By February 2013, Beasts of the Southern Wild star and Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis had replaced Smith in the lead role, [25] and the film was given a Christmas 2014 release date. [26] The procedure was booked for 12 December; she would be 11 weeks pregnant. “They said they would keep the baby and there would be a burial on 2 January. And that,” Annie’s face crumples, “would be how my new year would start.” Annie was allowed to see her children three times a week. At every 90-minute session, a supervisor would make notes

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Gray gets endorsed by Michael J. Fox, leading Will to get a bit desperate. He decides to take Annie on a ride over the city in his private helicopter ("The City's Yours"). Annie is pleased. Annie has no parental support. She was sexually abused at the age of eight by a family member, but when she told her mother, normal life resumed as though nothing had happened. Now, she finds, it is better to stay away from her family. “They are not good for my mental health.”

North Tyneside’s children’s services decided Annie’s volatile mental state and breakdowns were causing the children emotional harm, and applied to take them all into care. They accepted that during the periods when Annie was well, she was able to meet the children’s needs, but argued that “her mental health currently precluded her from doing so on a long-term and predictable basis”. The film officially premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on December 7, 2014. [37] Piracy [ edit ] Dexter's' David Zayas Joins 'Annie' Remake (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. September 30, 2013. Archived from the original on February 13, 2021 . Retrieved April 17, 2020. Is Pre-Release Piracy a Threat to 'Annie's' Box Office?". Variety. December 9, 2014. Archived from the original on December 16, 2014 . Retrieved December 13, 2014. O'Neal, Sean (June 27, 2013). "Actually, Cameron Diaz will be the one terrorizing children with her singing in Annie". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on September 10, 2013 . Retrieved September 16, 2013.Will Smith Wants Emma Thompson To Write The Annie Remake For Willow Smith". Blogs.indieWire.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014 . Retrieved September 16, 2013. Annie and Richie – with whom she still had an intermittent relationship, and whom she believed was the baby’s father (a DNA test later showed he wasn’t) – talked late into the night. They scrabbled together the money for a 3D scan because, Annie says, “I wanted to be able to say goodbye to my baby.” Finally, Annie recalls, “Richie said, ‘You can’t do it. You won’t survive this. And maybe they won’t take him. Maybe we can fight.’”

Will goes to Annie, who is mad since she thinks he abandoned her. Will apologizes and admits he didn't know that those people were imposters. The press arrives on the scene. To prove he really cares, Will officially withdraws from the mayoral race and decides to focus on raising Annie. Annie forgives him, but she decides one more thing needs to happen. She sets brings Grace toward Will, and he decides to formally ask her out to dinner. She responds by kissing him. The three of them then sing "I Don't Need Anything But You." She describes her relationship with Richie as “volatile”: she got pregnant, but he threw her out of his house two weeks before she gave birth to their daughter Rosie, in October 2008. Her hard work with the psychiatric team meant her mental health was more resilient, and newborn Rosie was discharged from hospital into Annie’s care. The risk assessment on the older three was downgraded, and the case subsequently closed.FBI — Update on Sony Investigation". FBI. December 19, 2014. Archived from the original on April 16, 2022 . Retrieved December 22, 2014. Against accepted good practice, the hearing was in front of a judge unfamiliar with her history. “She was older, and looked very forbidding,” Annie recalls. “She didn’t look at me other than to get exasperated when I didn’t understand a question.” She was still in pain and bleeding from the birth, and her milk had come in and soaked her top as she answered questions for an hour. Her barrister, whom she’d met only a few minutes earlier, didn’t seem to her to fight very hard: Annie felt he didn’t have a grasp of her situation. “He asked me at one point if I was a prostitute,” she says bitterly. Jue, Teresa (December 9, 2014). "NAACP Image Awards announce nominations for film and TV". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December 11, 2014.