To turn Disney’s classic cartoon The Jungle Book into a live-action movie, director Jon Favreau had to look for the bare necessities. Favreau tells Yahoo Movies that he grew up watching the 1967 ...

Jon Favreau is an unapologetic Disney devotee. He knows the old movies backwards and forwards. His Apple Watch face is, unsurprisingly, Mickey Mouse. His fandom helped earn him the gig of directing ...

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, ...

Disney's 2016 live-action remake of the classic 1967 The Jungle Book animated film honors its source material in some ways, but it also lacks something that many Disney films lack. The original 1967 ...