BEN AFFLECK - AFFLECK DRAMA YANKED FROM LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

AFFLECK DRAMA YANKED FROM LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

The London premiere of Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey and Morgan Freeman, has been canceled because of plot similarities with the actual case of Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in Portugal in May. The film was to have been screened at the London Film Festival next month and to open in the U.K. in December. The distributor, Disney's Buena Vista International, said that it had postponed the release of the Miramax film in the U.K. indefinitely because of sensitivity "to the depth of feeling surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann." Ironically, the name of the actress who portrays the child at the center of the Gone Baby Gone movie is Madeline -- Madeline O'Brien -- and reportedly bears a striking resemblance to the missing girl.

13/09/2007