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"Effie Gray" screening at Mill Valley Film Festival was canceled

 millvalley Fanning was set to be the subject of a Spotlight program and Q&A after the film screening; She won't be appearing at the festival this year as a result of the cancellation.

Effie Gray, a film about the "curiously brief marriage and abrupt annulment of famed art critic  John Ruskin and his ethereal child bride – played by actress Dakota Fanning – has canceled its world premiere screening Saturday at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival, with its producer Donald Rosenfeld citing "unforeseen circumstance."

Fanning was set to be the subject of a Spotlight program and Q&A after the screening at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. She won't be appearing at the festival this year as a result of the cancellation.

No specific reason was given for the cancellation, though the film, the screenplay of which was written by famed actress Emma Thompson, has been the subject of a legal fight with Gregory Murphy, a "playwright who alleges that the Oscar-winning actress drew inspiration for her screenplay from his play, The Countess, which was performed in the West End in 2005," according to the The Telegraph newspaper.

Murphy told the paper last month that Thompson and her legal team had until November to reply to an appeal Murphy filed after he lost an earlier legal battle over the film.

Effie Gray had originally been planned to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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From Telegraph Although Donald Rosenfeld, the producer of Emma Thompson’s Effie Gray, assures me it is a “masterpiece,” it looks as if it will be a while yet before cinema audiences can judge for themselves.
Filming of the starry drama, about the Victorian art critic John Ruskin’s unconsummated marriage to Effie Gray, was completed two years ago, but its much-trumpeted premiere at Cannes in May was cancelled. Rosenfeld now cites “unforseen circumstances” for abandoning its postponed premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California.

The makers of the film talked about their “great regret” and “sincerely apologised” for the “inconvenience of this unexpected situation.” Dakota Fanning, who plays the title role alongside Emma Thompson, who also wrote the screenplay, had been expected to take part in a question and answer session and collect an award, but says she will not now be attending the festival.

The plan had been for Effie Gray to open on the East and West coasts of America, but punters who had booked to see it at the Hamptons Film Festival were also told that it had been “withdrawn”.
Rosenfeld was adamant when I spoke to him last month that there are no legal obstacles preventing the film from being shown. However, Gregory Murphy, the writer who alleges that Thompson drew inspiration for her screenplay from his play, The Countess, which was performed in the West End in 2005, tells me the legal battle is “ongoing”.

Dakota Fanning attend Mill Valley Film Festival (October 12)

Dakota Fanning, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Jared Leto among stars to attend Mill Valley Film Festival



MVFF opens with two films on October 3, and runs 11 days.

As in past years, several tributes, and spotlights are scheduled. Director Costa-Gavras, actors Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club), Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Dakota Fanning (Effie Gray), and musicians Thomas Dolby and Mike Bloomfield will all be honored this year.
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*SPOTLIGHT ON DAKOTA FANNING

Having long ago disproved skeptics who wondered if an impossibly adorable, preternaturally confident one-time child star could survive the vagaries of the industry—let alone adolescence—unscathed, Dakota Fanning now shines as an even more accomplished young adult poised on the cusp of thespian greatness. From her breakout appearance at age nine in I Am Sam (for which she became the youngest-ever Screen Actors Guild Award nominee), through expert performances in Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, The Runaways, the Twilight series and The Secret Life of Bees (MVFF, 2008) to a full- fledged leading-lady role in this year’s Festival highlight Effie Gray, Fanning has demonstrated impressive range and an admirable willingness to subvert her good-girl image (as in The Motel Life, also screening this year; see page 50). With spectacular acting chops and a mature perspective that belie her youth, Fanning is no doubt one of her generation’s major talents.

EFFIE GRAY
Director: Richard Laxton

Based on true events that scandalized aristocratic circles of the Victorian era, and penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson, this sumptuous cinematic portrait explores the curiously brief marriage and abrupt annulment of famed art critic John Ruskin and his ethereal child bride, Effie Gray, played by a mesmerizing Dakota Fanning. Click here to read more about, and get tickets to see Effie Gray.

Join us for a Spotlight program featuring a conversation with Dakota Fanning and a screening of Effie Gray.
Miss. Fanning Will be presented with the MVFF Award, designed by acclaimed Mill Valley artist Alice Corning. After the program, join us at Frantoio Ristorante and Olive Oil Co., one of Marin's Premiere dining destinations.

Saturday, October 12 • 6:30 PM
Cristopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center

Program and Reception: $85. General / $75. Members
Program Only: $45. General / $40. Members


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