00:00We're afraid of what man might do to us. The pack needs you, Mowgli."
00:05Netflix wants you to chill in front of the silver screen for its latest theatrical release
00:09from director Andy Serkis. Legend of the Jungle, a new retelling of Rudyard Kipling's The
00:14Jungle Book is the latest Netflix offering to get a limited theatrical release before
00:18it appears on the streaming service. Netflix announced November 7 that the film will have
00:22exclusive theatrical engagements beginning November 29 in Los Angeles, New York, San
00:27Francisco, and London before being released globally by Netflix on December 7. It then
00:33will have an expanded theatrical release in additional theaters in the US and the UK.
00:37In Mowgli, Andy Serkis, a pioneer in the art of performance capture, having played Gollum
00:42in the Lord of the Rings movies and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movies, directs an A-list
00:46cast of actors, including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Frito Pinto,
00:52Matthew Rhys, Naomi Harris, all playing juggled denizens in a new version of Kipling's
00:57tale, with Rohan Chan playing the human boy who finds himself in their midst. The film
01:02was originally produced by Warner Brothers, which saw Disney's Jungle Book, directed by
01:06Jon Favreau, beat it to the screen in April 2016. Warner's, which had originally planned
01:11to release Serkis' movie in October 2016, moved its release to October 17 and then to
01:17October 19 of this year before selling the film to Netflix, which announced its acquisition
01:21this past summer, slating the movie for a 2019 online debut. Netflix, which had been operating
01:27under a strict day and date policy, with those films that gave a limited theatrical release
01:31appearing in theaters on the same day they hit the streaming service, recently began to
01:35make exceptions to that policy, announcing that it would give exclusive releases in advance
01:40of the movie's online debut to several upcoming awards hopefuls. Alfonso Carranza
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