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CANNES 2007 Market / Uk

Capitol launch for Peter Naish

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Capitol Films, one of the UK’s leading independent sales companies, is at Cannes with a new chief, Peter Naish, and new offices at 63 La Croisette.

Appointed just a few weeks ago, the former head of distribution at Icon Entertainment is joined at the festival by the rest of the Capitol team: Jane Barclay (for whom it will be the last Cannes with the company she co-founded some 17 years ago), Nick Hill (co-managing director), James Norrie (head of sales) and Sofia Neves (sales director).

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Nine titles are being negotiated by Capitol’s sales representatives, including two new US pick-ups: the Jennifer Lopez vehicle Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, written and directed by Don Roos, and The Fortress of Solitude by the director of Maria Full of Grace, Joshua Marston.

Currently shooting in Wales is The Edge of Love (previously known as The Best Time of our Lives, see article) directed by John Maybury, who had his Cannes debut with Love is the Devil in 1998. The modern take on Dylan Thomas’ life stars Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys. Rebekah Gilbertson and Sarah Radclyffe are producing and Lionsgate has just picked up UK and Australian rights.

Incendiary by Sharon Maguire (director of Bridget Jones’s Diary) and Andy Paterson (producer of Girl with a Pearl Earring [+see also:
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) will be available as a promo reel. The film currently shooting stars Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor and has been picked up for the UK by Optimum Releasing.

Rigoberto Castañeda’s thriller Blackout, a UK/Spanish co-production now in post-production, will also be presented as a promo reel.

Three other films are screening at the market are the Irish horror film Shrooms [+see also:
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by Paddy Breathnach (today), John Dahl’s You Kill Me, and Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.

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