LAS VEGAS — Taylor Nicole has released a new clip with Puerto Rock, Jack Hughman, Jason Sarcinelli, Wade Wolf, Big Dan and Nacho Vegas.
The scene is “a gangbang that is fit for a king and created by a porn princess,” said a rep.
“I want more,” said Nicole. “And what better way to express that than with a good, old-fashioned gangbang where I am getting my pussy and mouth stretched in all the best ways.”
Next, on Oct. 20, Bang will debut a behind-the-scenes segment featuring Dangler on YouTube with Dan and Ryan Pownall of “Pillowtalk.”
Then, Dangler will star in the latest from the studio’s “Surprise” series on Oct. 23.
“I’m honored to be the ‘B! Babe of the Month’ for October and love that it’s a month-long celebration,” said Dangler. “I can’t wait for my second scene and the BTS to come out. You guys will love it.”
TORONTO — Naked News anchor Eila Adams has announced a fall tour of appearances.
On Oct. 19, Adams will attend the Sex Trade Show, in Toronto, where she will conduct Naked News interviews.
Next, she will appear at the Venus Berlin trade show for Naked News, Cam4 and Tempted, from Oct. 24-27.
In November, she will travel to Los Angeles for exclusive photoshoots, brand promotions and interviews with various media outlets.
“This tour is going to be an amazing opportunity to connect with fans, media and industry insiders around the globe,” said Adams. “From the pink carpet in Berlin to the streets of Los Angeles, I look forward to bringing viewers all the exciting action from these incredible events.”
TORONTO — CAM4 has appointed industry veteran and XBIZ Exec Award winner Andra Chirnogeanu as its new director of business development.
Chirnogeanu joins the company after two years at Stripchat as head of business communication and with over a decade of industry experience spanning marketing, public relations, and franchise development for a live cam studio, as well as event planning and brand ambassadorship.
“As a powerhouse within the adult entertainment industry, Chirnogeanu brings a wealth of experience, strategic insight, and a proven track record of success to CAM4 and the entire webcam community,” said a rep. “Her expertise and deep understanding of the industry make her the perfect fit to lead CAM4’s communications strategies, driving growth across CAM4 markets, success opportunities for creators, and aligning visionary leadership with innovative technology.”
In her new role, Chirnogeanu will oversee CAM4’s content strategy, manage its regional teams across North America, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and supervise broadcaster recruitment and retention programs.
“This is an exciting time to be joining CAM4,” Chirnogeanu enthused. “With the platform’s impressive talent pool and forward-thinking approach, we have the opportunity to redefine and help creators on a global scale. I’m looking forward to forging new market opportunities and elevating a creator’s brand success.”
Added Content Development Manager Ashley Jacobs, “We are excited to have Andra join our team. Her expertise in global creator marketing and communications, combined with her ability to understand both the regional nuances and broader trends in the industry, make her a major asset.”
LOS ANGELES — Adult Time debuted its award-season feature “Birth” — directed by Bree Mills and starring Casey Calvert, Seth Gamble and Leana Lovings — with a red-carpet premiere on Saturday night at the Bourbon Room in the heart of Hollywood.
The event featured the first public unveiling of a non-explicit cut of the horror thriller. Presenting such specially edited versions has become a tradition for award-winning director Mills, who previously gave the same treatment to her features “Teenage Lesbian” and “Perspective.”
The premiere included a star-studded red carpet inside the Bourbon Room, which features a bar, a large nightclub space with table service, a full stage and film-screening capabilities. The trendy Hollywood venue is decorated with classic film and music memorabilia, which provided a suitable backdrop to a catered buffet and cocktails, enjoyed in a relaxed atmosphere by cast, crew and the invitation-only industry crowd.
The screening was the first time that the stars, production crew — including Pig Machine’s Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas, which co-produced the title with Mills — and guests were able to watch “Birth.”
