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UK PSYCHICS REPORT - 17 September 2007 |
 A US film about a four-year-old girl's disappearance has had its UK release shelved because of its striking similarities to the Madeleine McCann case. Gone Baby Gone, the directorial debut of actor Ben Affleck, was due to be released on 28 December. However, this week the film's distributor, Buena Vista International, announced that it was postponing its release "indefinitely" in view of the extraordinary coincidences between it and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, and out of sensitivity to "the depth of feeling surrounding" the McCann case. "We have been closely following the (McCann) case and have decided to delay the release of the film in the UK," a statement said. Perhaps the most striking similarity is the uncanny resemblance between the child actor in the movie - whose name, to stretch the coincidence even further, is also Madeline (O'Brien) - and missing Madeleine McCann. Gone Baby Gone was based on a 1998 novel by Dennis Lehane and was filmed a year ago, before Madeleine McCann's disappearance. The film, starring Affleck's brother Casey and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, follows two Boston private detectives who are called in to assist in the search for a missing child.
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