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Come along to an EXCLUSIVE Annie Preview Screening on Sunday 14th December - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Bath! Chance to win a Sony Camera and an Annie Goody Bag! NOW CLOSED

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AnnIEMumsnet · 24/11/2014 13:53

Here at MNHQ we are very excited to be able to offer MNers - at five different locations - the chance to have an exclusive MN preview screening on Sunday 14th December of the brand new Annie movie (At Cinemas December 20).

Read all about it here: www.anniemovie.co.uk/

Annie Movie Synopsis
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.

Check out the trailer here:

The film features Jamie Foxx as Will Stacks, Quvenzhané Wallis as Annie, Rose Byrne as Grace, Bobby Cannavale as Guy, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Nash, David Zayas as Lou and Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan

The MN screenings will take place on Sunday 14th December - 5 days ahead of official release!

Locations and times are below:

~ Wimbledon - 10 for 10.30 am NOW ALL ALLOCATED
~ Birmingham Broadway Plaza - 10 for 10.30 am
~ Manchester Printworks - 10 for 10.30 am
~ Glasgow Braehead - 10 for 10.30 am
~ Bath - 9.30 for 10 am STILL AVAILABLE

At the theatre, there will be some delicious popcorn and water on your seats. Late comers will not be admitted and as this is a preview screening there will be no mobile phone/ video camera/ camera use permitted in the theatre, and the theatres will be monitored by a security team using night vision goggles throughout the film.

You're welcome to bring your children to the event and a max of 2 adults per party.

Please state on the form the group size - no changes to this can be made as we want to fill each cinema!

Please note, the film is rated PG and therefore suitable for children under Parental Guidance. You will need to make your own way to the screening and parking is available. Sony Pictures Releasing advises that the film is suitable for children aged 6+

In return we want you to return to MN after the screening and to add your film review as well as post a photo or two of your and your DC in the foyer before or after the screening. We'd also love you to tweet your review with #AnnieMovie.

As an extra thank you, everyone who adds their feedback on the thread on MN will be entered into a prize draw where 5 lucky winners will win a Sony WX350 Camera worth £239 and an Annie Goody Bag!

If you'd like to attend please add your details here.

Here's the link again www.surveymonkey.com/s/AnnieMN

We will be in touch with selected MNers (and are likely to run a standby list) - those selected will need to confirm their attendance with a third party supplier - full details will be sent

Thanks and enjoy the movie!

MNHQ

Come along to an EXCLUSIVE Annie Preview Screening on Sunday 14th December - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Bath! Chance to win a Sony Camera and an Annie Goody Bag! NOW CLOSED
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Tiredemma · 03/12/2014 18:08

Really happy and grateful to have got some Bham tickets- thanks so much. DS is delighted.

lilyloo · 03/12/2014 19:39

Yes I did lostriver that was a few years ago now , I take it you did Smile

muchostinky · 04/12/2014 11:11

I got tickets for Birmingham - thanks very much, DS and I will enjoy it a lot!

JohnCusacksWife · 04/12/2014 16:56

Got tix for Glasgow and have 2 v happy DDs...thanks so much!!

woolypigs · 04/12/2014 23:53

Thanks so much for the tickets. I am taking my 8 year old and a friend who could do with a day out.

confuddledDOTcom · 05/12/2014 14:54

Just had an email! I thought I had been left out, can't wait to go! Grin

confuddledDOTcom · 05/12/2014 22:54

Just read through this thread and rather shocked at the racism on it. Does it not occur to any of you that Quvenzhané might just be the best actress they auditioned? One would assume they cast her first then had to find their Daddy Warbucks (or Will Stacks as he's called in this) from there. This is a modern telling of the story, a lot of things will have changed from the original.

I can't believe that people are not only racist but allowing it in their children! You sound no better than the mothers who say "how do I explain to my children why that baby is sucking on it's mother's breast?" or "how do I explain to them why those two men are holding hands?" Just tell them! It's life stop perpetuating the fear of difference we grew up in and tell them!

buize · 06/12/2014 00:07

confuddled you have just said what I have been thinking for the last couple of days reading this thread.

We didn't get tickets for Wimbledon and what really upsets me is that the people complaining about a 'black Annie' are probably the ones who happily claimed the free tickets!

The fact that the studio has given Mumsnet 1000s of free tickets and prizes to be won makes me think it's all to gauge whether white Britain would be interested in watching this film. I mean really, why do they need a photo as well as feedback?

confuddledDOTcom · 06/12/2014 00:37

buize it would be nice to think MNHQ took it into consideration, wouldn't it? I'm white and my children have been taught as I've said that it's life, they have grown up around it and whilst I'd never allow for racism it's never been an issue because it's never been modeled. My eldest once asked why people are different colours - very much a factual child - so I explained about melatonin (at her level) and told her that some people think it means people are different. Her response to any injustice "That's just silly, why would people think that?"

May09Bump · 07/12/2014 21:11

Thanks for the tickets - looking forward to comparing new and old. Love the casting!

jes73 · 08/12/2014 13:38

Looking forward to it. My daughter is so excited. It's her birthday treat. :)

NoelleHawthorne · 08/12/2014 13:39

i saw the trailer and it looks very very odd

the whole updatey thing. never mind the colour of the cast

Adizzylass2014 · 10/12/2014 18:25

Thank you for giving us this opportunity, we are really looking forward to it. Smile

AnnMumsnet · 12/12/2014 18:03

Feedback review thread now live here

Hope all ticket holders have a great time on Sunday Wink

confuddledDOTcom · 13/12/2014 20:40

I'm a little concerned because I don't have a printer am I going to have problems?

AnnMumsnet · 13/12/2014 23:34

Should be ok on a phone

confuddledDOTcom · 14/12/2014 09:52

and now my daughter is throwing up Sad she was so excited about going. I'd have worked something out but I have one in hospital too so we're running out of adults.

eteo · 14/12/2014 14:55

The songs were brilliant. The movie was great. Both of my children aged 5 and 7 enjoyed it a lot! I will recommend.

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