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Directed by | Stephen Sommers |
Screenplay by | Stephen Sommers Ronald Yanover Mark Geldman |
Story by | Ronald Yanover Mark Geldman |
Based on | The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
Produced by | Edward S. Feldman Raju Patel |
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Cinematography | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
Edited by | Bob Ducsay |
Music by | Basil Poledouris |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures[2] (through Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; United States, United Kingdom, Benelux, Nordics) MDP Worldwide (International) |
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Running time | 111 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $30 million[4] |
Box office | $70 million |
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, also known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. It is a live-action adaptation of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling.[5] Unlike its counterparts, the animal characters in this film do not talk.
The film stars Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese. Released on December 25, 1994, the film received generally positive reviews and grossed $70 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. It was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. In 2016, Walt Disney Pictures produced and released its own live-action adaptation, The Jungle Book, which was more similar and faithful to both Disney's 1967 animated feature film and Kipling's book.
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