Toronto Film Fest Won't Screen Aretha Franklin Doc Either

The Toronto International Film Festival has cancelled its upcoming September 12 screening of Sydney Pollack's finally completed Aretha Franklin concert doc "Amazing Grace." The news arrives just after a Colorado federal judge granted the injunction to block Telluride's planned screening on September 4. Franklin's attorneys argue that Pollack—who died in 2008, over three decades after shooting the film in 1972—said he wouldn't use the footage he shot of Franklin without her consent. As reported out of Telluride over the weekend, after a 90-minute hearing, the judge stated that Franklin had granted permission to shoot "Amazing Grace" but producer Alan Elliot, who grabbed...

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