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 10th, 2008 at 3:01 am
But will he be knighted?
January 10th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Vanity Fair??
Pls explain..thanks
January 10th, 2008 at 2:54 am
gerry you are such a hero
sigh
January 10th, 2008 at 2:49 am
latest
Vanity Fair exclusive interview with gerry
‘We can’t cry our eyes out every day, because that’s not helping. So after three days I picked myself up - quicker than Kate could’
another load of old……
January 10th, 2008 at 2:38 am
1541 a McCann supporter
And “libelous?”
Hardly. And especially not after the Vanity Fair article. No, the McCanns themselves have put the bull’s eye on themselves from May3 and beyond.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:35 am
1541 a McCann supporter
Well, we KNOW they did it, mate! If there were an evil abductor, there would be some evidence by now. but there’s none. And then there is that blood in the apartment, that blood in the car, cadaver fluid in the boot, the smell of death on Kate, the doggies….
But we still don’t know HOW they did it! although Dr. Gerry seems to come close to telling us in his Vanity Fair interview, when he says that “Kate killed her in a frenzy.
That’s called “a freudian slip” and it is no coincidence it comes as the FIRST answer. The following answers, that Madeleine might have fallen or died from having been sedated….these are obviously not true. Although I think it’s possible Madeleine WAS sedated, but based on Gerry’s comments, she likely did not die from this alone.
But die she did. Even Gerry admits her chances of being alive are “slim.”
Enough is not enough here.
Kate is said by Corner to have claimed that the supposed evil abductor was “watching the family and taking notes.” Taking notes? Isn’t that what Kate herself was doing?
These two are bonkers, but very dangerous. WE at Anorak barely need to write the satire, because with Kate, Gerry, Corner, etc., the satire just writes itself, honestly.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am
1513 Mariarty
Think of Maddie then play the game speak soon
January 10th, 2008 at 1:10 am
962
Sledgehammer Says: January 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
..”……there are no winners except I hope justice.”….
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……But isn’t Justice a whore who sells herself to the highest bidder?….
January 10th, 2008 at 1:03 am
1554
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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OMG you must be stopped
please dont tar us all with the same feather… 
please you must reconsider - what can i do to change your mind oh god no not a fellow rooster.
nite nite totje xxx
January 10th, 2008 at 12:57 am
1553
RedRooster,
Defenceless rooster, what are you talking about! They are not, I repeat not, defenceless.
Years ago I had to take a clothes-hanger with me when I left my car to enter my parents house. The d***d rooster attacked me [and other people] and that was soo unfair because I once saved his life. My parents neighbour was a farmer, guess what happened to the rooster
January 10th, 2008 at 12:49 am
1552
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Well thanks RR.
It’s over now! War declared! I’ll teach puppy to chase roosters in stead of cats!
I’m soooooo disappointed, you’re leaving me.
Bye.
Off to bed too and kick snoring mrT
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hey have i missed something - war declared on a poor defenceless rooster
January 10th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Well thanks RR.
It’s over now! War declared! I’ll teach puppy to chase roosters in stead of cats!
I’m soooooo disappointed, you’re leaving me.
Bye.
Off to bed too and kick snoring mrT!
January 10th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Never trust an Eskimo with a hole in his kayak, a philosopher with a hole in his logic, or a rooster with a cock in its doodle do.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Nite nite Peter O
January 10th, 2008 at 12:42 am
1547
Peter O Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Oh.. I should go to bed! Sweet dreams one and all.
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im gone too, not hanging round with the 2 muppets G and S…..nite nite all xxx
January 10th, 2008 at 12:40 am
1544
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
1537
RedRooster
Does the link work tomorrow ?
I’m really tired
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yes unless it gets pulled by you tube
for your ref its post 1443 matt …
January 10th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Oh.. I should go to bed! Sweet dreams one and all.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:39 am
1541
a McCann supporter Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:37 am
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if you’re not happy leave through that door - yes the one on your left bye bye
otherwise stop bloody winging
January 10th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Nite Nite CSN, sleep well and don’t forget to lock the doors and windows [as I do too often]
January 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
1537
RedRooster
Does the link work tomorrow ?
I’m really tired
January 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
1531
can’t say no,
Don’t know who’s got it wrong, time will tell
January 10th, 2008 at 12:37 am
1539
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Till tomorrow All
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nite nite xxx
January 10th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Mods and Admin …. Surely this is libelous ………..
Quote …………….. They did it. End of discussion. This and other like comments seem to be the only thing that I read on this forum, apart from stupid, childish comments which have no relevance to the plight of Madeleine. I know that Anorak is a satire forum but surely enough is enough.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
1528 * mans = men! [double dutch] ;’)
January 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Till tomorrow All
January 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
1514 Garth Says: January 10th, 2008 at 12:24 am
1496 Peter O Says: January 10th, 2008 at 12:14 am
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When I say the Pj are corrupt, of course, I’m generalising. I do, infact, mean someone within the force and like you say, someone who has influence. Its not as wild as it seems. Edit…. If you understand what Im getting at?
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I do understand what you are getting at, I just think it’s wild and completely unfounded speculation, in my opinion. Sorry.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:35 am
1533
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
1530
RedRooster
Nope
And i don’t intend
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i think you should……clarence gets somewhat ripped apart and appears to be digging a rather large hole for k and g imo
January 10th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Peter O
Hope you are right
I can’t see the P.J. ,at this moment ,after all that was said ,risking anything
January 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am
January 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am
1506 can’t say no Says: January 10th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Why is always about the mistakes that the P.J. did ,and never blame the brits cops ?
Everybody knows they were there
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I think what is more interesting is that this “point” is often raised by those defending the McCann’s while at the same telling those of us who suspect them that we can’t believe what appears in the media. i.e. Double standards and often just part of the Team McCann “strategy” to rubbish every aspect of the investigation.
It’s actually an irrelevant accusation unless charges are ever brought in which case we can be certain the Team McCann will attempt to rubbish every single piece of evidence and have each ruled inadmissible. I prefer to believe that Mr Rebello is a very thorough gentleman and he is currently making sure that anything they depend upon as evidence will be beyond reproach in court.