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After terrorizing New York City as the loner-turned-menace Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jamie Foxx returns to the city for another Sony production, a remake of Annie. Playing Benjamin Stacks (aka Daddy Warbucks), a new trailer has dropped featuring the star cracking a few comic book jokes, but not for a Marvel franchise.

He teams with Quvenzhané Wallis, coming off Beasts of the Southern Wild, for what looks to be fairly generic family entertainment. With Jay-Z on board as producer and Will Gluck (Easy A) in the director’s chair, this trailer has a bit more energy, but doesn’t quite look up my alley. Check it out below for the film also starring Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Zayas, and Cameron Diaz.

Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané 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.

Annie opens on Christmas Day.

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