A new trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle debuted during Netflix’s slate event in Singapore, along with the release date. The new take on the Rudyard Kipling classic will make its way to theaters in an exclusive limited engagement beginning November 29 in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Welcome to the jungle that is this fast-shifting movie meld between theatrical release and streaming. In the biggest acquisition of a finished film it has made so far, Netflix has acquired from Warner Bros the worldwide rights to Mowgli, the CGI live action film directed by Andy Serkis based on the Jungle Bo…

“Witness the darkest telling of the beloved masterpiece,” Warner Bros notes at the start of the first full trailer for Mowgli (fka Jungle Book: Origins). Solid take. “I bit and I scratched and I spent my entire life fighting,” the panther Bagheera (Christian Bale) tells the caged boy. “Until one day, I just stopped…

Remember when there were competing versions of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, before Disney’s version landed first, grossed $966M worldwide and spawned a sequel? Warner Bros screened a 2 1/2-minute trailer of the other film, now titled Mowgli (formerly titled Jungle Book: Origins) this evening at CinemaCon in Las…

There has been a slight change to Andy Serkis’ forthcoming Jungle Book: Origins. The title of the Warner Bros. project based on Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories officially has changed to Mowgli, Deadline has confirmed.

Slated to open on October 19, the film follows the titular character, who is raised by wolves…

Chosen from thousands of auditions, 10-year old Neel Sethi will be playing the part of Mowgli in Jon Favreau‘s version of Disney‘s The Jungle Book. Sethi was discovered after an extensive search ranging from New York to New Zealand, London to Canada, and India.  It’s Sethi’s first time up on the bigscreen and he’ll be…