I believe that The Wiz was embraced while Annie isn't is talent. The Wiz had major stars of Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. The Wiz never tried to be an exact copy of The Wizard Of Oz.
shareThe Wiz 100%
shareAnnie (2014)!
shareWiz was awesome! Music and singing amazing! and loved the recent live one on NBC too.
Great interpretation of Wizard of Oz.
And took care to have actual musicians performing.
Dude, Annie had a mixture of musicians, actors and singers. Eden Duncan Smith sang and acted on stage. Bobby Canivalli has on screen. Jamie Foxx is actuallya recording artist.
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The Wiz was embracedHa! It was panned by critics and audiences stayed away in droves. But hey...aside from that you got everything else right...
Annie (2014) did not make its budget back. Theaters get 50% of the total gross and Sony spent over $100 million on advertising. It was the most marketed film in the winter of 2014. The total gross, domestic and foreign, was $133.8 million. Sony's take, domestic and foreign, was $67 million. With a budget of $65 million plus over $100 million spent on advertising, Sony lost around $98 million on this movie. It was an unfaithful adaptation of a comic strip icon whose image was one of the most recognizable in American culture. Predictably, it bombed.
The Wiz (1978) did not have the benefit of a foreign gross.