In her first TV series role, Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), is joining ABC’s Black-ish as a recurring, Wallis will play Kyra, Dre's (Anthony Anderson) young cousin who comes to stay with the family for a while after her mom can't take care of her. The episode will air in 2019. Created…

Quvenzhané Wallis, who nabbed an Best Actress Oscar nomination at the tender age of 9 for her debut performance in 2012’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, has signed with the Green Room for management. Wallis also starred as the titular character in Sony’s Annie remake, with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, and appeared in…

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis was already set to produce period drama The Personal History Of Rachel Dupree, and has now been confirmed to star in the pic. Also attached are House Of Cards Emmy nominee Mahershala Ali and Beasts Of The Southern Wild Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis. Claire McCarthy wrote the screenplay and…

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.’ The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mazur/Kaplan Company and Olympus Pictures have optioned Holly Goldberg Sloan’s bestselling novel Counting By 7s. They’ve attached Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild star Quvenzhané Wallis and will build the movie around her. The bestseller centers on Willow Chance, a bright young girl who…

Here’s the latest look at the Quvenzhané Wallis starrer Annie, Columbia Pictures’ take on the Tony-winning Broadway musical-turned-feature. We see more of Rose Byrne (Neighbors) in this one along with fewer musical numbers. Wallis stars as the precocious foster kid from Harlem who is taken in by mega-rich mayoral…

Here’s our first look at Columbia Pictures‘ take on the Tony-winning Broadway musical-turned-feature. Beasts Of The Southern Wild breakout Quvenzhané Wallis stars as Annie as the precocious foster kid from Harlem who is taken in by mega-rich mayoral hopeful Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx). Cameron Diaz — who took the Miss…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment have set Bobby Cannavale to star in Annie. He joins Quvenzhane Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Rose Byrne in the Will Gluck-directed film. Cannavale is coming off Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine and turned in an epic villain performance in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. He…

BREAKING: Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment have found their title character for Annie. They’ve set Oscar nominated Beasts 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 contributor. Looking back at her audition for the lead role of Hushpuppy in Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Quvenzhané Wallis is able to put it all in perspective. "If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something," she observes. "You don't think about it. You are just a little…

Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributor It'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…