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VIDEO: FIRST LOOK: Quvenzhane Wallis Performs Sia's New Song 'Opportunity' from ANNIE

By: Nov. 12, 2014
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PEOPLE shares an exclusive first look at Quvenzhané Wallis performing Sia's new song 'Opportunity' from the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of ANNIE. Check it out below!

Director Will Gluck shared with the site that he knew an updated score would be needed to appeal to today's audiences, so he turned to songwriters Sia and Greg Kurstin to give the music a new sound. "Sia is awesome," Gluck tells PEOPLE. "I was super lucky that she was interested and she loved Annie as a kid. She's so fun to work with."

Gluck also revealed that "Opportunity" was his favorite song from the film, explaining, "Annie sings this song after she realizes that she's got a good thing going with Jamie Foxx's character," he says. "She goes to the Guggenheim Museum and they ask her to give a speech, but instead she just sings a song about what a great opportunity she's been given." He adds, "The crew couldn't stop crying! It's the song that all the guys start weeping to."

The big screen adaptation of ANNIE, starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as 'Daddy Warbucks and Quvenzhane Wallisin the role of America's favorite orphan hits theaters on December 19th.

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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