The canned British character study “Mogul Mowgli” disappoints on a few levels, especially given its admirable focus on authenticity and cultural identity in a kitchen-sink drama about Zed (Riz Ahmed), ...

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle has had quite the road to the big screen. Originally developed in competition with Disney’s 2016 remake of the classic animated film, Mowgli was eventually pushed back ...

This playful lab is ready to bring you a toy (or his leash), so you bring him home. He's available for adoption through the ...

Hollywood’s history of competing projects – from Lambada and The Forbidden Dance to Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down – reaches its peak, or possible nadir, with the release of Mowgli: Legend of ...

Serkis tells how he used high-tech filming techniques to transform Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale for his version of The Jungle Book. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, ...

Andy Serkis has given life to many unreal and unnatural characters over the course of his career. But the man behind the motion-captured face of Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” series and Caesar in ...

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle begins an exclusive limited theatrical engagement on November 29, 2018 and launches globally on Netflix December 7. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a somber, serious ...

The road to the release of “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” has been a long and winding one. Although technically it’s the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, the actor known primarily for motion-capture ...

Performance capture guru Andy Serkis’ ill-conceived adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' focuses too much on technology, not enough on character. Let’s pretend for a moment that Disney didn’t just release ...

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.