I love star based comps. Get a bunch of scenes from your fav girl all on one disc. In this day an age where the economy isn't all that good I see a lot of comps but very few are star based. I wonder why studios like 3rd Degree, Zero Tolerance, Elegant Angel, Evil Angel don't release comps of some of the more popular girls. They cost very little, the scenes are already shot. They release comps but none are all of one girl. Girls like Kristina Rose, Tori Black, Jenna Haze etc.
If they sold comps like that, you'd buy 1 dvd instead of 3+ dvd's. Evasives Angles is the only studio (afaik) to do it right, with their Big Butt All Stars series; most of them are 2-disc sets and even includes the various BTS bits from the various original discs.
They exist, but the comps not based around one star muddy the waters quite a bit. I'm thinking especially how Digital Sin/New Sensations' I Love comp series started as always being about one or two girls (I think) but they started having installments based around cheerleaders, schoolgirls, blondes, brunettes, Asians, etc. I think that dilutes the brand of the series. I believe Kickass's Kickass Chicks series is the same way. Private has the Private Story of and Private Life of series. One series is single disc, the other is double disc. And I know that Jules Jordan, Manuel Ferrara, and Belladonna have released the occasional comp about performers that they especially love hiring. Comps based on one performer sometimes will have a new scene or two.
In my opinion, this is one the most irritating side effects of gonzo. There are so many different studios, you can't get comps of just one girl anymore. As Jon said, there are some like New Sensations I Love... series, of which I own several volumes, but that's about it. These days your best option is to buy scenes online and make your own comp. A sort of porn mixed tape, if you will. Jenna Haze's next movie is being released July 22, called Just Jenna. It features Ms. Haze in every scene, of which some are new and some are from her website but have been been released on DVD before. This one is definitely on my Must Buy list.
Another reason I love JAV (japanese Adult Videos) The movies are pretty much all based around the starlett and they are in every scene, not to mention the seemingly endless supply of gorgeous models who do it all
Jenna doesn't like to hear her next movie being called a comp, as 4 scenes really are brand new, and the other scenes have never been on DVD before, even if they have already been on her website for some time. I don't see how gonzo has anything to do with how compilations are released. In my experience, one of the worst offenders for creating multiple cheap comps with 4 HOURS! 20 SCENES! displayed prominently on the cover is Vivid. Wicked is better on that account simply for their not creating as many of those.
^^^ What I meant was that with all the girls shooting for several different companies, you can't have a complilation movie centered around just one girl. The star based comps are like a highlight reel of all of that perticular girl's best scenes. The problem is those scenes are split up amongst Elegant Angel, Jules Jordan, Evil Angel, Zero Tolerance, and other companies so you can't get them all on the same DVD. That's one of the silver linings with contract girls is all of their work is for one company. For example, if want a DVD featuring nothing but Jessica Drake, I can buy Jessica Tonight from Wicked because all her scenes are owned by one studio. Please believe that when I refer to Jenna's new movie as a comp I mean that in the best way possible. It's a star based comp featuring 100% new scenes and some older scenes that will be new to most people. It also qualifies as comp because of its variety of scenes, not just their freshness. It has Solo, B/G, Anal, Swallowing and a lot more! The term comp has a negative connotation in the adult industry due to a lot companies trying to up their profit margin by reselling old material. Many of them are junk and not worth the money. The star based comps however, are more like Greatest Hits collections and are increasingly hard to come by due to the freelance contract style of hiring used by gonzo companies, who dominate the market these days.
Elegant Angel, Zero Tolerance, 3rd Degree all have enough scenes from each girl to release a comp filled with only one girl's scenes. Red Light District just released a Tori Black disc and have a Kristina Rose discs set for the end of the month. Elegant Angel tends to make a whole movie with brand new scenes based on one girl which is great like the Tori Black Pretty Filthy, EVAlutionary, the Squirtwoman and Buttwoman series. However, they do have enough scenes from all these girls shot in past series to make comps of each girl as well. I won't buy a disc if there's only one scene with a girl I like. But I'll buy the comp for sure, it's an automatic buy for me. There just aren't enough of them. Zero Tolerance annoys me somewhat. I really dig Eva Angelina. She's done enough scenes for them to release a comp of hers but what did ZT do? they release a Eva Angelina/Teagan comp. WTF is that? I never understood splitting a comp between two girls, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Evil Angel has done that in the past as well.
Sorry but you are wrong.. a compilation is a movie compiled of scenes that were featured and released in a bunch of other dvds first. It has nothing to do with "a variety of scenes and sexual acts".
Vivid is pretty much the only studio I know that does this. The other studios seem to base their comps on sex acts as opposed to specific porn stars. I don't know why they do this because over the years I have found star based comps to be very profitable. I still to this day sell a ton of them, even with the old school girls like Christy Canyon, Racquel Darrian and Chasey Lain. Vivid is the best studio for all star comps. Oddly where Vivid fails greatly is the star specific movie. If they release a movie featuring a specific star, she typically will be in only 1 or 2 scenes in that movie. That's always bothered me. They have as of late gotten much better about this like with Lia's First Time for example is a movie very specifically about porn star Lia. There are 7 scenes in all if you count the DVD bonus scene. Of those 7 scenes Lia is in 3 of them, the first scene which is solo (her only) and two more lesbian scenes. Anywho, I don't know why studios tend to focus on sex acts vs the girl. I am working with the company who now owns the old Torrid Entertainment line (the Taylor Rain line) and they are going to do some comps of those and I promise they will be porn star specific. :)
^True, Vivid does, or used to, release lots of comps based on girls. More than necessary, in fact. I mean, they'd put out several Briana Banks comps or several Cassidey comps, and some scenes would be on every comp! Instead of putting out volume 1, volume 2, etc., and making sure no one Briana Banks scene was on two different Briana Banks compilations, they'd create comps seemingly willy-nilly. So material that could have been compiled on two discs would be stretched over three, etc. I'm pretty sure the star-based comps from Private, KickAss, New Sensations/Digital Sin, Manuel, Belladonna, Jules, etc. would never do that. If they thought a girl deserved a second comp of her scenes for them, the second comp would all be scenes that weren't on the first one.
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Posted - Jul 18 2010 : 5:56AM
That used to be the case, but the Private Life series is nowadays single DVD as well, released over several volumes. This is why I don't buy them anymore, not as good value as the old ones...
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Posted - Nov 14 2010 : 1:02PM
At least let the girl be in every scene. They lose sales if only 1 scene is interesting.
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Posted - Nov 15 2010 : 4:22PM
Red Light District has been going through their classic catalog with "The Girls of The Red Light District" featuring the likes of Courtney Cummz, Sasha Grey, Kristina Rose and others. I would like to see Platinum X do the same, lot of that stuff is now hard to find... and it was SOOO FILTHY!!!!
Naughty America/Pure Play appears to be starting to do this. I just bought a comp. from them with Brianna Love. I just saw another one with someone else by them, I think on the main page of this site. They do exist out there with a few select companies. Unfortunately unless a performer works a lot with the same company, the chances are slimmer for them.