Annie: the Musical

DID IIIIII JUST DO A COMMERCIAL?

A magnificently giant performance.

I gotta say, this looks like it could be really enjoyable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxc8rS2W2E

Did the Will and Willow Smith project mentioned upthread turn into this much more promising version?

Maybe you saw a different trailer to me then. I thought it looked kinda horrible. The girl is cute but Diaz and Foxx, ugh no

At least it no longer has Will Smith in it

(it is the same project though, Emma Thompson has 3rd writing credit)

Foxx wears rug for most of it, reportedly

booooo

wig gag spoiled in one of the trailers actually

Maybe you saw a different trailer to me then. I thought it looked kinda horrible. The girl is cute but Diaz and Foxx, ugh no

Yeah, pretty sure I saw the same version you did. The girl looked really good, but the two big name leads looked stiff and terrrrrrrible.

well two years ago on Christmas I watched Les Miserables in the theater and Jaime Foxx and Cameron Diaz couldn't be more stiff and terrible than Russel Crowe and Hugh Jackman were

see I didn't hate Les Mis

you say potato, etc :)

LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF

tbh though I will mostly be in it for Quevezhané Wallis (who apparently has a role in the upcoming Space Jam 2, which I didn't know was a thing)

wtf @ space jam 2

i thought space jam 2 got canned when Lebron decided he didn't want to do it

idk it's still in IMDB which might mean nothing

This looks worse than Les Mis. Not something I say lightly, either.

kudos

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/annie

lalalala I can't hear you.

My only regret is that I couldn't be meaner.

who takes the place of FDR?

Twitter.

Honestly, of all the movies for people to be coming out of the "it's not THAT bad" woodwork.

The trailer for this was completely charmless (even Quvenzhané Wallis looked totally unengaged). Yet your review makes it sound more charmless than I could've even imagined.

And I'm forced to ask about yet another remake: why not just make it its own thing if you're going to alter the source material to such an extent that you're likely to turn off anyone who might've been enticed by another filmed iteration of that particular story/property?

Am guessing this version would never have happened without the Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life" breathing alleged life into the property.

It was nepotism on behalf of Willow Smith that kickstarted the whole thing. Then she got too old.

lol are you serious

Yeah, wasn't it originally supposed to be Will and Willow? An After Earth present for his little girl?

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

Can't wait for the Pinkett-Smith Sophie's Choice.

what loving dad wouldn't arrange high-profile failure for both his kids?

a total idiot?

oh lol didn't see the "wouldn't" there haha

that picture on the review just makes me continue weeping for Rose Byrne's career

xpost But that's probably Will Smith's honest take. Given the money and the pull, only a total idiot would refrain from giving his beloved children their own vanity projects.

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives, might as well get them career-focused early in life like he was (is my guess)

his kids are already not gonna have to ever work a day in their lives

Or go to school.

or experience linear time

has Willow Smith been in any movies? I just skimmed that interview a few weeks ago where she and her brother sounded like herbal teabags in corporeal form.

xp they'll probably end up getting ivy league degrees anyway lbr

sister obliged to take kid to this yesterday as the coal in her stocking