Madeleine McCann: Not A Film, A Book And The McCanns Making Money
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine’s parents planning Hollywood blockbuster movie”
“Kate and Gerry sparked outrage after it was revealed they have held negotiations with leading producers over the movie rights. The couple – who are prime suspects in the case – are also considering book and TV deals in a package worth an estimated £10million”
A book? Like the Daily Express book? That sick..?
Kate McCann: Michelle Pfeiffer
Gerry McCann: James Caan
Madeleine McCann: Macaulay Culkin
And what of this £10million, and the money earned from any film? “The windfall would help finance the search for Madeleine after concerns were raised that a special fund set up by the family was in crisis”
Page 5: The Find Madeleine fund is down to its last £400,000. More money is needed. So why the “outrage”?
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We need money to search for Madeleine and that is the most important thing. Nothing has been decided yet. A film would be made on a percentage basis, with part of the profits going to the fund. None of the money would go to Kate and Gerry. They are not trying in any way to profit out of her name’’
And how many films ever make a profit? It would be a film, perhaps, like that about 15-year-old Amy Smart, abducted in the US and found eight months later. “Several movies were made about her while she was missing including The Amy Smart Story”
The “WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER” does not say if the Amy Smart story made any money. But it does trawl the web and see blog comments like:
“Angry” Pamela Blears, from Oldham, posts: “From the day little Madeleine disappeared I have felt sympathy and compassion for the McCanns but this beggers belief. How can they think about making a film out of the tragedy when the poor child hasn’t even been found yet? How low can you get?”
The Daily Express costs “ONLY 40p”
“McCANNS FEAR CHARGES SOON” – “A source close to the family” tells us: “Kate and Gerry insist they are innocent but they fear they will be charged. Naturally Kate and Gerry are concerned that if this line of inquiry continues to its natural conclusion, charges are always a possibility and they know that’s entirely wrong”
He added: “The Portuguese police seem to be blinkered in their approach and it feels like they want to find the McCanns guilty regardless.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: THE £10M MOVIE – Skint parent to sell film rights”
Skint? The Find Madeleine Fund is dwindling, down to its last “£200,000”. But Gerry McCann is going back to work. He is, as the tabloids never tire to telling us, “a heart consultant”. She is a “GP”
Says the Star: “The couple – who are prime suspects – are in negotiations with the world’s biggest talent and entertainment agency IMG”
IMG – International Management Group– has produced the films Touching the Void, Assault on Waco, Seconds from Disaster, I Shouldn’t be Alive and Kevin and Perry Go Large. Naomi Campbell is on the books
Any film would be an “observational documentary following the on-going search for Madeleine,” says IMG
Pages 4 and5: “Thousands blast ‘sick’ plan”
A poll: “WOULD YOU GO AND WATCH MADDIE: THE MOVIE?” Yes? No? Or I’ve already seen tonight With Trevor McDonald, thanks?
“Ester out in crisis” – TV presenter Esther McVey has resigned her post as a director of the Find Madeleine fund
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE’S PARENTS PLAN £2M FILM DEAL”
“Kate and Gerry McCann could make £2million from a film deal over the story of their daughter’s disappearance, it has been claimed”
Not £10m? Such are the perils of showbiz?
Says the paper: “So far the McCanns, both 39, have turned down offers from big-name chat shows and television dramas as they were anxious to avoid being seen as celebrities”
But we watching the parents. So why not make profit, if it will help?
“Disgraced banker Nick Leeson earned a reported £450,000 when he sold the rights to his autobiography, Rogue Trader. Offers to Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch were said to have topped £1million”
And: “But Gerry McCann was quick to deny the story”
COMMENT: “Maddie the movie: One step too far – Ever since their daughter Madeleine disappeared, Kate and Gerry McCann have ridden a wave of public sympathy. True, there are some (including the Portuguese police) who have aired deeply hurtful suspicions about the couple since that terrible evening in May. But the overwhelming public mood - particularly among parents of young children - has been one of compassion. Today, however, the McCanns risk losing much of that goodwill. Incredibly, it emerges that they are discussing a possible multi-million pound deal to turn Madeleine’s disappearance into a film. To be blunt, isn’t this pushing the boundaries of taste too far?”
But it is already the subject of a media circus. So why not a DVD – we’ve had the T-shirt, the song, the billboards and the trailers..?
ALISON PEARSON writes in her column: “What CAN Kate and Gerry be thinking? Critics who have never forgiven Gerry and Kate for leaving their kids alone in their holiday apartment will be confirmed in their view that the couple have truly terrible judgment. They will be accused of bad taste; of lacking respect for Madeleine’s memory. Kate will be charged with wanting to swan down the red carpet, even though in this case it is sorrow, not vanity, that has reduced her to a Hollywood Size Zero”
How did it become a story about Kate McCann’s looks?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “Maddy THE Movie”
The McCanns also met with ITV about making a documentary. Maddy A Movie…
THE SUN front page: “Maddie hunt ‘to be film’”
Page 9: “ They pary that movie will help find Maddie”
Gerry McCann is a “cardiac specialist”. The McCanns are “doctors”
“IS THIS THE RIGHT DECISION?”
