Former Pro-Wrestler/Adult Superstar Hosts LA’s Sexiest Holiday Party Sponsored by Vivid Vodka

LOS ANGELES – (December 7, 2011) – Former pro-wrestler turned Vivid Entertainment star Chyna, known as the “Ninth Wonder of the World” in her professional wrestling days, will host a sexy New Year’s Eve party at Ecco Ultra Lounge, 1640 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. Chyna has invited a bevy of adult superstars to meet and greet guests and pose for snapshots at the open-to-the-public party, which starts at 9pm and goes to 4am (guests must be 21 years of age and up). Vivid Vodka, the edgiest new super premium drink, is sponsoring the bash and providing a free sample tasting from 9-10pm.

“Ecco Ultra is hands down the hottest club in LA this year and I know this will be the sexiest and most exciting party,” Chyna declared. “Everyone will have a great time, especially me and the girls.”

Chic Ecco Ultra, which will celebrate its fourth anniversary at the event, is known for great dance music and its deep, dirty and sexy house vibes for the party crowd.  The Vivid/Chyna party will rock to house and progressive music with top DJs Mark Lewis, Armen, Anthony Shah, Angeline, BlackLiouid and Gago in the main room and mashup/hip hop music with DJ Skyler in the outdoor tent.

Chyna says she’s thrilled that she has made the transition from wrestling to adult acting – she is currently the star of the runaway hit movie “Backdoor to Chyna” from Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film company. She is the only female in professional wrestling history to compete full time in the men’s division where she twice held the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

“This has been a great year for me and I know my loyal fans have had a lot to do with making my Vivid movie such a hit,” says Chyna. “I can’t wait to celebrate at Ecco and dance my butt off,” said Chyna.

Ecco Ultra is Hollywood’s “first eco-friendly” lounge and offers free valet service if you drive a Prius, energy-efficient LED lighting, a slick all black design scheme, organic cuisine and environment made of  state-of-the-art green materials.

About Vivid: Founded in 1984, Vivid has always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment and has created wide brand-name awareness through its films, innovative marketing and a licensing program that extends to advertising, apparel, book publishing, and a range of other products. TV audiences have gotten to know the company’s management and talent through two seven-part series on Showtime, “Debbie Does Dallas…Again” and “Deeper Throat.” In addition to its Vivid-Celeb imprint famous for celebrity sex tapes, the company is known for its Vivid SuperXXXHeroes parodies and award-winning feature films. The Vivid website, www.vivid.com has a loyal following of fans of Vivid movies from the industry’s largest archive.

About Vivid Vodka: Vivid Vodka is a smooth tasting, crystal clear super premium vodka from White Star Marketing. Its personality is hip, provocative, edgy and playful and it has earned a score of 90 from the Beverage Testing Institute. Vivid Vodka is made in America from wheat grain grown in the Great Plains, using pure Cascade Mountains water. Distilled five times, the vodka is also specially filtered through 12,000 pounds of virgin coconut husks, then further micro-filtered to smooth out the peaks and valleys. White Star Marketing is a San Diego-based firm that develops premium spirits for distribution throughout the United States and selected foreign markets. For more information visit www.vividvodka.com  and /or at www.facebook.com/vividvodka.   

Press contact: jackie@vivid.com or 800-762-4761.   

First of all, I found it a little creepy that someone would use the death of a person to promote their porno but that isn’t really what I found off about the email.

I don’t know about you but I would venture to guess that Pirates or Pirates 2 from Digital Playground, a parody of sorts of Pirates of the Caribbean, would probably be “the #1 selling porn parody of all time”.  I can’t say for sure, but then again … can Will Ryder?

Which porno parody really is the best selling “of all time”?  Would it be Pirates?  What about Vivid’s Batman?  I heard that did extremely well.  What about BatFXXX from Bluebird?  It won a ton of awards last year and they spent a crazy amount of money making it.

While we can pretty much guess that Will Ryder pulled his stats out of his ass, I do wonder what porno parody really is the best selling of all time.

I also wonder how many different ways he will find to exploit the sale of his movies.  Of course this is the same man that one time sent out a press release to promote the sale of one of his movies levering the story of a porn star who was raped, so seeing him promote the real death of someone to promote his movie shouldn’t surprise me.

Will Ryder I totally get that you are a PR machine and want to promote your movies but maybe before you rush to write up a press release you should stop and ask yourself, is this really tacky of me?  Should I really be promoting my movie when talking about some girl being raped or someone dying?  Also while I’m at giving advice you should really think about some of the things that come out of your mouth like you invented the porno parody genre or that one of your movies is the best selling porn parody of all time.

