The new version of Annie heads to the big screen on December 19, 2014 with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz in starring roles. Prior to its release, the soundtrack will be hitting stores on November 17th.
The full Annie track list has been released and includes songs performed by Sia, Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, and Cameron Diaz. And in addition to announcing the songs featured on the soundtrack, the music video for the first single – “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile” sung by Sia – is now available online. The video was directed by Annie helmer Will Gluck and was shot in New York City.
Featured on the soundtrack are new arrangements of the classic tunes by Sia and producer/songwriter Greg Kurstin. They also wrote a few new songs specifically for the soundtrack including “Moonquake Lake” featuring Beck.
Annie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List
01 Overture – Cast
02 Maybe – Quvenzhané Wallis, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Nicolette Pierini, Eden Duncan-Smith
and Amanda Troya
03 It’s The Hard-Knock Life – Quvenzhané Wallis, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Nicolette Pierini, Eden Duncan-Smith and Amanda Troya
04 Tomorrow – Quvenzhané Wallis
05 I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here (2014 Film Version) – Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne and Stephanie Kurtzuba
06 You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (2014 Film Version) – Sia
07 Moonquake Lake – Sia and Beck
08 Little Girls (2014 Film Version) – Cameron Diaz
09 The City’s Yours – Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis
10 Opportunity – Quvenzhané Wallis
11 Easy Street (2014 Film Version) – Cameron Diaz and Bobby Cannavale
12 Who Am I? – Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Quvenzhané Wallis
13 I Don’t Need Anything But You (2014 Film Version) – Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis and Rose Byrne
14 Tomorrow (Reprise) – Cast
15 Opportunity (Sia Version) – Sia [Version does not appear in film]
The Plot:
Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis stars as 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 (Jamie Foxx) – 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.
Clea DuVall (“Emma Borden”), Sara Botsford (“Abby Borden”), Christina Ricci (“Lizzie Borden”) and Stephen McHattie (“Andrew Borden”) in the Lifetime Original Movie, ‘Lizzie Borden Took An Ax’ (Photo by Chris Reardon / Copyright 2014)
Christina Ricci will be slipping into Lizzie Borden’s shoes once again for a planned limited series on Lifetime. Ricci, who starred as murder suspect Borden in the 2014 made-for-TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, will be reprising the role in Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles. Clea DuVall will also be back playing Lizzie’s sister, Emma.
The series will consist of six one-hour episodes set to air in 2015. Sons of Anarchy‘s Stephen Kay will direct the first two episodes.
“For more than a century, the world has been captivated by the legend of Lizzie Borden. But no one has captured her enigmatic menace as well as Christina Ricci,” said Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lifetime. “This series will take viewers further down Lizzie Borden’s dark path, revealing what many people suspected about her mysterious life.”
The Plot:
Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles delivers an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892, when the exonerated figure lives a life awash in newfound celebrity. But when numerous people close to Lizzie – ranging from her half-brother to Broadway luminaries and the head of the criminal underworld — start to mysteriously die under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo (Cole Hauser) becomes determined to prove her involvement in their ultimate demise.
Emmy nominee John Heard will portray William Almy, the business partner of Lizzie’s murdered father, Andrew, while Lizzie’s half-brother William will be played by Andrew Howard (Hatfields & McCoys).
“It’s the end…the end of the path I started us on,” says Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). “Nothing lasts forever,” replies Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).
Following the online leak, Marvel made it official by bumping up the release of the teaser trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. I’m not even going to pretend I understand what’s going on in the two minute teaser having not read the comics, but it is obvious this second Avengers film will have more action and a much darker tone. Coming to theaters on May 1, 2015, Avengers: Age of Ultron was written and directed by Joss Whedon and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, James Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson.
The Plot:
Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., who returns as Iron Man, along with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, the team must reassemble to defeat James Spader as Ultron, a terrifying technological villain hell-bent on human extinction. Along the way, they confront two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision.
The first trailer for the dramatic thriller The Gambler is rated ‘restricted’ for good reason. Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman definitely use language that’s not appropriate for the workplace – or for small children – in this red band preview of the remake of the award-winning 1974 film. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), The Gambler also stars Brie Larson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Jessica Lange.
Paramount Pictures is releasing The Gambler in theaters on December 19, 2014.
