LOS ANGELES, CA – September 28, 2007 – Fox Latin America nabbed all Latin American rights to Stone Village Pictures’ highly anticipated Love in the Time of Cholera, it was announced today by Fox Latin America’s executive vice president Eduardo Echeverria and Stone Village partner/producer Scott Steindorff. Based on the acclaimed book by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera was directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), adapted for the screen by Academy Award winner Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and produced by Steindorff.

Fox is planning a December holiday release for the film in Central and South American territories, following its November 16 Stateside release from New Line Cinema. Ray Strache, director of acquisitions for Twentieth Century Fox, brought the title into the Fox fold while Summit Entertainment handled international sales on behalf of Stone Village Pictures. The deal was negotiated by Fox business affairs executive Megan O’Brien and by partner/head of business affairs Andrew Molasky on behalf of Stone Village. The film will mark its world premiere in early October at the prestigious Rio Film Festival.

"We at Fox in Latin America are thrilled with this amazing and spectacular film that brings justice to the brilliant, romantic novel from Gabriel García Márquez,” stated Echeverria. “Moviegoers all over the region and beyond will be blown away by Mike Newell’s masterpiece. We will not leave any stone unturned to ensure that Love in the Time of Cholera receives the largest audience ever for a Latin novel turned into a film.”

“We can’t imagine a better homecoming for Love in the Time of Cholera than through Fox Latin America,” said Stone Village Pictures partner and producer Scott Steindorff. “No one is better prepared than Fox to shepherd Cholera home to the countries responsible for the book and García Márquez’ global success.”

Love in the Time of Cholera spans a half-century in the complex, magical and sensual city of Cartagena, Columbia. This sweeping, romantic epic tells the story of a man who waits over fifty years for his one true love, and features a lauded cast including Academy Award nominees Javier Bardem, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Fernanda Montenegro, as well as Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Hector Elizondo and Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo.

About Stone Village Pictures
Love in the Time of Cholera is the latest project in a promising slate for Stone Village Pictures, which is committed to film financing, coming from a fiscally conservative approach. The company’s modern-day fable Penelope, produced alongside Reese Witherspoon’s Type-A Films and starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant and Witherspoon, will be released domestically by Summit in February 2008. Other forthcoming Stone Village features include The Tortilla Curtain; the remake of the 1954 Jules Dassin film Rififi; as well as Ron Bass’ adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer.” Stone Village partners include Scott Steindorff, Andrew Molasky, Robin and Danny Greenspun.

Committed to bringing strong, beautiful stories from page to screen, Steindorff has also produced the critically acclaimed film The Human Stain based on the Philip Roth book and starring Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins as well as the Golden Globe award-winning miniseries “Empire Falls” for HBO which also garnered 10 Emmy nominations.

About Fox Latin America
In addition to Love in the Time of Cholera, Fox Latin America has a diverse slate of upcoming films, including Luc Besson’s action-packed Hitman, Walden’s action-adventure The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, MGM/UA’s highly anticipated Lions for Lambs, Hector Babenco’s El Pasado, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, as well as the holiday releases of Alvin and the Chipmunks and Aliens vs. Predator 2. Fox has recently released such blockbusters as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Die Hard 4.0 and, most recently, The Simpsons Movie.

Twentieth Century Fox International is a unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a segment of Fox Entertainment Group.