Annie Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

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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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Annie.

• Q
  Quvenzhane Wallis

  ... Annie

  Counting by 7s, Breathe

• 
  Jamie Foxx

  ... Benjamin Stacks

  Back In Action, Django Unchained

• 
  Cameron Diaz

  ... Miss Hannigan

  Back In Action, Shrek 5

• B
  Bobby Cannavale

  Unstoppable, Blue Moon

• 
  Rose Byrne

  Neighbors, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

• A
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  ... Nash

  The Union, Pompeii

Crew Behind the Film

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

Will Gluck

Screenwriter

Aline Brosh-McKenna

Producers

Shawn Carter
Jay-Z
James Lassiter
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Will Smith

Production Details

What we know about the Annie movie production.

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.

Production Updates for Annie

Jun 2014

Completed

Changed Annie movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Mar 2014

Post-Production

Changed the movie production status to Post-Production. The movie is now in the editing and finishing stages.

Sep 2013

Production

Changed the movie production status to Production. Currently filming in New York City.

Jul 2013

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Preparations are underway to start production.

Jan 2013

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. The movie is contemporized and will shoot late 2013 for a 2014 release.

Aug 2012

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. Aline Brosh McKenna, the screenwriter behind The Devil Wears Prada, will rewrite the screenplay.

Jan 2011

Announced

Changed the movie production status to Announced. No additional details available for this status.

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