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 Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. 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”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |