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Release Date:
Friday, December 19, 2014 Nationwide
some mild language and rude humor
Plot: What's the story about?
Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
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Who stars in Annie: Cast List
Quvenzhane Wallis ... Annie
Breathe, Counting by 7s
Jamie Foxx ... Benjamin Stacks
Not Another Church Movie, The Burial
Cameron Diaz ... Miss Hannigan
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Ezra, MaXXXine
Ezra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ... Nash
Thor: The Dark World, Marlowe
Who's making Annie: Crew List
A look at the Annie behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Will Gluck last directed Anyone But You and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. The film's writer Aline Brosh-McKenna last wrote Cinderella and We Bought a Zoo.
Director
Screenwriters
Producers
Shawn CarterJay-Z
James Lassiter
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Will Smith
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Production: What we know about Annie?
Key Facts
- Jamie Foxx will play a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of Daddy Warbucks, who takes in the orphan girl being played by Quvenzhane Wallis.
- Based on the stage musical Annie, with the book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin -- which in turn was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.
- Jay-Z will "re-imagine" the music, much as he did when he re-fashioned the Broadway show's "Hard Knock Life" into an anthem of urban poverty.
Filming Timeline
- 2014 - June: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2014 - March: The film was set to Post-Production status.
- 2013 - September: The film was set to Production status.
Currently filming in New York City.
- 2013 - July: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
- 2013 - January: The film was set to Development status.
The movie is contemporized and will shoot late 2013 for a 2014 release.
- 2012 - August: The film was set to Development status.
Aline Brosh McKenna, the screenwriter behind The Devil Wears Prada, will rewrite the screenplay.
- 2011 - January: The film was set to Announced status.
Annie Release Date: When was the film released?
Annie was a Nationwide release in 2014 on Friday, December 19, 2014. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, After the Fall and Mr. Turner.
Annie DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Annie was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 .