| • Hard Times for the Porn Industry?
Feb. 07, 2007 - Contrary to the popular maxim, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there. Like the two big stories that emerged from the Adult Entertainment Expo in Sin City last month: 1) the adult film industry is large enough to potentially be the deciding factor in the battle for format dominance between Blu-ray and High Definition (HD)-DVD, and 2) the adult film industry may be in its worst sales slump in recent memory. Taken together, the two just don't add up. The reason may well lie in the lack of confirmable information about the porn industry's true size. These numbers-specifically that the sales and rental of pornographic videos and DVDs are a $3.6 billion industry-have been repeated so often in industry and mainstream news outlets that they have acquired the patina of fact.
Candace Hall; Musician, Model
Where She's From: Gorgeous musician and model, Candace Hall, a Pisces, was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fl. "I went to Andrew Jackson, and I started working on my music a year after I graduated," she tells The Black Star News. "I consider my modeling career at a beginning point because I've only been doing it for almost a year. I'm trying to balance my music and modeling at the same time. As for modeling, I started the middle of last year and I'm already getting gigs."Where She's At: Candace says she now has a better understanding of the music industry thanks to her entertainment lawyer. "He's getting ready to shop my music to the different record companies," she adds.Candace has landed a part on a local variety TV show, MTV Rock music video, and some fashion shows. "Knowledge is power, and every girl who wants to be in the entertainment business should educate themselves on the industry a little more.
Fight on for pay-per-view crown
NEW YORK -- In the tough business of putting on pay-per-view events, Ultimate Fighting Championship is no longer getting counted out. The upstart company that specializes in mixed martial arts matched the once-dominant World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. in pay-per-view revenues during 2006 and surpassed boxing-titan HBO. The three companies make up the bulk of the pay-per-view business. "It was a killer year," UFC president Dana White said. .
Sun Visor Theater: Watch Movies While You Avoid the Cops
Swap out your car's sun visor for the Sun Visor Theater, and suddenly you have yourself an entertainment center in your passenger's face. Too bad you'll have the highway patrol in your face as soon as they catch you with this multimedia center that's easily visible from the driver's seat, against the law in most states. If you don't mind risking a moving violation, this is loaded with features. It has a DVD player that can also handle CDs and MP3s, an SD card reader for your fave media, a USB port for your laptop, a remote control and a TV receiver built in. All that displays on a 7-inch LCD 16:9 widescreen display that also has touchscreen capability. Too bad the audio transmits to your car radio via FM, probably resulting in noisy and static-y sound. A questionable value for $299.
New Spider-Man Animated Series to Premiere on Kids’ WB! in 2008
The Amazing Spider-Man, from Sony Pictures Televisions Culver Entertainment, is scheduled to premiere on Kids' WB! on The CW in the early part of 2008. Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, The Batman) will serve as supervising producer and Victor Cook (Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) will be the producer and supervising director. Riding the crest of Sony's anticipated summer blockbuster Spider-Man 3, the new animated series picks up at the beginning of the superheros journey as a not-so-typical 16-year-old entering his junior year of high school. After having spent the summer battling common criminals with his new-found powers, Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity while dealing with the multileveled pressures of teenage life at home and school and combating super-villains in the real world.
XM and Knitting Factory Entertainment Live Music Series to Debut ...
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM, the nation's leading satellite radio service, in collaboration with Knitting Factory Entertainment (KFE), the leading authority on live emerging music, today announced the alternative music performance series "Live From The Knitting Factory on XMU" will premiere on March 2. Co-created and co-produced by KFE and XMU, XM's indie/college music channel (XM 43), the weekly concert series will feature performances from both up-and-coming and established alternative bands recorded at Knitting Factory clubs in New York and Los Angeles. Each "Live From The Knitting Factory on XMU" performance will capture the spontaneity and eclectic energy that has been the signature of Knitting Factory concerts, while spotlighting emerging artists across multiple genres.
Paramount launches DVD premiere unit
FEB. 28 | Paramount Pictures named former Universal Studios exec Louis Feola president of a new production division that will create direct-to-video product based on Paramount's library films, the company said today. Feola held a similar role at Universal, where he worked for 26 years before leaving in 2004. In his most recent role at Universal, Feola headed Universal Home Entertainment Productions, where he led the unit to create successful video spin-offs of The Land Before Time, Bring It On and American Pie. He also oversaw the studio's other video and TV production divisions: Universal Pictures Visual Programming and Universal Cartoon Studios. Paramount's yet-to-be named division will develop and produce sequels, prequels and remakes based on library films from Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, DreamWorks, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies.
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