Jon Favreau

It’s Time to Turn The Page and Meet Your New ‘Jungle Book’ Cast

Walt Disney ProductionsIt’s about to be, well, a jungle out there (sorry) as both Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros.… Read More

Christopher Walken in Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ May Be the Next Great Jazz Orangutan

Walt Disney/Richard CartwrightThe Jungle Book is seriously crushing the casting game right now.This morning, Deadline revealed that two new actors have… Read More

How Jon Favreau Made ‘Chef’ His Own Flavor of Ice Cream

Open Road FilmsIf someone said in 2001, “I bet this Jon Favreau guy ‐ the star, writer, and director of Made — is… Read More

• Reviews

‘Chef’ Review: Jon Favreau Cooks Up Something Sweet With a Curious Side of Bitter

Editor’s note: Our review of Chef originally ran during this year’s SXSW film festival, but we’re re-running it now as… Read More

‘Chef’ Trailer: This Movie Is About Cooking, Okay? Not Hollywood, Definitely Not Hollywood

Open Road“Be an artist on your own time! It’s my restaurant!”Metaphors are cool, okay? Similes and parallels and references are… Read More

Where Are Superhero Movies Finding All These New and Unknown Elements?

Like many readers of this site, I love comic books. I grew up reading them, so when Hollywood finally started… Read More

Jon Favreau in Talks to Direct Live-Action ‘Jungle Book,’ A Movie That Doesn’t Need to Be Made

Over the summer, it was announced that Disney would be opening their vault and re-introducing the world to one of… Read More

NBC’s ‘Revolution’ Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype

The dialogue in NBC’s less than revolutionary new adventure series Revolution is filled with pointless obfuscations. “It’s all going to… Read More