Coco Jones joins Relativity as exec VP

Relativity Media has tapped Coco Jones to serve as exec VP of marketing partnerships.Jones most recently worked at leading mobile media company JiWire and served as VP at Current TV, where she led cross-platform ad sales and partnership development.She will dually report to Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh and Terry Curtin, who was recently named prexy of theatrical marketing.In her new position, Jones will be working with Fortune 500 brands to develop robust marketing programs in and around movies, transmedia, and other premium content produced under Relativity's film, television, and music divisions, as well as Rogue's digital content studio.Jones will lead marketing partnerships on behalf of Relativity's expansive slate of films including the upcoming "Immortals," "Haywire," "Act of Valor," "The Raven," "21 and Over" and Relativity's untitled Snow White pic.Over the course of her 20-year career, Jones has also played key leadership roles in other blue chip media companies, including Wired, Ziff Davis and CNET, indicating that she'll bring a wealth of experience and expertise in new media strategy, branded content and sponsorships to Relativity.Jones has also worked at Yahoo!, where she spent six years managing strategic accounts in entertainment, retail, consumer packaged goods and technology. Additionally, Jones launched Variety's digital platform Variety.com as head of sales and marketing. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

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Dish Network Supplies A Blockbuster Disappointment

Dish Reveals Blockbuster Movie Pass This type of disappointment. Dish Network does the dance in the seven veils since it hints that it's going to undertake Netflix,as well as the large news today could it be will re-brand Blockbuster’s existing streaming and mail-order DVD rental service — and supply it to Dish Network clients ready to pay one more $10 monthly?There’s no chance around it: With Blockbuster Movie Pass, Dishjust blew an opportunity to obtain the momentum from Netflix, that's still spinning within the consumer backlash to its 60% cost hike for clients who would like to still stream movies and rent Digital video disks by mail. Blockbuster Movie Pass can stream 3,000 movies to Tv's, and 4,000 to Computer systems that’s 25% or perhaps a more compact quantity of what Netflix offers. Even Dish doesn’t sell this becoming an important awesome product. The news release calls Blockbuster Movie Pass “the very indepth TV entertainment programming package ever shipped having a multichannel pay TV provider” together with a “pay TV industry first.” Who cares? Blockbuster Movie Pass is just a come-onto subscribe to Dish. That’s understandable for a corporation that lost 135,000 clients inside the second quarter, getting its total to 14.1M. Traders seem to become pleased the initiative doesn’t incorporate a large cost Dish shares are up 4.9% this mid-day. Nonetheless they should enjoy the gains whenever they can. If this describes the most effective Dish is capable of doing, then your organization is at for several hurt as Amazon . com . com, Apple, Google, Walmart in addition to Netflix determine that clients need to visit an imaginative service, notjust a cagey marketing campaign.

Atlas aboard 'Langley'

Atlas Entertainment originates aboard to "Langley High" with Benderspink, two several weeks following the project was introduced at Comic-Disadvantage.The film is going to be created by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment and Benderspink.Story focuses on students from Langley High, the college that's situated just 1.7 miles from CIA headquarters. After his father is taken in Russia and disavowed being an agent from the CIA, a student teams track of an undercover CIA agent teacher from his senior high school and eventually ends up on the mission of revenge.In This summer, Benderspink and Stephen L'Heureux optioned "Langley High" from designers Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman.Atlas is really a producer on "The Dark Dark night Increases" and "Guy of Steel" for Warners. Benderspink lately re-upped its start looking deal at New Line and it is developing "Burt Wonderstone" at New Line and "The Mighty" at Vital. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

It's Official: AMC Orders 'The Walking Dead' Talk Show

Gene Page/AMC"The Walking Dead" It's official: AMC has ordered a talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick to air after The Walking Dead. Talking Dead, AMC's first live aftershow, will serve as a platform for discussion about The Walking Dead. The half-hour series will premiere after the encore presentattions of the hourlong drama on Sunday, Oct. 16. Beginning on Friday, Nov. 4, Talking Dead will air following the show's encores at 11 p.m. Talking Dead will have Hardwick, who hosts G4's Web Soup, with fans, actors and producers and taking questions and comments from viewers. Hardwick also moderated The Walking Dead panel at Comic-Con this year. Michael Davies serves as executive producer of Talking Dead for Embassy Row. Jen Kelly serves as co-executive producer. In August, AMC was mulling a talk show to serve as companion series to its dramas, in the vein of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live. The Walking Dead launches its second season Oct. 16 at 9 p.m. on AMC. AMC The Walking Dead

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Terrence Malick Seen Filming with Christian Bale at Austin City Limits

Here’s a provocative sight: The reclusive Terrence Malick was seen at Austin City Limits filming Christian Bale and Haley Bennet to have an unknown project. Might it have something related to Malick’s rumored Lee Foundation Lewis flick? Are Malick and Bale basically researching for any future film? Or perhaps is another thing afoot? DO U THINK THERE Men? Have a photo from the duo following the jump. Haley Bennet and Terrence Malick at ACL [TerrenceMalic.org]