The Plot:
Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster (Michael Kenneth Williams) and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring (Alvin Ing) and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother (Lange) in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank (John Goodman), a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett’s future. As his relationship with a student (Brie Larson) deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance…
Season two of The CW’s sci-fi action drama The 100 kicks off on October 22, 2014 at 9pm ET/PT with an episode that picks up right where season one ended. What’s happening with our The 100 favorites on Earth and how will the world change now that the survivors of the Ark are on solid ground? Big changes are in store for all of the survivors in season two of the popular primetime series.
The Plot of The 100 Season Two Episode One – “The 48”
SEASON TWO BEGINS IN A DANGEROUS NEW WORLD — Clarke (Eliza Taylor) is still alone in the white room, frantically trying to make sense of her bizarre surroundings, while the fate of Bellamy (Bob Morley), Finn (Thomas McDonell) and Raven (Lindsey Morgan) is still unknown. Lincoln (Ricky Whittle) and Octavia’s (Marie Avgeropoulos) daring plan is thwarted and an enemy returns. Meanwhile, Abby (Paige Turco), Kane (Henry Ian Cusick) and the survivors of the Ark must face physical and moral dilemmas in their dangerous and beautiful new world. Finally, Jaha (Isaiah Washington) makes a heroic decision. Devon Bostick and Chris Larkin also star.
Logo for ‘CMA Country Christmas’ (Photo Credit: ABC)
The 2014 CMA Country Christmas special hosted by Jennifer Nettles has just confirmed Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley and Steven Tyler will be among this year’s performers. They join previously announced performers Dan + Shay, Brett Eldredge, Sara Evans, Lucy Hale, Hunter Hayes, Little Big Town, Idina Menzel, Nettles, LeAnn Rimes, Michael W. Smith, and Carrie Underwood to help ring in the holidays. The two-hour holiday special will air on ABC on December 1st at 8pm ET/PT.
The Country music-filled special will tape in Nashville, Tennessee on November 7th. Anyone who plans on attending is encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy to help out Nashville kids in need.
“Our toy drive adds something special to the celebration shining a spotlight on a worthy endeavor in a way that reflects the values and giving nature of our artists, the industry, and this city,” said Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer.
Jennifer Lawrence stars as ‘Katniss Everdeen’ in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1. (Photo Credit: Murray Close/Lionsgate)
We’re less than one month away from the release of the third film of the Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, and Lionsgate’s pumping up the number of promotional videos in support of the action film. The studio’s just released two new TV spots showing Panem on the brink of all-out war.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 opens in theaters on November 21. 2014.
The Plot:
The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
The Cast:
Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen)
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark)
Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne)
Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy)
Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket)
Julianne Moore (President Coin)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Plutarch Heavensbee)
Jeffrey Wright (Beetee)
Sam Claflin (Finnick Odair)
Jena Malone (Johanna Mason)
Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman)
Donald Sutherland (President Snow)
Relativity Media has released the first trailer for The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death coming to theaters on January 2, 2015. The sequel’s set four decades after the first film, The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe, and was directed by Tom Harper. The cast for the 2015 sequel is led by Jeremy Irvine and Helen McCrory.
The Plot:
The sequel takes place in the same house 40 years later when a group of children who are evacuated from London during World War II come to stay and awaken the house’s darkest inhabitants.
TNT is moving forward on a spin-off from its popular Cold Justice series. Cold Justice follows real-life investigations of unsolved murder cases. However, the spin-off will tackle unsolved sex crimes. Crime experts will be helping local police departments in attempting to solve cold cases in this new untitled series coming in the spring of 2015. Tapped to serve as experts are former Harris County, Texas prosecutors Casey Garrett and Alicia O’Neill.
Season one of the spin-off has been greenlit for 10 episodes. The new series will be executive produced by Dick Wolf, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, and Tom Thayer. Kelly Siegler from Cold Justice will also executive produce.
“This new Cold Justice series on sex crimes is about the healing that can come for survivors and their loved ones when an assailant is finally brought to justice,” said Kelly Siegler. “But it’s also about the bravery it takes for survivors of sexual assault to come forward and tell their stories, which in turn helps investigators close cases that can prevent the assailant from abusing others. As one of our detectives puts it, ‘When you kill someone, you take their life. When you rape someone, you take their soul.’ We hope that Casey, Alicia and their team of investigators are able to bring first-hand justice and maybe even a small sense of peace to the survivors of sexual assault.”
