Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhane Wallis, and Cameron Diaz star in the latest film adaptation of Annie, the durable Broadway musical. This version has been given a hip-hop glaze with new songs from Jay-Z, but for all the changes, as I say in my video review above, I’m not sure the result is going to be any better ‘Tomorrow.’
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BREAKING: Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment have found their title character for Annie. They’ve set Oscar nominatedBeasts Of The Southern Wild star Quvenzhane Wallis to play the role, in a film to be directed and produced by Will Gluck. Also producing are James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith…
David Mermelstein is an AwardsLine contributor.
Convincingly relating a child's sense of wonder in a movie for grownups is never easy. But Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer managed it handily in the music for Beasts Of The Southern Wild, which Zeitlin also directed and co-wrote.
Set in the wetlands of the deep South…
Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributorIt's not that independent filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, 30, and his team at Court 13 Productions had nothing to lose when they set out to produce Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zeitlin's first feature film. But with a miniscule budget somewhere between $1.5 million and $1.8 million…
