Facts about The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book 1967
  • Budget $4 million
  • Gross: $205 million worldwide
  • Germany's highest grossing film of all time
  • Disney's The Sword in The stone 1963 didn't do very well so Walt Disney was more hands on for the making of The Jungle Book.
  • Disney thought first version of the script was too dark for the family audiences so took control and changed production team.
  • Backgrounds hand painted with exception of the water fall
  • Filmed on a multiplane camera to create a notion of depth.
  • Created on transparent cells which were originally fixed onto register pegs and this way various layers of images could be shot at once and backgrounds didn't need repainted each time.
  • Buena Vista was the distribution arm of Disney films
  • Rated U
  • Had to go to the cinema to watch
The Jungle Book 2016
  • Budget: $175 million
  • Gross: $966.6 worldwide  
  • Received $103.6 million in opening weekend 
  • Animals created digitally post production 
  • 5th highest grossing film of 2016 
  • Part of Disney's on-going live action versions of earlier animated classics
  • GCI/ Live action hybrid
  • Favreu wanted the film to be part homage to the classic Disney films of the 1930s and 40s
  • Start goes from hand-drawn to CGI 
  • Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • Rated PG 
  • Available to watch in multiple ways 


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