2014 was when Annie was released.
Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse , Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan , which in turn is based on Little Orphan Annie , the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray . Annie is a 2014 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Will Gluck and produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Will Smith 's Overbrook Entertainment for Sony Pictures ' Columbia Pictures .