Every year, five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category. Each of the projects nominated this year offer a unique, inside look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and ...

Jon Favreau's "Jungle Book" remake melds photo-realistic animals with human expression -- and has just as much heart as the animated original. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Much has been made of the innovative virtual filmmaking techniques used to create Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book. And while that aspect of the production was clearly a key part in helping a young actor ...

In his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling offers quaintly mythic etiology-accounts or origin stories for such phenomena as the tides (“The Crab That Played With the Sea”) and the distinctive features of ...

Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is one of the most beloved of all children’s books, and it’s no surprise that Disney – which made the classic animated version in 1967 – would be interested in ...

The award went to Rob Legato, Adam Valdez, Andy Jones and Dan Lemmon. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “The jungle was very difficult and the animals–we all know animals, so if anything felt artificial ...