No idea on why everyone is jumping ship. But Red Light District came out with a bang. They had some of the best all fuck, no nonsense titles, making lots of great porn, (maybe too much).

I really have no idea who is left there. It's all changed since '03, when I first met all those guys who were there at the time.

- -B -I -G -m -i -k -e, here and there, over and out! - -

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In addition to the Films division, RLD released two experimental Manuel Ferrara films (i]Mind Fuck and Katsumi's Dirty Deeds ) and stepped in to become the new distributor for Ninn Worx. They even hired a sales person away from Vivid to handle the Ninn account. The actual Artcore films were done by Anabolic, but these particular moves by RLD were in the same vain.

However, at this point with RLD co-founders Dion Giarrusso and Vince Vouyer behind new companies, PXP co-founder Jewel De'Nyle a free agent, and various notable directors long gone it seems diversification has been scaled back in favor of a return to basics approach. Fitting in with current industry trends, the simple model is again streamlined product released through the seperate all-sex labels PXP, RLD, and the forthcoming Candy Shop, all of which is actually centralized. Also judging from what David Joseph said during the Jake Malone drama, it's likely that a philosophical change in dealing with directors has taken place, that is unless Del Toro, Cuba, and the other new guys are getting product ownership like their predecessors.

Edited by - -Kelly- on 6/21/2006 2:48:20 AM

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anyway I'd prefere that PXP/RLD solve their problems whatever thay are

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"The time has come for someone to put his foot down....and that foot is me."

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I look forward to new talents and new elements shown up in the future.

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"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

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here are some ideas :

g/g spit fetish video - this is a growing fetish
g/g kissing fetish video
g/g/b blowjob video - where the girls share tons of spit while blowing the guy ...and they concentrate on each other and the cock without looking at the camera. They can french kiss alot and spit into mouths alot while blowing the guy ...then when the guy cums , they can swap many times then have an EXTENDED cum kissing sequence WITHOUT looking at the camera so that they are just into each other.

here are some other ideas :

- reduce the camera movement
- have the girls dress a little more natural in some vids
- have the girls perform very nasty ( as always) but reduce the amount of yelling and swearing every 2 seconds. The swearing may be hot but they overdo it and it just gets annoying.
- change your formats from scene to scene and movie to movie. We all know that many vids and scenes are completely identical...try changing the order of events a little.

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However, here's something that's not just mere rumor as it comes with confirmation from David Joseph:

Production Shutdown At Red Light District

I (Luke Ford) email owner David Joseph: "Just hearing stuff such as a production shutdown."

He replies: "Yes, we are 6 month ahead. That’s all that is going on and nothing else."

Gene Ross reports that RLD employees have been asked to take a paycut.

David replies: "Call any of them yourself, it is absolutely not true."

Edited by - -Kelly- on 6/22/2006 2:27:33 PM

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"The time has come for someone to put his foot down....and that foot is me."

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He replies: "Yes, we are 6 month ahead. That’s all that is going on and nothing else."

[/quote]6 months ahead, lets do the math. 8 titles per company=16 per month. 6 x 16 = 96 movies. thats a lot of fucking scenes to have shot in 6-8 months. lates, Von S.

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I do think the directors should own their product and be able to shop them around to different distributors but they should also have to cover all of their own production costs, payroll, etc. with no funding from the distributor. I don't know the details of the RLD/PXP production funding model but I suspect that RLD/PXP was covering most of the production costs and amortizing them into X pieces of product being shipped with no ownership compensation for directors until that X level was reached.

Also consider Luke Ford's recent sales stats for new releases typically selling 700 - 1000 pieces. It's really hard to recoup production costs at that level. So the directors never see residuals for their movies and the company is thrilled to simply cover the production costs on these initial 700 - 1000 units.

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