It would give too much away to spell out if “Birth” is a horror movie or a suspense thriller. The story is told from the point of view of Calvert’s character, placing it in the psychological narrative tradition of Hitchcock’s “woman in peril” stories as well as Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion” and “Rosemary’s Baby.” The subgenre those films spawned, featuring women seemingly losing their minds, is carefully chronicled by Kier-La Janisse in her book “House of Psychotic Women.” Mills has also mentioned as an influence more recent A24 cult classics like Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.”
Calvert gives her career-best performance yet, as a woman first trying to get pregnant and then going through her whole pregnancy while she begins harboring suspicions about her distant, manipulative husband, played by a pitch-perfect Gamble. Lovings enters the story halfway through the feature as a religiously devout doula, providing a heightened dose of eeriness around Calvert’s character and her reproductive ordeals. Although a relative newcomer compared to her co-stars, Lovings holds her own opposite two of the industry’s most respected acting talents.
Ultimately, however, it’s Calvert’s show. She transforms not just psychologically but physically, aided by a Hollywood-quality prosthetic belly, its steady growth paralleling her suspicions and mental deterioration. Calvert gives a nuanced, empathetic performance that avoids clichés and also bears witness to the careful collaboration between Mills and her actors, all of whom improvised their dialogue based on the director’s scene prompts.
Mills told XBIZ that it was a real thrill to screen “Birth” in a theater setting for all her collaborators and industry friends.
“I love to be transgressive,” she explained. “I like to evoke emotion, so it was really fun to watch the movie open with sex moments, which always instigate a kind of nervous laughter, and having it go from laughter to awkward laughter, to groans, to silence, to people going, ‘Oh God, no!’ So I felt like I took people on a roller coaster where they thought they were going to get something, but then it started to get increasingly weirder and darker and more fucked up. That was a joy to watch!”
Techniques like the improvised dialogue, Mills added, were possible because of the work she and the actors did beforehand to help each performer get into the mindset of their character.
“We all worked a lot together in pre production,” she elaborated. “I met with all of them, but I intentionally met with Casey separately, Seth separately, Casey and Seth together, Seth and Leana together — but never Casey and Leana together. We spent a lot of time talking about the truth behind the story, and who these people were. I also had them do all the styling themselves as part of their character prep. By the time we started filming, they knew who they were for the next two weeks. The proof is in the performances.”
In particular, Mills said, her goal was to give Calvert “that was just going to blow everybody’s minds.”
Calvert confirmed to XBIZ that this was the first time she had seen the final result of their hard work.
“Bree offered to show it to me, but I decided not to watch it before the screening,” she said. But it didn’t feel totally surprising, because I lived the story while we were shooting it. Watching it with a group of my friends and see what people reacted to was very fun. And people overreacting when she pulled out an enormous jar of Vaseline was amazing! I did actually put so much Vaseline inside of me, it was awful,” she laughed.
Calvert also enthused about her co-stars.
“Seth is amazing and so incredibly talented, and it was wonderful working with Leanna,” she said. “She’s absolutely perfect for this role. She did so much research into the things that she needed to say to be in character. It was incredibly impressive and I think it shows in the film. There was a lot of stuff that her and I did, little subtle things, to try to be opposites from each other. A lot of work went into that.”
For Calvert, the scenes in which her character confronts Gamble’s and their emotions flare up were special, both on set and on the screen.
“Seth and I really get into it,” she said about her long-time colleague and friend. “We did a lot of workshopping. We spent a lot of time working on the dialog for those things and dialing it. That was an incredibly enjoyable process.”
Gamble told XBIZ that he was proud of how he “got the point across of how big of a piece of shit” his character was.
“It was a very difficult experience to go through, and I had to do a lot of self-care afterward,” he shared. “But I’m really proud of what we did. Bree pulled off a great movie and Casey was absolutely incredible. I do believe it’s the performance of her career.”
The veteran performer added that he has been working for Mills since she started directing, and has seen a clear evolution leading to “Birth.”
“By now, she knows exactly what she wants,” Gamble offered. “She knew the story she wanted to tell, and she helped all of us bring out very challenging roles in each other throughout. The road we all traveled together is really amazing.”
Lovings told XBIZ that she relished playing someone who was despicable but did not see herself as the villain.
“She sees everything that she is doing as justified,” Lovings reflected. “She thinks everything is destined to be, so it’s woman pitted against woman. It’s very sad. I really took the time to develop the character, and I wasn’t allowed to meet with Casey until after they had filmed specific scenes so that we would have as much tension as possible when we were finally in front of the camera.”
Lovings called sharing the screen with Calvert and Gamble “incredibly humbling.”
“I feel very honored to have had the opportunity to act alongside them, to learn alongside them, to share this experience with them,” she said.
For Lovings, “Birth” is further proof that Mills is a one-of-a-kind creative talent.
“She is such a fantastic representation of what porn can be,” Lovings concluded. “Her ideas are so wild and fantastic, and it’s so wonderful to be a part of her creation.”
To watch the explicit version of “Birth,” visit AdultTime.com.
LOS ANGELES — Grooby has released its latest title, “Trans Starlets #18.”
Directed by Radius Dark, the release stars Antonella Morena, Eryn Everly, Haven Rose, Livi Doll and Riley Ivy. It also features Chris Epic and Pierce Paris.
“Our ‘Trans Starlet’ series is one of our most popular,” said Grooby CEO Steven Grooby. “Grooby is known for its ability to find the biggest stars in our industry at the start of their careers, and this series highlights some of the brightest new talent to date.”
LAS VEGAS — Sofie Marie is profiled in an 11-page article in ASN Lifestyle Magazine’s September issue.
The article, “Sofie Marie: Porn Star. Entrepreneur. Swinger.,” features a photo spread and an interview in which Marie discusses her journey in adult, meeting her husband, getting into the lifestyle, her love of micro bikinis and founding the Yummy Girl network, among other topics.
“She is very easy on the eyes,” MrFlourish said of Kovachenko. “She’s a beautiful woman, works hard, is low-key and has a good sense of humor. It was a good scene that is over 35 minutes long.”
Kovachenko enthused about the shoot.
“I loved working directly with MrFlourish, as I wanted to be one of the few girls he actually performed with,” she said. “It was a very passionate scene and it was so good the first day that when I came back the next day to do some extra work, I asked him if we could add more sex on to our scene. It was hot.”
Next, Venus Rising guests on the “MrFlourish Podcast.”
In the episode, titled “The Morning After with Guest Venus Rising,” Rising discusses the differences between content creators and adult stars, the drive for quality content and the pros and cons of working with production companies versus self-produced collaborations, among other topics.
Rising enthused about the appearance.
“I had such an amazing interview with MrFlourish,” she said. “He not only knows the business of the adult industry, but he has well established his professionalism in crafting a podcast that both serves not only as a source of education, but entertainment as well. I thoroughly enjoyed his line of questioning and it was an honor to be a guest on his platform.”
MIAMI — Mia Martinez and Lillith Morningstar star in the latest scene from FMN.Network, titled “Double Oiled Booties.”
In the scene, “the duo enjoys a sunny day by the pool, oiling up their round, curvy booties and teasing each other in tiny bikinis,” said a rep. “Their playful chemistry keeps things steamy from start to finish.”
LOS ANGELES — CalExotics has launched its annual Halloween retail display contest.
“Create a monstrous display featuring CalExotics products for your chance to win,” said a rep.
To enter the contest, retailers must create a Halloween display using CalExotics products and email photos of the display to marketing@calexotics.com by Monday, Oct. 21; bonus points will be awarded if the retailer uses new products from July of this year.
The grand prize winner will receive a $500 gift card, with second place receiving $250 and five “best in show” winners receiving $100.
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