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The Jungle Book: 1967 The Numbers The producers had a budget of 4 million US dollars to create the film. Box office sales : $141,843,000 DVD sales : $279,865,108 Blue Ray DVD's: $22,305,752 Total Video Sales: $302,170,860 Did you know facts WALT DISNEY THOUGHT THE FIRST VERSION OF THE SCRIPT WAS TOO DARK. MOST OF THE SONGS WERE DEEMED TOO DARK AS WELL. IT WAS THE LAST ANIMATED FEATURE WALT DISNEY OVERSAW.  A RHINOCEROS CHARACTER GOT CUT. THEY WANTED THE BEATLES TO VOICE THE VULTURES.  KING LOUIE WAS BASED ON LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Background Info The director of the 1967 Jungle Book was Wolfgang Reitherman who was born in Germany 1909. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men-Walt Disney core animators. Wolfgang directed 9 Disney movies such as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Walt Disney died while the movie was being made.

The Jungle Book: 2016-  Disney's Savvy Marketing Skills General Facts T he Jungle Book released almost half a century after the original 1967 masterpiece made its debut. As of May 26, 2016, its collections stand at $861,391,402 worldwide.  The wolf puppies in the film are named after motion capture actors and other crew members.  Although the story is set primarily in India, the film’s locations were entirely shot at the LA Center Studio in Los Angeles, California using computer-generated VFX.  Neel Sethi, who had never acted before, won the part of Mowgli in his first ever audition among 2,000 children who were vying for the same role. In this film, King Louie is a gigantopithecus whereas in the original movie he is portrayed as an orangutan. The gigantopithecus is an ancestor of the orangutan and this change in species was made to make the film more accurate since orangutans are not native to India. The Numbers Budget:  $175,000,000     (estimated) Opening W