Annie is a 2014 American
musical comedy-drama film directed by
Will Gluck and produced by
Village Roadshow Pictures and
Will Smith's
Overbrook Entertainment for
Sony Pictures'
Columbia Pictures. A contemporary adaptation of the 1977
Broadway musical of the same name, the film stars
Quvenzhané Wallis,
Jamie Foxx,
Rose Byrne,
Bobby Cannavale, and
Cameron Diaz. The third
film adaptation of the 1924 comic strip
Little Orphan Annie by
Harold Gray, following Columbia's 1982
theatrical film and
Disney's 1999
television film,
Annie began production in August 2013 and opened on December 19, 2014 to generally negative reviews, but was a box-office success, grossing over $133 million.