Those kind of things diminish any real accomplishments you may have.

You make some good movies, you should be totally proud of that.  You don’t need to just make up stupid stuff that most of us know are just flat out lies to make yourself look better.  You really don’t.  Unlike some people in our industry, you’ve actually paid your dues.  You actually make rather good movies.  So you don’t need all the bullshit hype.

Click here to watch the official Vivid version of the movie trailer for the Tila Tequlia sex tape

Brazzers (aka Manwin) owns a website called Porn Hub.  This website allows their users to upload movies they don’t own or have the rights to (which is illegal – it’s called copyright infringement).  Brazzers then also allows the people who join their membership website to benefit by watching these movies.  Lots of stolen videos are on the site from all kinds of studios.  Vivid spent a lot of money getting their hands on the legal rights to distribute this Tila Tequila movie.  Guess it sucks to be them because some people are profiting off of it long before it even hits the streets.

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Luckily I happen to had a few great shots from the movie for you guys.  I’ll include them at the very bottom of this post.  Doesn’t Tori Black look hot as fuck as Catwoman?  As much as Vivid annoys the fuck out of me about their press releaes, you gotta give them some serious fucking kudos for their Tori Black selection in this movie.

Now on to the actual news …. Vivid is having a Batman XXX party.

WHO: Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film studio, is hosting a bat centric celebration of the Axel Braun movie “Batman XXX: A Porn Parody,” the best selling adult movie of 2010.

WHAT: “Batman XXX” stars Lexi Belle (Batgirl) and Tori Black (Catwoman), along with Alexis Texas and Andy San Dimas, will be on hand to meet with guests, pose for snapshots and sign autographs.

WHERE: The celebration will be held at The Mirage hotel’s JET nightclub, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV / 8910. Tele: 702-792-7900.

JET combines 15K square feet of space in a modern multi-level environment. It’s one-of-a-kind light and laser grid, state-of-the-art cryogenic effects systems and the best sound design technology puts JET in a class of its own.

WHEN: The revelries start at 10:30 pm Friday, January 7th.

This movie is available on DVD.  Go fucking buy it.

Vivid Entertainment has announced that it has acquired a sex tape starring 21-year-old brunette beauty Brittney Jones, famous for her alleged brief but passionate liaison with Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher.  The studio has also posted R-rated photos from the tape on www.vivid.com.

It’s been widely reported that the two engaged in sex on a living room sofa in Kutcher’s Beverly Hills home after he met Brittney at a Hollywood’s Lucky Strike bowling alley. Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore are among the highest profile married couples in Hollywood.

Vivid has obtained never-before-released footage that shows Brittney engaged in very explicit, uninhibited sex with a former boyfriend. Ashton’s fans will undoubtedly enjoy seeing what the star himself may have experienced, in this exclusive video.

“We’ve acquired the tape and confirmed its authenticity. Brittney is obviously a beautiful young girl who could clearly seduce any man,” said Steven Hirsch, founder/co-chairman of the world’s leading adult film company. “We’ve consulted with our attorneys and feel comfortable that we will be able to distribute the tape.”

The tape, Brittney Jones Confidential, will be released on December 14th online at www.vivid.com and at stores across the country.

In response to this news Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher took legal steps of their own, demanding Vivid cease using Ashton Kutcher’s name in promotion of this movie that he was in no way, in any shape or form involved in the production of.  Their stance is apparently this is a Brittney Jones sex tape and Ashton Kutcher isn’t in this movie so don’t use his name to pimp it out.  Guess we’ll see what happens next.

Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film studio, is set to resume movie production on Monday November 8th after being shut down for almost a month because of health safety concerns.

Vivid halted production immediately and voluntarily on Tuesday, October 12th after AIM Healthcare announced that an unidentified adult film performer had tested positive for HIV.

“We made the decision to halt production as the health and well-being of our performers is of utmost importance to us,” said Steven Hirsch, founder/co-chairman of Vivid. “We can now confirm that all performers who were on the quarantine list as a result of being exposed to the HIV positive performer have gone through two rounds of testing and the results are negative. We believe that AIM acted professionally and thoroughly and proved that their system works. We will, of course, continue to require recent test results for all performers in our movies and will continue to take all necessary precautions to assure their health and safety.“

Although Vivid did not start any new movies while production was halted, the studio used the time to complete post production work on a backlog of previously produced films.