Michael Mann's daughter has 'Field' day

'Texas Killing Fields'"Texas Killing Fields," which premieres in Venice today, isn't any regular police procedural.As the elements may seem familiar -- two cops must find a serial killer before he strikes again -- the filmmaking team was motivated by not only satisfying an audience's thirst for thrills.Before tyro helmer Ami Canaan Mann even read former Drug Enforcement Agency agent Don Ferrarone's script, she saw a newspaper article having a map from the real killing fields outdoors Houston with pictures of the numerous sufferers and where their physiques have been found."Which was the very first moment -- searching at individuals girls' faces -- which i felt a compulsion to complete whatever I possibly could to inform this story," stated Canaan Mann, who's director Michael Mann's daughter."You will find still 27 cold cases," she ongoing. "And area of the motivation ended up being to get people to understand about this phenomenon of crime in general.InchFerrarone stated it had been his connection with two detectives from Texas City that brought him to create the script."One detective particularly, John Goetschius, opened up my eyes to both suffering from the sufferers and also the mental trauma of the homicide detective placed so on the brink of chaos," he stated. "I particularly desired to give voice towards the sufferers who come under the course referred to as 'thrownaways,' youthful women whose lifestyle, behavior and unstable family structure placed them in danger.InchErina Mann first developed the project we have spent with Ferrarone about the 1990 miniseries "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story." It absolutely was setup having a couple of company directors before, most particularly Danny Boyle.However the film languished until Canaan Mann required a stab in the script with Ferrarone, emphasizing "the haunted house" part of the story and raising the role of the youthful farm girl and potential victim (Chloe Moretz). When Mike Worthington signed on immediately after making "Avatar," the film joined together rapidly, with Bill Block's QED supplying financing.Canaan Mann stated the primary challenge from the film was making the fabric palatable."Whether it was too graphic or literal, it might be a turn-off," she stated, "therefore the trick ended up being to seduce them (audiences) aesthetically."Taking inspiration in the huge landscapes of Texas' bayou country and also the actual crime moments, Canaan Mann characterizes the configurations because this "nowhere middleness which was really terrifying."The film was shot in Louisiana, however, and Canaan Mann, together with her production designer half-sister Aran Mann, stayed searching for locations where would stimulate exactly the same feeling of terror."By accident, we happened upon a forest of skeletal trees, beautiful and haunting, plus they grew to become this perfect visual symbol," Canaan Mann stated.For more stylistic cues, she also reported Peter Weir's "Have a picnic at Hanging Rock," along with the photography of Shaun Brouws and Sally Mann.While Canaan Mann's famous father might have assisted push her sophomore film forward -- her first feature was 2001's "Morning" -- she stated she never felt pressure to meet him, as she was too centered on finishing the film in 32 days within the 100-plus degree Louisiana summer time warmth."It had been an extremely ambitious production, and that we managed to get promptly as well as on budget," stated Canaan Mann happily. "Every single day would be a real victory."At some point throughout the development, nearby citizens unhappy using the film crew began shooting off guns in another incident, Jeffrey Dean Morgan all of a sudden screamed throughout a go while he almost went into an alligator."The terrain am aesthetically unusual, it had been worthwhile all," Canaan Mann stated. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Reese Witherspoon Hit by Vehicle, along with other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: Gatsby goes Bollywood … An avant-garde legend dies … Steven Spielberg assumes someone for Robopocalypse … Hollywood’s latest plastic-surgery nightmare fuel … and much more. · Yikes! Reese Witherspoon was struck by an 84-year-old lady driver Wednesday while jogging in La. The Oscar-champion was treated for minor injuries in a nearby hospital and launched. Thank heavens. Joggers everywhere, have a safety and health tip from me: Just stop working out. [LAT] · Baz Luhrmann is finally getting his $127 million, 3-D Great Gatsby adaptation aloft around australia, with new cast addition Amitabh Bachchan — yes, that Amitabh Bachchan, the inveterate Bollywood idol — playing the “shadowy gangster” Meyer Wolfsheim. Aussies Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke have signed on too, joining topliners Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. [Variety] · The gonzo/avant-garde cinema guru George Kuchar — who, together with his twin brother Mike, produced one half-century’s price of no-budget curios which have affected two decades of do-it-yourself filmmakers — died on Tuesday carrying out a fight with cancer of the prostate. He was 69. [NYT] · Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks — which already has partners in India’s Reliance conglomerate and distributor Disney — have finally enlisted Fox’s foreign-distribution muscle for his next pointing project, the megabudget sci-fi blockbuster hopeful Robopocalypse. It’s presently set to spread out This summer 3, 2013. Maybe Vital can give you the craft services. [Deadline] · Congratulations to 17-year-old Ali Lohan on her precocious, preternatural advancement towards the Cosmetic Surgery Nightmare Hall of Fame. It’s sick, it’s sad, it’s the Lohans. [Yahoo!] · “Brett Cummins, a 33-year-old KARK meteorologist, awoke on Monday inside a bath tub alongside a corpse putting on your dog collar.” Obviously he did. [Huffington Publish]

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