Date 09/09/2015 - News People
The producers of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace have withdrawn the film from the Toronto Film Festival amid a legal dispute with the singer.
Last week, a screening of Amazing Grace was halted just hours beforehand at the Telluride Film Festival by a federal judge in Denver. Lawyers for Franklin filed a lawsuit to prevent its release, claiming footage used in the film, shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972, can only be used with Franklin's consent.