Cornerstone has acquired worldwide sales rights to A Waiter in Paris, starring Leo Woodall and Clémence Poésy.
The film is the feature debut of Peter Hoar (The Last of Us, It’s a Sin). BBC Film and Curzon, Cineart, and Madman are on board as key financiers. The project has pre-sold to Curzon for the UK, Cineart for Benelux, and Madman in Australia. Cornerstone will launch sales at Cannes and will co-rep the US with WME Independent.
A Waiter in Paris is adapted by Ben Hopkins (Fuze) from the memoir of the same name by Edward Chisholm. The official synopsis reads: “L’Anglais – depressed, over-educated, and about to turn thirty – arrives in Paris and resolves to prove himself in the city of his dreams by joining the sharp-suited brotherhood of Parisian waiters. What follows is intoxicating: nights spilling from the glamorous-looking brasserie into the streets of Bastille, love,
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