Bill Murray to sing as Baloo the Bear in Disney’s “Jungle Book”December 22, 2014 - 18:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Bill Murray will sing in character as Baloo the Bear in The Jungle Book, Digital Spy said. Iron Man director Jon Favreau is updating the 1967 Disney classic which featured songs like 'The Bare Necessities' and 'I Wanna Be Like You.' Entertainment Weekly says Favreau has described the film as "not a musical" but "wanted to work in the more memorable moments from the '67 film". When asked if that would include classic 'The Bare Necessities', he added: "Oh, yeah! How do you not do that?" The live-action film is currently being shot with Christopher Walken, Idris Elba and Ben Kingsley lending their voices respectively as orangutan King Louie, villainous tiger Shere Khan and panther Bagheera. Lupita Nyong'o as wolf mother Rackcha and Scarlett Johansson as hypnotic snake Kaa round out the cast. They will all provide motion capture and voices for CG animals with 10-year-old Neel Sethi appearing as himself on-screen as Mowgli. The film is due for release on October 9, 2015. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |