Mowgli for Jungle Book 2. The Jungle Book released this month with actor Neel Sethi as Mowgli

The film has a human actor (Neel Sethi) front and center in the role of Mowgli, and Jon Favreau has said that viewers need that human connection to relate to his film's emotional palette. But it's the visual palette here that renders this film so particularly fascinating

Yes, there are dark tones to the film. A lot of clues came from looking at how Walt Disney would do it, especially with his early animation. It was not made for kids. We are trying to show it something like that," said Jon Favreau

Just when you thought the Indian censors were done messing around with the movies you most want to see, the Board has gone ahead and given Disney's 2016 update of the beloved children's classic The Jungle Book a rating of U/A. This is a rating that indicates a film contains mild violence, sensuality and/or language unsuitable for children under 12....

"Tales of The Jungle Book have been an intrinsic part of most of our growing up years. We are thrilled to confirm that Disney's all-new live-action epic, The Jungle Book, will be out in Indian theatres a week prior to the US release," said the Vice President of Disney India

Jon Favreau has directed the film which is the latest live action adaptation of a Disney venture following the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast. The production house posted a very short video on Instagram on Sunday which shows a young silhouetted boy standing amidst the setting of a wild jungle

Ben Kingsley is to provide the voice of panther Bagheera, Lupita Nyongo will play Raksha the wolf and Christopher Walken will voice orangutang King Louie

An Indian-American boy will play Mowgli's character in Disney production's "The Jungle Book" adaptation.

Idris Elba is already on board to voice the villainous tiger Sher Khan, while Scarlett Johansson will lend her sound to Kaa, Mowgli's charming python ally

The Lion King is now a billion-dollar movie, hitting that milestone less than three weeks into its global opening. In doing so, it gave Disney the fourth billion-dollar title for 2019, after Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Aladdin.

The Lion King looks set to cross Rs. 100 crores in India at the box office by the end of Friday, as it closed the first week of its release with a total gross of Rs. 97.12 crores (about $14 million), per numbers provided by Disney India.

The official website confirmed The Walt Disney Studios and American filmmaker and director of the hit success, The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau are putting a "new re-imagining of The Lion King" on the fast track to production

Director Jon Favreau revisits the story of man-cub Mowgli for Jungle Book 2. The Jungle Book released this month with actor Neel Sethi as Mowgli

The film has a human actor (Neel Sethi) front and center in the role of Mowgli, and Jon Favreau has said that viewers need that human connection to relate to his film's emotional palette. But it's the visual palette here that renders this film so particularly fascinating

Yes, there are dark tones to the film. A lot of clues came from looking at how Walt Disney would do it, especially with his early animation. It was not made for kids. We are trying to show it something like that," said Jon Favreau

Just when you thought the Indian censors were done messing around with the movies you most want to see, the Board has gone ahead and given Disney's 2016 update of the beloved children's classic The Jungle Book a rating of U/A. This is a rating that indicates a film contains mild violence, sensuality and/or language unsuitable for children under 12....

"Tales of The Jungle Book have been an intrinsic part of most of our growing up years. We are thrilled to confirm that Disney's all-new live-action epic, The Jungle Book, will be out in Indian theatres a week prior to the US release," said the Vice President of Disney India

Jon Favreau has directed the film which is the latest live action adaptation of a Disney venture following the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast. The production house posted a very short video on Instagram on Sunday which shows a young silhouetted boy standing amidst the setting of a wild jungle

Ben Kingsley is to provide the voice of panther Bagheera, Lupita Nyongo will play Raksha the wolf and Christopher Walken will voice orangutang King Louie

An Indian-American boy will play Mowgli's character in Disney production's "The Jungle Book" adaptation.

Idris Elba is already on board to voice the villainous tiger Sher Khan, while Scarlett Johansson will lend her sound to Kaa, Mowgli's charming python ally