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The Best Live-Action Disney Remakes

December 23, 2024 by admin

Casey Chong delves into the Disney library to look at the Mouse House’s best live-action remakes… Disney’s penchant for unearthing its own library of animated features and turning them into live-action remakes has been a pivotal part of the moviemaking business since Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland became a huge hit. That 2020 movie eventually […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Alice In Wonderland, Christopher Robin, Cinderella, Cruella, Disney, Mulan, Pete's Dragon, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid

Video Game Review – Disney Speedstorm

April 24, 2023 by Harrison Abbott

Harrison Abbott reviews Disney Speedstorm… Monetisation can be a touchy subject for gamers. Ever since the birth of this medium, shrewd businesspeople have been devising craftier and craftier ways to make our wallets that little bit lighter. In the late ‘70s, many arcade machines had their difficulty levels artificially inflated — so that they could […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: Beauty and the Beast, Disney, Disney Speedstorm, Epcot, Founder's Pack, Gameloft, Monsters Inc., Mulan, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Jungle Book

TV Review – Prehistoric Planet

May 23, 2022 by Chris Connor

Chris Connor reviews Prehistoric Planet… Walking With Dinosaurs was a landmark achievement in 1999 providing incredible visuals and delivering the latest information available on the world of the dinosaurs, informing younger audiences and providing a sense of scale and effects previously unseen on TV.  Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, the series was followed by two follow-up […]

Filed Under: Chris Connor, Reviews, Television Tagged With: Apple TV+, BBC, David Attenborough, Jon Favreau, Planet Earth, The Jungle Book, The Mandalorian, Walking with dinosaurs

Ranking Disney’s Live-Action Remakes from Worst to Best

April 13, 2019 by Liam Hoofe

Liam Hoofe ranks all of Disney’s live-action remakes from worst to best… Last Friday, Disney released their latest remake of an animated classic, with Tim Burton attempting to bring Dumbo into the real world. The movie has been met with mixed reviews but will no doubt clean up at the box office, with Disney realising […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Liam Hoofe, Movies Tagged With: 101 Dalmatians, 102 Dalmations, Alice In Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Beauty and the Beast, Christopher Robin, Cinderella, Disney, Dumbo, Maleficent, Pete's Dragon, The Jungle Book

Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book film Mowgli heading to Netflix rather than theaters

July 27, 2018 by Matt Rodgers

Originally slated for theatrical release on October 19th of this year, having already been shunted around the release date schedule to avoid Jon Favreau’s 2016 blockbuster, Andy Serkis’ adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, titled Mowgli, will now surprisingly swing its way onto Netflix instead. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the streaming giant has picked […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Freida Pinto, Matthew Rhys, Mowgli, Naomie Harris, Peter Mullan, Rohan Chand, The Jungle Book

Andy Serkis takes us behind-the-scenes of his Jungle Book movie with Mowgli featurette

May 22, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

Following the arrival of the first trailer and poster for Mowgli yesterday [check them out here], Warner Bros. has released a featurette for Andy’s Serkis’ upcoming adaptation of The Jungle Book which sees the director taking us behind the scenes of this darker take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale; watch it here… SEE ALSO: First-look images from […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Mowgli, The Jungle Book

First trailer for Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book movie Mowgli

May 21, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

Earlier today we brought you a batch of images from Mowgli [take a look here], and now Warner Bros. has released the first poster and trailer for its upcoming live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. Directed by Andy Serkis, the film stars Rohan Chand in the title role  alongside Matthew Rhys and Freida Pinto […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Freida Pinto, Matthew Rhys, Mowgli, Naomie Harris, Peter Mullan, Rohan Chand, The Jungle Book

First-look images from Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book adaptation Mowgli

May 21, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

With the first trailer for Mowgli set to arrive later today, a selection of images have arrived online giving us our first look at Andy Serkis’ upcoming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book; check them out here… Blending live action and performance capture, the story follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli (Rohan Chand) […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Jungle Book: Origins, Mowgli, The Jungle Book

Disney’s The Jungle Book 2 will feature unused ideas from the original animated movie

January 28, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2. Speaking to […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Jon Favreau, Justin Marks, The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book 2

Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book film retitled Mowgli, synopsis released

December 20, 2017 by Matt Rodgers

Warner Bros have once again changed the name of Andy Serkis’ forthcoming Jungle Book movie to Mowgli. The studio have also released a new synopsis for the film, which was previously called Jungle Book: Origins., as well as Mowgli: Tales from the Jungle Book. Blending live action and performance capture, the story follows the upbringing […]

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Eddie Marsan, Jack Reynor, Jungle Book: Origins, Mowgli, Naomie Harris, Peter Mullan, Rohan Chand, The Jungle Book, Tom Hollander

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