Per TNT’s official announcement, there are 240,000 survivors of sexual assault in America. Startlingly, about
97% of those who commit sexual assaults are never jailed.
The network’s searching police departments in need of assistance:
TNT’s Cold Justice spinoff is now seeking Law Enforcement Agencies who could benefit from additional resources for their unsolved sex crime cases and possibly be featured on the new show. Law Enforcement Agencies that would like to submit a case please send a short synopsis and your contact information to [email protected]. The series can only review cases that are submitted directly from Law Enforcement. If you are a survivor of a reported sex crime and would like the series to consider your case, please ask the local Law Enforcement Agency handling your case to submit to [email protected].
David Giuntoli as Nick Burkhardt in ‘Grimm’ (Photo by: Scott Green / NBC)
Season four of NBC’s dramatic series Grimm is set to premiere on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 9pm ET/PT, and if you recall in the season three finale, Nick (David Giuntoli) lost his Grimm powers and can no longer see Wesen. How that will affect both his personal life and his professional life as a police detective will play out over the fourth season of the hit series.
In support of the show’s upcoming season four premiere, Giuntoli took part in a conference call to discuss all things Grimm and changes we can expect to see in the new season.
David Giuntoli Grimm Interview
Can you talk about how Nick is going to be handling the fact that he doesn’t have his Grimm powers anymore?
David Giuntoli: “Yes, Grimm powers are gone from Nick and he may or may not – I mean, he’s kind of enjoying his new normalcy, I think, in a lot of ways. But he also knows that the Wesen are out there. So first and foremost he’s going to be using Trubel [played by Jacqueline Toboni] as his seeing eye Grimm. He is going to be tapping Monroe, which he used to do, tapping on his shoulder quite a bit. He’s going to be using his team of Wesen and Grimms to try to do what he used to be able to do. But he doesn’t have his powers anymore, and that means that not only can he not see the Wesen, he’s just not as powerful as he was.”
Can you talk about working with Jacqueline?
David Giuntoli: “Jacqueline Toboni was just such a breath of fresh air on our set. She’s so fresh and talented and eager. It seems as though Grimms can only be Italian Americans. We had Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Giuntoli, Jacqueline Toboni… I don’t know if that’s what they’re going for, but it happened. So we love it. And, yes, she’s incredible. She’s like a little sis.”
Now that Nick is de-Grimmed, which of his other qualities do you think he’ll be focusing on more?
David Giuntoli: “He has to focus on being a cop again. He used to solve crimes without having blatant tells as to who did this. So now he has to remember that he was a good detective and start solving cases the old-fashioned way: through evidence.”
How will his relationships change this season?
David Giuntoli: “Well, up to where we are, you know, Nick and Juliette are enjoying… You know, here’s the thing. Even though he’s not a Grimm, there’s not like a peace that comes with it. We know about the world. We know what’s going on out there, and they know about us. I depend more on Monroe. I depend more on Trubel. She and I grow very close. Again, she’s much like a young sister to me or a daughter to me. And that’s what you’ll be seeing.”
Why do you think Grimm is such a popular show?
David Giuntoli: “The writing. I mean, it’s fun. It’s fun TV. It’s popcorn. It knows what it is and it’s not trying to be anything else. And I think we deliver kind of action-packed fun every episode. If decapitating people is what you consider to be fun, then that’s what we do.”
What do you think about this storyline and what is it like playing him in a different way?
David Giuntoli: “Yes, it’s fun to just be a normal dude again who is still somehow tormented by knowing that there is this other world out there though. He’s no longer really a part of it. He’s just kind of adjacent to it. [I’m] playing it like it was a great loss of almost like a loved one. This thing I had become I hated so much in the beginning – these Grimm powers – and then suddenly, slowly, came to really love and depend on, now it’s gone. So it was a painful process to go through and the bright side could be it could make things better for Juliette and me. But, yes, I am no longer the Grimm. There is still a Grimm on screen, so it was true to the title of our show. But it was fun to play a normal guy.”
Last season there were times when Nick took a backseat to other characters’ storylines. Is he going to really step up this season to be more in the forefront?
