Annie is a 2014 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Will Gluck, produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and James Lassiter's Overbrook Entertainment and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing's Columbia Pictures. The film is a contemporary adaptation of the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name which was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The film changes the setting from the Great Depression to the present day. It is the second remake and the third film adaptation of the musical following the 1982 theatrical film starring Carol Burnett and Albert Finney and the 1999 television film starring Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The film stars Quvenzhané Wallis in the title role with Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Cameron Diaz. Annie began production in August 2013 and was released theatrically on December 19th, 2014. The film received generally negative reviews; the Rotten Tomatoes consensus say it "smothers its likable cast under clichés, cloying cuteness, and a distasteful materialism". It grossed $133.8 million against a budget of between $65–78 million. A fourth adaptation of the musical was would be produced as an NBC live production in 2021.
History with the Macy's Parade[]
Quvenzhané Wallis with several cast members from the movie performed "It's the Hard Knock Life" on Build-A-Bear Workshop's "International Cele-Bear-Ation Clock Tower" float during the 2014 Macy's Parade telecast.