Steven Flynn, a longtime for Focus Options, Gramercy Photos, Orion Photos and different firms, has died. He was 70. His longtime companion Timothy Kraus confirmed to Deadline that Flynn died Might 23 at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica after a four-year battle with renal most cancers.
Flynn was born on November 19, 1954, and grew up in Fenton, MI, and was the supervisor at a neighborhood Ann Arbor movie show whereas attending the College of Michigan. He was doing promo work for United Artists Theatres in 1977 when he coordinated a university soccer halftime present that featured a present movie known as Star Wars. Salah M. Hassanein, then-president of UA Theaters’ Jap Division, summoned Flynn to New York Metropolis and employed him. Below his Hassanein’s tutelage, rose to SVP of Promoting for the division.
He remained at UA till 1990, when he grew to become VP Subject Publicity and Promotions/Exhibitor Relations at Orion Photos in New York. There, he labored on a lot of its releases together with back-to-back Finest Image Oscar winners Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Flynn moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and shaped Edge Advertising, an indie advertising and marketing and promotions firm. The next yr he was employed by Gramercy Photos President Russell Schwartz as SVP Advertising and would stay with the corporate by its 1999 merger with October Movies to develop into USA Movies. He had an enormous arms in Gramercy’s outstanding Nineties run that additionally included Fargo, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Huge Lebowski, Useless Man Strolling and The Traditional Suspects.
“Steven was my first rent at Gramercy Photos and shortly confirmed himself to be essentially the most optimistic and problem-solving advertising and marketing govt I ever met,” Schwartz mentioned. “Below his supervision, he dealt with the whole lot marketing-related, and even organized your complete back and front workplace throughout Gramercy’s early days. Gramercy was the closest firm to Camelot that many people had ever labored at and Steven’s presence was an enormous a part of it. It’s no surprise his e mail handle is mrmovies@msn.com.”
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USA Movies merged with Good Machine in 2001 to create Focus Options, the place Flynn was EVP Advertising till 2007. He went on to work at in varied roles as a advertising and marketing advisor at Vivendi Leisure, Nationwide Geographic, 42 West, twentieth Century Fox, his former Focus Options and Sony Photos Leisure.
He was a members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ Advertising and Public Relations Department for almost 30 years till his dying.
Alongside together with his 43-year Kraus, Flynn is survived by sisters Linda Flynn-Coyle and Patricia Flynn-Alexander (Craig), niece Shelby Myers (Mike), nephews Jeff Alexander (Shannon) and Sean Coyle and a number of great-nieces and -nephews.