David Giuntoli: “Seems to be the case. That seems to be the case as these episodes go on. We’ve had some great additions to the cast – Jacqueline Toboni as Trubel and that storyline, it rightfully took the forefront for a little while. And it starts to get more into Nick, Hank, and Monroe trying to solve these crimes.
Part of the joys of it is it’s become more of an ensemble. That’s lovely to me. I think it’s more fun for everyone else too. Get to act in all these different dynamics and with all these different people, so I think it’s a nice thing.”
Would you say that his losing his powers is similar to someone who might have lost their eyesight or limb or something like that as far as at least his detective work?
David Giuntoli: “Absolutely. I mean, how will he deal with losing his powers? Will he be the same cop? The same boyfriend? The same friend? The same threat to Wesen? It is a disability and it changes things for as long as he’s no longer a Grimm.”
He knows there are threats out there now, but he can’t see them and that would be really terrifying.
David Giuntoli: “It’s very terrifying on that level, and it’s also just difficult on a human level. Because, you know, he had this identity and it’s no longer attached to him. It’s like he lost an important job. It’s just he’s no longer the thing he thought [he was], his whole reason for living was to battle these Wesen and fight. He had the rare blood to be able to see evil and it’s gone. So, yes.”
What can you tease us about Wesens that we’re going to see in this new season? Will there be any characters that come from Latin American folklore?
David Giuntoli: “Yes. Absolutely. One of the fun Wesen…one of my favorite episodes of the season is we deal with the Chupacabra. We just vaguely finished filming that episode. We have many new wonderful Wesen. We have the Gedachtnis Esser, which is the Octopus Man. We have the Schinderdiv demon beast with like chin fangs. We have a golem, which is a piece of Jewish folklore. So we go all over the place through all cultures. But Chupacabra would be the Latin American.”
What’s going to happen with the Chupacabra?
David Giuntoli: “Gosh, I don’t know what I can say. I can say that we have to use Juliette quite a bit. She has a mastery of the Spanish language, so she needs to help Nick and Hank and Monroe out quite a bit. We learn the actual origin of what the Chupacabra is and its relation to the Wesen community. So it’s an interesting take.”
What was your initial reaction to getting that season three finale script and seeing that he’d be losing his powers?
David Giuntoli: “I thought – I don’t know. I mean, I was excited. It’s always fun to play these new situations. I knew it would shake things up as to I would now be needing the use of young inexperienced kind of off-the-cuff Grimm, Trubel. And I knew that that would create a lot of problems. But I was excited to see what would happen with Juliette and Nick’s relationship and how his new identity as just a detective — a normal guy — how that would shape his relationships.”
How do you think we’re going to see the team’s relationship with Trubel evolve this season now that they really need her?
David Giuntoli: “She becomes more ingrained in the fabric of our lives. I desperately need to teach her what it is to be a Grimm. It’s not just a free pass to go kick Wesen ass all day long. I try to show her the finer points. I try to tell her that I would actually try to use the law before I would just, you know, go all rogue and Grimm.
Can you talk a little bit about some of your favorite fairy tales, Grimm or otherwise? Were they things that scared you?
David Giuntoli: “Well, I don’t remember honestly the Grimm’s Fairy Tales being a big part of my life. Yes, there were things that scared me. I mean, I think I’ve said in the past I was raised in a very Catholic setting. So, you know, I had that like almost like James Joycean fear of God and the devil and stuff. And then I also happened to see The Exorcist when I was like eight years old. And I would be like 6’4″ right now if I hadn’t seen that. It destroyed me. I was so afraid of like the devil and demons and all that kind of stuff. So yes, terrifying. I loved scary movies and they were the bane of my life.”
Is there anything on this show that has given you a nightmare?
David Giuntoli: “No. I mean, I see all the work that goes into this. But some things creep me out when I walk onto set and see a body there lying completely with a severed head next to it, and it previously looked like the guest star. I mean like it can be eerie, but no. No nightmares.”
Do you think Wu will ever find out about Nick and that Wesen are real? Do you think he should find out or do you think he should remain kept in the dark?
David Giuntoli: “That’s a very good question. I think that there’s going to come a point where he’s going to have to find out. I don’t think he should take it too easily. I don’t think he will if he does. But, yes, I think that he will at one point have to find out. I think it’s fun that he does not know at this point. But, you know, the poor guy’s being driven insane.”
