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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Annie from 1982, and Trading Places from 1983.
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Movie 1, Annie

Annieis a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film based on the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip created by Harold Gray.
Directed by John Huston and written by Carol Sobieski, the cast includes Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, with Aileen Quinn as the title character.
It is the first film adaptation of the musical.
Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire, Oliver Warbucks.
Principal photography took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey in 1981.
Produced by Ray Stark's Rastar and released by Columbia Pictures on 21 May 1982, Annie received mixed reviews from film critics and grossed $57 million on a $35 million budget.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Song Score and its Adaptation.
A television film sequel, titled Annie: A Royal Adventure!, was released in 1995.
It was followed by three additional adaptations of the musical.
In their first film collaboration, Disney and Columbia Pictures produced a second film adaptation made-for-television in 1999.
Columbia released a third film adaptation on December 19, 2014.
A fourth adaptation, which was a live production of the musical, was performed on December 2, 2021, on NBC.

Directed by: John Huston.
Screenplay by: Carol Sobieski.
Based on: Annie by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan,, and Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
Produced by: Ray Stark.
Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn.
Cinematography: Richard Moore.
Edited by: Michael A. Stevenson.
Music by: Charles Strouse.
Production company: Rastar.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures.
Release date: 21 May 1982.
File Length: 121 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $35 million.
Box office: $57.1 million.

Movie 2, Trading Places

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.
Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped.
Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after meeting two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other.
He and his writing partner Weingrod developed the idea as a project to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
When they were unable to participate, Landis cast Aykroyd—with whom he had worked previously—and a young but increasingly popular Murphy in his second feature-film role.
Landis also cast Curtis against the intent of the studio, Paramount Pictures; she was famous mainly for her roles in horror films, which were looked down upon at the time.
Principal photography took place from December 1982 to March 1983, entirely on location in Philadelphia and New York City.
Elmer Bernstein scored the film, using Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera buffa The Marriage of Figaro as an underlying theme.
Trading Places was considered a box-office success on its release, earning over $90.4 million to become the fourth highest-grossing film of 1983 in the United States and Canada, and $120.6 million worldwide.
It also received generally positive reviews, with critics praising both the central cast and the film's revival of the screwball comedy genre prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s while criticizing Trading Places for lacking the same moral message of the genre while promoting the accumulation of wealth.
It received multiple award nominations including an Academy Award for Bernstein's score and won two BAFTA awards for Elliott and Curtis.
The film also launched or revitalized the careers of its main cast, who each appeared in several other films throughout the 1980s.
Murphy became one of the highest-paid and most sought-after comedians in Hollywood.
In the years since its release, the film has been praised as one of the greatest comedy films and Christmas films ever made despite some criticism of its use of racial jokes and language.
In 2010, the film was referenced in Congressional testimony concerning the reform of the commodities trading market designed to prevent the insider trading demonstrated in Trading Places.
In 1988, Bellamy and Ameche reprised their characters for Murphy's comedy film Coming to America.
Directed by: John Landis.
Written by: Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod.
Produced by: Aaron Russo.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Cinematography: Robert Paynter.
Edited by: Malcolm Campbell.
Music by: Elmer Bernstein.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 8 June 1983.
File Length: 108 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $15 million.
Box office: $120.6 million.