![]() ![]() Haddix nor Simon & Schuster has yet to contact Mr. Shyamalan is in Europe promoting ''The Village,'' Mr. ![]() Rice said he spoke on behalf of Disney and Blinding Edge Pictures, Mr. Haddix said.īut Dennis Rice, senior vice president for publicity at Buena Vista Pictures, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, said yesterday, ''Whatever claims are being made of similarities between the book and the movie have no merit.'' ![]() ''The spoiler ending is the thing that is the biggest similarity,'' Ms. The author, Margaret Peterson Haddix, said she saw ''The Village'' on Tuesday after receiving several telephone calls and e-mail messages from friends and from fans noting the parallels between the film and her book, ''Running Out of Time,'' published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. The author of an award-winning novel for teenagers - set in an isolated 19th-century village where the adults keep a deep secret from the children - said yesterday that she recognized numerous similarities between her book and the recently released film ''The Village'' by M. ![]()
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