The Walt Disney Co.’s “The Jungle Book” opened with $103.6 million in North America, making it one of the biggest April debuts at the box office. Jon Favreau’s update of Disney’s 1967 animated version of the Rudyard Kipling book is just the company’s latest success in turning its classic cartoons into live-action remakes. But “The Jungle Book” seems to have impressed both critics and moviegoers even more than previous popular examples — “Cinderella,” ”Alice in Wonderland” and ”Maleficent.(Nydailynews.com)…[+]