ANNIE's Cameron Diaz Hosts NBC's 'Today Night Live' Tonight

By: Nov. 22, 2014
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Cameron Diaz will host NBC"s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE for the fourth time tonight, Nov. 22. The actress and author of the New York Times best-selling "The Body Book" starred in this year's hit comedies "The Other Woman" and "Sex Tape" and stars as Miss Hannigan in the upcoming film, "Annie," set for release Dec. 19.

The big screen adaptation of ANNIE, stars Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as 'Daddy Warbucks' and Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis in the role of America's favorite orphan.

A Broadway classic that has delighted audiences for generations comes to the big screen with a new, contemporary vision in the upcoming comedy Annie. Director/Producer/Screenwriter Will Gluck teams with producers James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith & Will Smith, Caleeb Pinkett, and Shawn "JAY Z" Carter, Laurence "Jay" Brown, and Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith with a modern telling that captures the magic of the classic characters and original show that won seven Tony Awards. Celia Costas and Alicia Emmrich serve as Executive Producers. The screenplay is by Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the musical stage play "Annie," book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and on "Little Orphan Annie," © and ® Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The film is from Columbia Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures.

Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) 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.

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