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Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx stars as Will Stacks in Columbia Pictures' heartwarming musical comedy, “Annie.”
In the film, child wonder Quvenzhané Wallis (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) plays 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 - 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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Foxx says that by updating his character, he becomes more relatable to contemporary audiences. "Stacks has spent all of his time building his phone company - his business doesn't allow him to be a regular person," says Foxx. "He forgets about a personal life. And then, running for mayor, it's even more extreme. Playing it that way gives us something we can identify with, in today's terms."
Foxx was excited to be a part of a film that he can share with his family. "This film really captures what it's like to have a parent's love for a child," he says. "The emotion of the movie is real and honest. My six-year-old daughter was on the set and had a ball. I can't wait for her to see it."
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Opening across the Philippines on January 21, 2015, “Annie” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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