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MGM Promotes Blake Flynn to Vice President, Business Affairs, Worldwide TV Distribution LOS ANGELES, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., a division of MGM Inc. , has promoted Blake Flynn to vice president, business affairs, worldwide television distribution, announced Lisa Klein Fitzpatrick, to whom Flynn reports. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011119/MGMLOGO ) "Over the past few years, Blake has really developed as a business and legal affairs executive, helping our business people conclude major licensing agreements throughout the world," said Fitzpatrick, who is senior vice president, business and legal affairs, worldwide television distribution. "This promotion recognizes that growth and his great work." Flynn oversees negotiations on MGM television agreements with its many carriage partners overseas and with domestic broadcast and basic cable networks, among other duties. He most recently was senior counsel, business affairs, worldwide television distribution. Flynn joined MGM in 1993 as a legal intern in the entertainment business group. He subsequently became a special projects attorney for MGM from 1995 to 1997, spent a year as counsel handling film matters for the legal division, before moving to worldwide television distribution in 1998. Flynn received a juris doctor degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1995. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1992. While at Harvard, he played and was an assistant coach for the school's rugby team. About MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (NYSE:MGM), through its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. subsidiary, is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music, and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world's largest modern film library, comprised of about 4,000 titles, and has a television library of more than 10,000 episodes of programming. Its operating units include MGM Pictures, United Artists, MGM Television Entertainment, MGM Networks, MGM Distribution Co., MGM Worldwide Television Distribution, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM On Stage, MGM Consumer Products, MGM Music, MGM Interactive and MGM Online. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in international television channels reaching more than 100 countries on six continents. For more information, visit http://www.mgm.com/. For further information, please contact David Bloom, VP, corporate communications of MGM, +1-310-449-3660, . http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011119/MGMLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. CONTACT: David Bloom, VP, corporate communications of MGM, +1-310-449-3660, Web site: http://www.mgm.com/

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