LOS ANGELES — (October 22, 2010) – Vivid Entertainment will start production of Sister Wives XXX: A Porn Parody at the end of November.

Award-winning director B. Skow will direct the parody.

The popular TLC reality TV series “Sister Wives” is about the relationship dynamics of a modern day Utah-based polygamist family, including salesman-husband Kody Brown and his four wives – Meri, Janelle, Christine and the recently added Robyn.

“I’m a big fan of this show and I feel the possibilities for parody are practically endless,” said Skow. “We’ll have fun spoofing the characters and taking that extra behind-the-scenes step inside their bedrooms to understand their erotic sides.”

Vivid is holding open casting for the movie starting Monday October 25th and adult performers who want to audition for the role of Kody or any of the wives should have their agents contact producer Shylar Cobi at shylar@vividcorp.com.

Vivid is the world’s leading adult movie studio. Earlier this year Vivid distributed the Axel Braun produced Batman XXX: A Porn Parody a send-up of the 1960s TV series which was at the top of the sales charts for several months. The movie has already won Best Parody award at the 18th Annual NightMoves Awards Show and at The Fifth Annual F.A.M.E. Awards (Fans of Adult Media & Entertainment).

Note: Discovery Communications, LLC has claimed a trademark for Sister Wives™. TLC ® is a registered trademark of Discovery Communications, LLC. Batman® is a registered trademark of DC Comic General Partnership. Sister Wives XXX: A Porn Parody is not sponsored, endorsed by or affiliated with Discovery Communications, LLC or DC Comics General Partnership.

It seems that all we hear about lately is one sex tape after another like Montana Fishburne, Karissa Shannon, Kendra Wilkinson, Danielle Staub (from Housewife of NJ fame) Mindy McCreedy, and the list goes on and on. People seem to think that if it is a scandal or not a “planned” movie (not counting Miss Fishburne) than it is a hot ticket item and the more famous the person, the more tantalizing the movie. So why not use your tryst with Tiger to get your name out there. The 15 minutes of fame for being one of Tiger’s mistresses is over, so a girl has to do what a girl has to do to make that 15 minutes last longer and getting your name in the headlines again for a “sex tape” is a perfect way to get people talking about you again. So all I have to say to Devon James, is YOU GO GIRL!

*UPDATE* RadarOnline reports that Devon is trying to pitch the tape to Vivid. “This sex tape is worth at least $350,000,” James said, exclusively. “If Vivid won’t pay enough, we’re going to self-release the tape… It’s going to be the bomb.”

When asked about the impending meeting, Vivid’s head honcho Steve Hirsch told RadarOnline.com: “We can’t comment at this time.”

I hope that Devon James realizes that what money she could get from self-releasing the tape will all be spent on legal fees with the multimillionaire Tiger Woods takes her to court!

Hello my name is Mandee and well this is officially my first movie review for the Luke Ford website.   I will be posting several movie reviews for you in the future so I hope you find them helpful.

The first scene starts off with Meggan Mallone walking around in jean shorts and a pink polka dot bikini top. She meets up with a friend of hers and they get a stranger to take their photo together as if they were tourists.  Turns out the two are supposed to be from Ohio there in California for a vacation.

Eventually they make their way to the beach and again run into the guy who took their picture earlier. He helps them in their pursuit of finding some celebrities. They find their way onto his boat and as her friend goes to take a phone call Meggan and the stranger, played by Rocco Reed to start to make out. Making out leads to fucking in just about every part of his boat house.   These two are great together.  It’s a very good scene in terms of sexual energy and passion.

In the next scene we see Gianna Lynn playing with her breasts, then heads to the couch to see her fiance.  She misses him and she can’t wait to have sex with him.  As he starts to eat her pussy you notice right away she didn’t shave that day. With a day or so worth of growth on her pussy it gives it a very unusually dark look. It’s hard to explain how it looks other than to say it looks weird. I felt sorry for the dude trying to eat her pussy. You know that fucking stubble didn’t feel good.

Next Gianna Lynn got face fucked then they made their way to the bed and she rode his cock. This scene was strangely not Paul Thomas like. The energy just wasn’t there at all. Normally he gets more out of her performers but this time it just looked so strangely forced. She was trying to hard and the guy was just phoning it in. Trent Tesoro didn’t have much chemistry with Gianna Lynn at all.  While they were fucking thy got interrupted. It seems the maid came in to clean the room. As she said she would come back later he told her that was okay. Instead he threw her on the couch and started fucking her. Her seemed far more into Holly West than he did the last girl.  Soon Gianna Lynn joined the two and it made for a great threesome. The scene got much better when Holly West joined the mix.  The scene ended rather strangely. While her man was still fucking the maid, she quickly jumped out of bed, put on her clothes, grabbed her suitcase and took off. The other two didn’t seem to notice or case or care that the chick took off.

In the next scene she hooks up with not one, but two men, neither of which were her fiance. The two men she hooks up with this time are Alan Stafford and Joey Brass. There seems to be very little reason as to why she decided to go off and fuck two other guys when her fiance was in town, other than “some unfinished business” but this is a porno so really do you need a reason to fuck?  Gianna Lynn is more sexually aggressive than most females so pairing her with the right men is important. You can really see the difference from the last scene and the sex just comes off much hotter. Again the only real problem I have with her is that the bitch really needs to shave her fucking pussy. That shot looks so fucking nasty because, all black and seriously, someone buy the bitch a fucking razor already.

At the end of the scene both the men unload on her nice, big titties.  That was pretty hot.

In the next scene it’s time for everyone to go back to Ohio or Idaho, wherever they are from.  Meggan Mallone reveals she is going to stay in California and move in with the guy she fucked the other day. In this part of the movie Meggan and Gianna Lynn’s fiance have a heated exchange of words where basically he calls her a slut for just hooking up and moving in with some random guy.  What is interesting about this scene is that in real life Meggan Mallone was in a relationship with Trent.  But by the way those two went at each other, you wouldn’t have guessed it.  Guess it’s true what they said about Paul Thomas and his ability to bring out the best in any porn actress.

Meggan Mallone heads over to her new place and it is there she meets his crazy ex-girlfriend played by Jennifer Dark.  The three seem to get along rather well and that of course leads to a great threeway that ends in him unloading on their faces and in their mouths.

In all the movie was about an hour and 34 minutes long but still unusual to have only 4 scenes. Most movies today have 5 sex scenes in that same time period, but this was had some rather long sex so in all the movie only included the 4 scenes.

The movie ends and Meggan going on her way. thinking about her time in Malibu and moving into her own apartment which interestingly enough just so happens to have been the same location that they shot Meggan and Hanna Love Manuel.
At the very end you get a shot of Paul Thomas on the Pier in a cameo.

On a strange note, the movie credits say it was written and directed by Chuck Lords, yet most sources of information say it was directed by Paul Thomas. Since Paul Thomas made the non-sex cameo at the end of the movie that would make sense. So I did some digging and it turns out Chuck Lords is just another name Paul Thomas uses to attach his name to projects he isn’t particularly proud of.
Overall I would say if you are a fan of Meggan Mallone then this movie is a must have. She looks hot, fucks great and has two sex scenes in the movie.

This movie is available on DVD

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“‘Karissa Shannon Superstar’ is Wildly Erotic, Kinky and Our Hottest Celeb Tape Ever,” Says Vivid Head Steven Hirsch.

LOS ANGELES – (September 20, 2010) – The Vivid-Celeb imprint of Vivid Entertainment, the world ‘s leading adult film studio, will release an “extreme” sex tape starring Karissa Shannon and her TV-star boyfriend Sam Jones III entitled “Karissa Shannon Superstar” on Sept. 28th, in stores nationwide and online at www.vivid.com.

photo courtesy of vivid.com

Karissa, the beautiful blonde Playboy Playmate who became a star of the E! Networks hit series “The Girls Next Door“, is the real-life girlfriend of Sam Jones III, best known for playing Pete Ross in The CW Television Network “Smallville” series.

“This is the absolutely the most extreme celebrity sex tape ever brought to us and we’re excited to have it,” said Steven Hirsch, founder/co-chairman of Vivid.  “Even though Karissa and Sam made this for their own enjoyment, it’s shot extremely well and is as provocative as it is sexual.  Never has a girl this beautiful been this nasty…she’s completely uninhibited with Sam.”

The couple is seen enjoying sex in a moving car, their home, a hotel room in Hawaii, and more.  Later, Karissa slips into black lingerie, stockings and high heels, while Sam gets out his riding crop and spiked collar and takes control.  “Karissa Shannon Superstar” runs two hours and features a bonus disc with scenes from Vivid’s other celebrity features.

Vivid is the undisputed leader in celebrity sex tapes, famous for featuring such high profile personalities as Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian and Montana Fishburne in their most intimate and revealing moments.



(TMZ.com) Playmate Karissa Shannon is about to be semi-celebdom’s next sex tape debutante — that is if Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch gets to release the homemade XXX flick he calls “extremely erotic.”

Hirsch tells TMZ he actually laid eyes on the tape which co-stars Karissa’s boyfriend, “Smallville” actor Sam Jones III. Hirsch says it was sent to him from “a reputable third party” and that he’d “love to be able to release it.”

The XXX footage in question sounds a lot like the sex tape Karissa claims Spencer Pratt stole from her house — which, as we first reported, she’s threatening to sue him over if he doesn’t return it.

Vivid’s chief isn’t divulging who dropped the tape in his lap, but does say he’s “very impressed with the quality and content” — which sounds like executive speak for … it’s smoking hot!

But before you scour the Internet for clips — we spoke to Jones who said, “I understand that the guy from Vivid saw footage with Karissa and I in it. We have spoken to our legal team and they will be dealing with this ASAP.”

Let the XXX games begin.

New York – [Reuters] from www.abcnews.go.com – If the new “Date Night” DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch [pictured] — or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter — that figure represents a blockbuster.

The founder of Vivid Entertainment, the leading purveyor of pornographic videos, has built a business estimated to pull in annually as much as a $100 million slice of a $13 billion industry (compared to mainstream box office of $10.6 billion).

The key to thriving even as free online porn services eat away at the DVD market is being nimble enough to adapt principles familiar to the rest of the showbiz world: celebrity scandal and superhero tentpoles. Laurence Fishburne’s daughter Montana’s sex tape and “Batman: a XXX Porn Parody” — both from Vivid — are vying with each other for top-selling adult DVD of the year.

“We have done celebrities for many years but have more recently acquired more than ever before as public appetite has increased,” Hirsch told The Hollywood Reporter.

“The days of generic adult films are gone because there are many, many websites for stuff like that.”

Vivid was founded in 1984 and got a big kick from the Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee honeymoon tape “Pam & Tommy Lee: Hardcore & Uncensored,” which was first released in 1998 and became not just an icon of celebrity exposure but also is believed to have sold more copies than any other celebrity sex release with the possible exception of Paris Hilton’s. It also made Vivid the one to beat.

“It’s the one adult brand — besides Hustler maybe — that is most entrenched in people’s minds,” said Paul Fishbein, president of Adult Video News Media Network, which publishes industry trade AVN.

Since then, Vivid has aggressively positioned itself to acquire celebrity fare — and the reputation has made it a magnet for celebrities shopping tapes themselves.

While industry sales and financials don’t get tracked like box office or DVD sales in Hollywood do, Vivid gets more adult video shelf space than any of its peers and routinely sweeps the annual AVN Awards, the Oscars of the adult industry. Hirsch has been a leader in the mainstreaming of porn, emphasizing quality by shooting on film rather than video; introducing more tasteful packaging; and expanding the brand by stamping Vivid on makeup, intimate accessories, nightclubs and other products.

Hirsch’s business instincts continue to pay off. The man Forbes once dubbed “The Porn King” in May acquired and released “Kendra Exposed” a sex tape featuring Kendra Wilkinson of “The Girls Next Door” and “Kendra” reality TV fame that wasn’t originally shot for public consumption but is on track to become one of the best-selling adult DVDs of the year.

And in August, Vivid topped things off by making a TMZ-fueled splash — the celebrity site is one of Hirsch’s favorite digital buzz engines — with its release of the “Montana Fishburne” DVD. It has reached the top of the AVN sales chart, sold out of its first pressing of 25,000 DVDs at about $45 a pop — requiring a second pressing of the same number — and also could become the year’s best-seller, according to industry watchers.

“With Montana, we felt she had a famous last name and is a beautiful girl,” Hirsch said. “And it could launch her career.”

Not every celebrity tape is of interest. When you listen to Hirsch, he uses words like “quality,” “tasteful” and “looking good” in describing what he looks for. As Vivid “greenlights” acquisitions or productions of celebrity content, key filters in mind include good looks, a recognizable name and production values.

That is why Hirsch has in recent days publicly emphasized, again via TMZ, that he wants to see footage of “The Hills” star Spencer Pratt’s tape with Heidi Montag to vet how interesting it would be for Vivid.

“Only companies with deep pockets get to play this celebrity game,” said Alec Helmy, president and publisher of XBiz Premiere, an information provider and research firm focused on the adult industry.

“Vivid is the top name in this space now, and they have positioned themselves aggressively to (get a look at most content and) also get future releases.”

Getting desirable content is key as the adult business — which films or produces nearly 90 percent of its product in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and has suffered because of free Web content, sluggish DVD sales and the recession just like Hollywood. Fishbein said coming up with estimates is nearly impossible.

After all, industry players typically are privately held and famously secretive, some parts of the business are illegal and therefore hidden, and there is no tracking service a la Nielsen in mainstream media.

But the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. issued an estimate five years ago that put adult industry revenue at $12.6 billion a year. Miller said he has seen estimates from about $8 billion-$13 billion in recent years.

The fast decline in porn DVD sales, which Fishbein compares to the Napsterization of the music industry, has made revenue estimates an extra-fast-moving target. Miller estimated that adult DVD sales might have fallen as much as 25 percent since 2005.

“We have seen DVD sales decline much as Hollywood has,” said Kym Kysar, brand and product manager at Pink Visual, which distributes adult content in digital and traditional form.

“Adult video stores are closing just as the Blockbusters, Hollywood Videos and Movie Gallerys of the world are closing.”

Joe Francis, creator of the “Girls Gone Wild” series, and Hustler founder Larry Flynt even came up with the idea to ask Congress for a $5 billion porn bailout last year. (Request ignored.)

One key reason why celebrity releases might save the industry is that celebs — whether A-list or B — can broaden the potential appeal of what typically is a very niche business. And Hirsch said more women and casual fans tend to buy celebrity tapes, which generally helps them outsell other fare.

“In this day and age with TV and Internet … you feel like you know these celebrities, so it’s more exciting to see them nude,” said Jim McBride, who as CEO of MrSkin.com — which aggregates female nude pictures and clips from the worlds of film and TV — has made a business out of celebrities.

The average adult industry tape sells only several hundred to a few thousand copies but is very cheap to produce with multiples of $100,000 being considered a really high budget.

Industry observers said no one in the adult space likes talking about what they spend making celebrity content, but they tend to be more expensive than regular productions. One source said videos featuring particularly popular stars can be worth in the hundreds of thousands or even low millions in the cases of major names. For example, Vivid offered former Miss California Carrie Prejean $1 million to star in one of its movies. (She declined.)

But sales of celebrity releases also can be in the tens of thousands — multiples of more standard fare. Miller estimates that the most popular celebrity-fueled adult videos such as “Pam & Tommy Lee,” Paris Hilton’s uncensored 2004 tape (from Red Light District) and the 2007 leaked tape of Kim Kardashian and R&B singer Ray J — for which Vivid paid Kardashian $5 million in a settlement — have sold hundreds of thousands of units, the first two possibly more than 1 million.

While there are no fixed retail prices, Hirsch said the Fishburne tape generally is available for $39-$49. Using the $45 midway price tag, its first DVD run raised more than $1 million in revenue.

Vivid.com also can benefit from exciting big-name content that creates buzz as the site might attract or retain people who pay $29.95 per month for subscriptions. For reality TV stars, younger celebs and aspiring actors, Hirsch has opened new doors.

“It’s gone from moneymaking and being a taboo to a type of branding,” said one industry source. “The media and consumers love this stuff. Paris didn’t lose anything, and Kim Kardashian escalated her fame.”

Some say the blurring lines of fame also has helped such porn stars as Riley Steele (“Piranha 3D”) and Sasha Grey (“Entourage”) follow Jenna Jameson in crossing over into the mainstream.

Hirsch not only likes to buy films featuring celebrities but also gives star treatment to full-time adult performers by signing women to one-year deals with multiyear extension options to make them so-called Vivid Girls. The approach recalls the old Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and ’40s that tried to lock in longer-term relationships.

“We always felt if we invest in a girl and do the marketing and promotion, and people like her, we want people to come back to us to see more of her,” Hirsch said.

“People know that when they get one of our movies they are going to get a certain level of quality — and quality, beautiful girls.”

But Hirsch warns that comparing the sales for a Vivid Girl tape with a celebrity tape can be like comparing apples and oranges.

“People have more access to them more regularly, so (many) of their DVDs tend to sell fewer copies than the one tape of a celebrity,” he said.

Hirsch also is continuously looking to innovate and diversify his business. “We have Vivid Alt featuring girls (often with more piercings, tattoos and other things that deserve the label ‘alternative’) who are not Vivid Girls, and we do educational releases with our Vivid Ed line,” he said.

A few months ago, Hirsch added what he expects to be a major new specialty labels: a superheroes parody business.

“That will be a big opportunity and opens up new opportunities” with casual audiences, he said. “We released ‘Batman XXX: A Porn Parody’ (spoofing the 1960s TV show) in May from director Axel Braun, who is one of the best. It’s done great and is one of the best-selling titles of the year.”

