VIP 2000 TV Scores MGM Movies for Latin America

MIAMI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) is supplying the free-TV rights for a number of movie titles, including The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, to VIP 2000 TV for 14 countries across Latin America.

Along with the rights for the second film in the Hobbit trilogy, the package includes a number of library movies as well as two series, Teen Wolf and the new Flipper. VIP 2000 TV now holds the rights for select MGM titles in Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Uruguay and Panama.

Roxana Rotundo, the CEO of VIP, commented, “Vinicio is an executive with a strong work ethic and a great understanding of VIP’s operations. We look forward to doing more business with him.”

“Roxana and the VIP team are strong partners for MGM in the free-TV business, and we are happy to have built on our initial deal,” added Vinicio Espinosa, the VP of international television distribution at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.