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 | Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. |