Vivid instilled a sense of a production quality by, for example, hiring the original TV show’s costume designers, which observers argue helped it stand out against cheaper parody productions. The (clean) YouTube trailer for the “Batman” adult spoof has recorded more than 915,000 views. Next up is “Superman XXX: A Porn Parody,” which features Ryan Driller as Superman along such performers as Lexi Belle, Kristina Rose, Randy Spears, Evan Stone and Dale DaBone.

“As usual, I’m trying to re-create the look and feel of the source material and have some fun with it without offending the fans,” “Superman XXX” director Braun said last week. “But while the ‘Batman’ TV show was shot in studio with a relatively low budget, Richard Donner’s (1978 ‘Superman’) movie was a huge production with plenty of exteriors and groundbreaking special effects, so it will be a lot more challenging, and definitely more interesting.”

There will be more spoofs to come, including such TV shows as “Law & Order” and “The Addams Family” and movies including “Grease,” “A Clockwork Orange” and even “The Godfather.”

Playboy is now sharing the photos with you here.

Montana Fishburne was recently in the news claiming she never signed a model release for the work she did pre-Vivid with Brian Pumper.  Brian Pumper however said she’s one crazy bitch and not only did she sign, but he has photos and videos of her doing it and acknowledging that she knew what she was signing.  So in other words, she flat out lied yet again for publicity.  Big shock there.  Only this time her lie cost a guy some series legal fees.

Speaking of train wreck Montana Fishburne and her lies, do you remember her going on TMZ recently claiming her famous father cut her off and won’t have anything to do with her?  Well apparently that was a lie as well.  Her father is footing her very expensive legal bills in regard to an arrest from last year.

TMZ reported that It was Laurence who hired Montana’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, to represent her in an ongoing assault with a deadly weapon case … in an attempt to help her out and get her life back on track. Our sources say Laurence continues to foot the bill for Montana’s defense.

]]> http://lukeford.com/2010-08-25/montana-fishburne-playboy-playmate-reject/feed/ 0 http://lukeford.com/2010-08-24/jenna-jameson-brings-out-the-cat-claws/ http://lukeford.com/2010-08-24/jenna-jameson-brings-out-the-cat-claws/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:16:31 +0000 Ryan Rayzer http://lukeford.com/?p=16700 There was a story today in the Huffington Post about celebrity sex tapes and quotes Jenna Jameson, who calls out Heidi Montag for her fake crying about her sex tape.

Jenna Jameson: Celebrities LIE About Sex Tape Victimization – Heidi Montag has stopped crying over her sex tape long enough to talk business with Vivid Entertainment and stands to cash in big. Porn veteran Jenna Jameson says she never bought Heidi’s victim act.

“Why do people do porno tapes, sell them, make boatloads of money, then LIE about being victimized. I know one girl who sold her tape herself,” Jenna tweeted on Tuesday.

“@SOFTBLUSHcom I know one of the girls that acts so prim and proper and sold her tape to get famous. The others I just speculate,” she continued. “I own up to my porn, I don’t cry and say my boyfriend stole it.”

Kim Kardashian has called her sex tape “humiliating” even though she came away from it with a $5 million settlement. Kendra Wilkinson gave teary television interviews talking about her “extremely embarrassing” sex tape after it earned her millions. Danielle Staub said her sex tape was “coming around for a reason,” try as she might to stop it.

Montana Fishburne, for her part, has never been less than upfront about her hopes for her sex tape to bring her riches and fame.

“I’ve watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape,” she said.

Popular TV shows and classic movies to get the XXX treatment in 2011

LOS ANGELES – (August 23, 2010) – Axel Braun, arguably the busiest director in the adult entertainment industry, has announced a slate of new movies to be distributed exclusively by Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film studio.

On top of the already announced Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody, the 2011 lineup includes spoofs of the popular TV shows Law & Order, Starsky & Hutch, and The Addams Family, as well as classic movies like Grease, Clockwork Orange and The Godfather.

“I’ve selected TV shows and movies that have not only been popular favorites, but in which I have a real emotional investment”, said Braun.  “It makes working on these projects incredibly exciting for me and translates into products that are true labors of love”.

Braun’s Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, also distributed by Vivid, has been at the top of the charts all summer long, and has already become the best-selling adult title of the year.