“YES,” says Lorraine Kelly, GMTV presenter.
“NO,” says the Sun’s Jon ‘Guanty’ Gaunt - “I guess the title of the McCann’s proposed film has to be Home Alone”. Or not…
THE GUARDIAN: “McCanns deny reports of Madeleine film”
Writes Gerry McCann on his blog: “We can categorically deny that we are considering a movie about Madeleine’s disappearance. This is simply untrue. We are approached by a huge number of media outlets regarding a myriad of projects, only a tiny proportion of which we agree to. Each proposal is considered on whether it is likely to have a positive effect, either directly or indirectly, on the search for Madeleine”
ON the Guardian website: “Madeleine’s parents consider film - The parents of Madeleine McCann are considering giving the go-ahead to a film about their missing daughter following an approach by a major entertainment firm”
THE TIMES page 3: “Parents may turn Madeleine McCann story into a Hollywood movie”
“On-screen child horror stories:
A Cry In The Dark
Gone Baby Gone
Honour Thy Father And Mother: the True story of the Menendez Brothers
Menenedez: A Killing in Beverly Hills, 1994
The Amityville Horror series
Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure”
Says Clarence Mitchell: The media are making money out of the situation themselves and we feel it is only fair and right that some aspect of that should come to the fund to help find Madeleine”
DAILY TELGRAPH: “McCanns in talks to make a film about AMdldine’s disappearance”
“Do you think a Madeleine film should be made”
Well, we;’ve had the sop opera, and who wants to watch EastEnders: The Movie?
THE SCOTSMAN: “McCanns eye Madeleine film”
BOSTON HERALD: “Missing Madeleine story could become feature film”
The speculation, media hype and sensation so far
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January 3rd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
maybe a film would be seen by her or the kidnapppers and get her home or the strangers she’s with if they didnt actually carry her out of the apartment but they have her so their considered kidnappers also maybe theyll get her home put her in a taxi and taxi her to rothley money’s money and 237 dollars at a party store wasnt much so a taxi aint either
March 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I think that people that take little boy’s and girl’s re sick.Everyday goes by and i wounder wat that poor little girl is going through. Just let her go home
January 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Kate McCann has offered her support to the parents of a five-year-old girl who has vanished in Spain, not far from the Portuguese resort where her own daughter disappeared.
Watch: Search for Mari who disappeared 120 miles
from where Madeleine vanished
The 39-year-old contacted Juan Jose Cortes and Irene Suarez, whose five-year-old daughter Mari Luz went missing from Huelva on Sunday after going out to buy a packet of crisps, to say the couple were in her thoughts.
The Spanish border town is just two hours’ drive from Praia da Luz in the Algarve where the McCanns were staying when four-year-old Madeleine disappeared from their holiday apartment last May.
How was this girl taken? Went missing after going to buy crisps? Who was buying them? I hope the parents didnt send a 5 yr old to buy them. So she was ALSO left alone?
January 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
another blonde girl in Morocco? We were told there are blonde girls there and the one they did investigate was not her.
IMO Madeleine is no longer alive and her parents know what happen that night. I think it is time they stopped with the CAMPAIGN. They are planning a big party for the twins (with what money) b-day and they are hoping Madeleine will be there?
January 17th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The artical in the Express said how Maddie was tract down to a farm in the hills of Morroco a blond haired girl was seen on the said farm. WHY has no one followed it up. What a news story if the Express took the time to search and found her. Doesnt any one care
January 13th, 2008 at 12:38 am
an interesting bit of info…..from the herald sun…
MADELEINE McCann was raped, murdered and her body dumped in a reservoir within 48 hours of her disappearance, a lawyer claims.
Marcos Correia said underworld criminals contacted him on May 6, three days after the British girl vanished, with details of her abduction and murder. He said Portuguese police had ignored him.
The lawyer said he contacted Kate and Gerry McCann’s detective agency, which had begun to investigate his theory.
Mr Correia, 32, said the claim could clear the couple of suspicion that they were involved in their daughter’s disappearance.
Mr Correia believed Madeleine’s body was at the bottom of a reservoir in the Algarve.
“It’s the ideal place to get rid of a body, practically without leaving any trace,” he said.
**IMO why woud these people rape, murder and dump Madeleine and THEN contact this lawyer? I find this hard to believe. Is this just another way to take the guilt off Kate and Gerry.
