Tag "Rudyard Kipling"

DQ Plants New $45 Mil. ‘Jungle Book’ Movie

June 19, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

Indian powerhouse studio DQ Entertainment has launched a dedicated feature division division which plans to produce a steady slate of motion pictures in the coming years based on iconic, universally loved characters and stories. The first movie green lit from this new division is a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated [...]

Disney XD Picks up DQE’s ‘Jungle Book’ for U.S.

May 30, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image

Disney XD has acquired the U.S. broadcast rights for DQ Entertainment’s 3D animated series The Jungle Book. The 26 x 22 mins. series will debut June 11 on the channel, which reaches more than 78 million households. Based on the classic stories by English author Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book [...]

Selick to Direct Gaiman’s ‘Graveyard Book’ for Disney

April 29, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Acclaimed director Henry Selick will direct a stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Disney, says Deadline.com. The Newbery Medal award-winning book is a ghostly take on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, about a young boy who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Selick directed the Oscar-nominated [...]

‘Jungle Book’ Musical Set to Premiere in Chicago

February 28, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

A new musical based on the Rudyard Kipling book and 1967 Disney adaptation of The Jungle Book will premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theater, reports Variety. The new production will be written and directed by acclaimed theater visionary and Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphosis) and will incorporate famous tunes by Richard B. [...]