“We’re already getting strong retail interest in Axel’s upcoming Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody, which we announced last month”, said Steven Hirsch, founder/co-chairman of Vivid.  “There is no doubt this new slate of high-quality movies will generate tremendous excitement in the marketplace for us.”

LOS ANGELES — (August 18, 2010) – Vivid Entertainment will release Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex 2 on Monday, August 23rd, meeting strong consumer demand for the second installment in the series from the AVN Award winning director.

Photo courtesy of vivid.com

The movie is based entirely on the real-life fantasies of an all-star cast of female performers, running the gamut from dominance to submission.  Through deeply personal interviews, the stars reveal their personal preferences for rough sex, why they love it, how they establish trust with their partners, and what they need to feel safe as they play on the edge.  The accompanying scenes in Rough Sex 2, part documentary and part erotic vignette, challenge conventional wisdom about the fantasy lives of women.

“In a politically correct world, it’s nice to see that director Tristan Taormino continues to push the envelope,” said Ben Atrophis of AVN in his AAAA1/2 review of the movie.  “In the sequel to the phenomenally successful Rough Sex she finds girls who have their own definitions of what makes ‘rough sex’ and they control the scenes by acting out their fantasies.  And a bunch of these babes are quite kinky.”

Sharing their personal fantasies in Rough Sex 2 are Claire Adams, Chayse Evans, April Flores, Sinnamon Love, Adrianna Nicole, Dylan Ryan, Bobbi Starr and Madison Young. Male performers in the movie include Mark Davis, James Deen, Shane Diesel, Richard Mann, Nathan Menace and Orpheus Black.

The performers create the scenes, choose their partners and control what happens.  Mistress Claire takes her pet April on an unforgettable ride; Bobbi tastes total submission at the back of her throat; Pony girl Madison gets trained; Chayse and Mark double team slave Adrianna; Madison bakes a cake for her Mistress with interesting results; Sinnamon serves her Master (and his friends) at a poker game. Each woman shares her most intimate desires, tests her own boundaries, and rides the seductive line between pleasure and pain.

“This is female sexuality at its most extreme: raw, rough, and real,” director Taormino says.  “You’ll see food fetish play, face-sitting, strap-on sex, pony play, flogging, training, clothespins, forced orgasms, spreader bars, bondage, wrestling, slapping, spanking, dominance and submission, service, punishment, knife play, hot wax, and face-slapping. Rough Sex 2 is a lot kinkier than Rough Sex 1.  It explores some of the most alluring and taboo elements of BDSM. I think my fans will love it!”

Vivid sales director Howard Levine said: “Rough Sex has done really well for us, and Tristan has upped the ante in this second installment. I know it’s going to be really popular with retailers.”

The movie was shot in high definition and the DVD includes chapter search, DVD-ROM compatible, no regional coding plus a behind the scenes featurette on choking & safety.

Check out the original Rough Sex HERE

From TMZ – Montana Fishburne officially has plenty more opportunities to piss off her father — we’re told her first XXX movie was such a hit … the porn company that shot it just offered her a multi-picture deal.

Vivid Entertainment prez Steve Hirsch tells TMZ, the first shipment of Montana’s porn sold out across the country — more than 25,000 copies in total — and we’re told even more DVDs were placed on backorder.

According to Steve, Vivid has officially offered Laurence Fishburne’s 19-year-old daughter — aka “Chippy D” — a multi-picture deal to cash in on all the success … although it’s not clear how many adult flicks that actually entails.

As we first reported, Laurence’s close friends offered to buy up every last copy of Montana’s porno for $1 million — but by then it was too late … the DVDs had already been sent out.

No word yet if Montana will take Vivid up on their new offer.

WHO: Savanna Samson, multi-award-winning adult superstar and winemaker extraordinaire, will host a party for her new big budget Vivid movie, “The Devil in Miss Jones The Resurrection.” She also will introduce Sogno Tre, her newest Savanna Samson Wine.

WHAT: The new movie is based on the adult industry’s greatest title as re-imagined and updated by director Paul Thomas. Speaking of her role as the Devil, Savanna says, “I waited a long time to play this juicy role and I’m thrilled that fans are loving it.”

Savanna’s first two wines received high ratings from none other than noted wine critic Robert M. Parker.

WHERE:  Rick’s Cabaret-NYC, 50 W. 33rd St. between Fifth Avenue and Broadway.

WHEN: Savanna’s party is from 6-8pm on Wed., August 18th and is open to the public.  There will be an open bar from 6-7pm.

MEDIA CONTACT: Jackie@vivid.com or 800-762-4761.  RSVP by noon on Aug. 18th please.