And isn’t it funny that just as the fund starts to run out of money, Gerry is all for some type of movie? How long are we gonna read about old Gerry and Kate? I will continue to check for any info on Madeleine, but am sick of seeing Gerry and Kate’s face in the news.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
1586
Karen
Yes, well later on last night he was complimenting you. He said I was bad mannered and that at least you were funny as well as being cheeky.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Strange coincidence? - the planning officer for Charnwood distice (Rothley Leicestershire) is a Sarah McCann. Wonder if she is a relative.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Ciara-Louise
Had to go yesterday, so couldn’t answer your post. I wouldn’t worry about Sledgehammer, he was just making a bad joke.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:39 am
1580
Ahh, I didn’t think of that, Peter! I imagine she’d only use it for interrogation.
Congratulations, Hannasus!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am
jon corner to take over mc veys role?
January 10th, 2008 at 7:28 am
1578 Sledgehammer Says: January 10th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Peter O, you appear to have trouble with the innocent until proven guilty theory, no surprise there. Really gone fishing now.
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And you seem to have problems in applying the same standards to the Portuguese Prosecutor. Enjoy your fishing.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am
1564 Wanderer Says: January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am
1562 Keesha
There is an interview in Vanity Fair, I haven’t seen it, but there is an article in The Daily Mail about it (which I’m just looking at now). Here is the link, if you want it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507182&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
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If the Daily Mail reporting of the original Vanity Fair article is broadly correct, then it’s just another pile of self serving bile from Team McCann, in my opinion. I particularly like the admission of “fault” issued in the third person via Philomena’s words:
QUOTE EXTRACT
Mr McCann’s sister Philomena told the magazine that he (Gerry – Peter O edit) had called her on the night Madeleine vanished and sobbed: “It’s all my fault, because Kate and I went out to dinner.”
QUOTE EXTRACT ENDS
Lots of words allegedly from Gerry and Kate about how they wish they could turn back time, to spot the abductor(s), how Gerry wishes he hadn’t gone to the Tapas, but of course as usual no personal admission of “fault”.
Oh yes, and that movie/docu-drama – money making thing gets a mention:
QUOTE EXTRACT
Mr McCann said he had considered the plans for a documentary-drama only because it could address issues such as alert systems to help find lost children.
QUOTE EXTRACT ENDS
No mention of the suspects co-operating fully with the investigation.
I wonder what news they are trying to bury today? How did the meeting of the Limited Company known colloquially as “The Fund” go? Who are the new directors? Why did the old directors quit? What about rumours of blood, questions and possible charges?
January 10th, 2008 at 7:08 am
morning susannah
missed your posts
January 10th, 2008 at 7:08 am
1563 Wanderer Says: January 10th, 2008 at 3:01 am
But will he be knighted?
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Wonder if Her Majesty could get away with a “slip” of the sword? I’d vote!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hey, what about me, would really like that address.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Peter O, you appear to have trouble with the innocent until proven guilty theory, no surprise there. Really gone fishing now.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Ok, I got it, Sledgehammer is a promcc. Would you happen to have the mcc’s address, I hear they are asking for donations to be sent directly to their home, cross out home——-house now.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:00 am
1573 Something that the barmy brigade don’t like…………….facts or statements directly attributable to a reliable source……….definitely gone fishing.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:59 am
1572 Sledgehammer Says: January 10th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Todays test for the barmy brigade, supply some evidence which will be useful in the real world, gone fishing.
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As you and I discussed, and I thought agreed, late last night, by your own standards of “evidence” you equally have no “evidence” to support your opinions.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:54 am
1570 - hannasus
Welcome back to the fold !
January 10th, 2008 at 6:54 am
1572
So, what are you talking about?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Todays test for the barmy brigade, supply some evidence which will be useful in the real world, gone fishing.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:51 am
1568
Kris Says:
Yes, for you and I, and most “normal” people it would take a lifetime.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Mods and Admin,
I went straight through immediately.
Time for celebration.
Yipppeee. Thank you.
Please remove the technical stuff from the last post.
Not necessary anymore. Thank you again.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:43 am
The good news is that when cannot post regularly one tends to post what is really relevant to one at the moment. So for me how the case stands at the moment.
I think the PJ have the body. I have no idea why just a gut feeling. Basically they have suspected the parents from day one and have been researching. Do you think they followed Gerry when his wallet was stolen?
Do you think they followed them when they went to the Christening in the UK?
I think they were given access to state of the art recovery equipment.
The body is their trump card.
But then again this is the rambling of a frustrated poster.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Three DAYS? Your four-year-old daughter goes missing and you grieve for THREE DAYS?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:46 am
hmm, crap article. I would have expected a bit more from Vanity Fair but I guess their audience is a group that doesn’t know the whole story.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Thanks Wanderer
January 10th, 2008 at 3:06 am
1558
Remigius
well said
one things sure with this lot
give them enough rope and….
January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am
1562 Keesha
There is an interview in Vanity Fair, I haven’t seen it, but there is an article in The Daily Mail about it (which I’m just looking at now). Here is the link, if you want it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507182&in_page_id=1770&ct=5