Team Vivid Wins 5 Nightmoves Awards

AXEL BRAUN AND VIVID TEAM SWEEP FIVE AWARDS AT 20TH ANNUAL NIGHTMOVES CEREMONY

TAMPA, FLORIDA– (October 9 2012) – The Vivid Entertainment/Axel Braun team took five trophies at the 20th Annual NightMoves Awards ceremony held here Sunday. Braun was honored as Best Director and also recognized for his work with aLifetime Achievement award.

The Vivid/Braun co-production Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody, believed to be the most expensive porn parody ever made, was named Best Parody Comedy.

The Dark Knight XXX: A Porn Parody starring Aiden Ashley and Andy San Dimas, was selected as Best Parody Drama.

The Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody, another high-budget, sexy superhero-themed spoof from Braun that starred Chyna, Brooklyn Lee and Danni Cole, was chosen as Best Parody Superheroes.

It is the latest in a string of achievements for Braun with Vivid, including the awarding of the coveted 5-A rating by AVN for their last five movies.

“It’s a tremendous honor and quite a thrill to be recognized for doing something I love,” said Braun, who was accompanied at the awards ceremony by his contract girl Aiden Ashley. “These awards belong to my awesome crew, to all the loyal fans who constantly support me, and to Steven and Marci Hirsch and everybody at Vivid, the company that made all this possible,” he added.

 

The Dark Knight XXX Gets Rave Reviews

RAVE REVIEWS AND RECORD SALES FOR AXEL BRAUN’S “THE DARK KNIGHT XXX” FROM VIVID ENTERTAINMENT

DVD copies of “The Dark Knight XXX: A Porn Parody,” began arriving in adult stores across the country today and were immediately scooped up by an eager public. Early reviews raved about the film, directed by Axel Braun and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, which has been available online at vivid.com since July 10th.

“Great great sex and really phenomenal costumes,” reviewer Christopher Thorne wrote in XCritic.com, one of the premier sites devoted to reviews of adult movies. “‘The Dark Knight’ is shot extremely well and has the look and feel of a major production. The real highlight of the film is the end action scenes which shows off what Axel Braun can really do,” Thorne added as he gave the film a “highly recommended” rating.

Art Koch gave the movie “5 out of 5 Stars” in All Adult Network and Night Moves Magazine, noting, “Just when you think nothing can be topped, Axel Braun comes along and presents the ‘The Dark Knight: A Porn Parody.’ The talk, buzz, and hype have been going on for months about this film and it certainly lives up to all of it and more. ‘The Dark Knight XXX’ is a must see, so run, do not walk to your favorite video store when this film hits the streets in a few days. It is destined to be a porn film classic.”

The movie has already attracted mainstream attention, such as a story on popular website Ain’t It Cool that noted, “whatever one may think of ‘porn’ on the whole…Axel is 1) an uber-Geek with both an understanding of/respect for the source material he lampoons; and 2) cares enough to bring surprisingly high quality design and production value to his projects.” Jack Trigger of MajorSpoilers.com, called the movie an “awesomely awesome bit of awesome.”

In the article “A is for Alfred, B is for Batmobile: Dark Knight A-Z”, Australian mainstream outlet NEWS.com.au has the following at the letter X: “You know your career is in a bad place when a porn film looks better than your multi-million dollar, star-studded, Hollywood films. Costume shots from Axel Braun’s Batman porn parody The Dark Knight XXX caused a stir on geek site Ain’t It Cool – but not because they were shocking or explicit, but because they looked frighteningly good. “Already looks better than the Schumacher films” was the damning comment.

Braun — who won 2012 AVN Award for the Best Parody, Best Parody Drama and Best Cinematography categories and earned the Director of the Year (Body of Work) award for the second year in a row – said he was thrilled with the early response to the film. “From everything I’m hearing we are also shattering records for adult DVD sales and streaming downloads from vivid.com. We put a lot of passion into this film, so the early response is very gratifying.