10 Huge Implications Of The Jungle Book's Box Office Success

5. More "Live-Action" Movies Made With Computers

Given how beautiful and photorealistic so much of the The Jungle Book is, it might surprise you to learn that the entire film was pretty much exclusively made on a computer. That's right: this thing is closer to a Pixar movie than a live-action blockbuster, and stands as one of the most technically-impressive films ever.

Thing is, watching The Jungle Book, you're not sitting there for the length of the movie thinking about the CGI - the jungle looks and feels like a real jungle. It's immersive. And that's amazing, given that very little location work was actually carried out and the only proper human character in the film is Mowgli.

So we've reached a point now where it's possible to make something totally "real" with computers, and the success of the film can only mean one thing: more movies made entirely on computers, pretending that they weren't It's easier to "shoot" in CGI than it is on location, after all; nobody has to leave the office.

Now Hollywood knows that The Jungle Book managed to convinced us that it really was shot in the jungles of India - and that we couldn't tell whether those environments were real or fake - actual location work will be deemed less necessary.

The future of "live-action" is, believe it or not, in CGI.