Home Media Magazine - December 16-22, 2007 - (Page 8)

ELECTRONIC DELIVERY www.homemediamagazine.com nated by users. “We’ve decided to take a stand,” Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch told The Los Angeles Times. “We will go after all the free sites.” The adult entertainment industry, similarly to mainstream Hollywood, is experiencing a slowdown in DVD sales as increased distribution occurs via the Internet. Unlike Hollywood content, however, 30-second and longer video clips offered online often suffice among adult video consumers. With increased offerings of teaser and pirated clips, a sizable percentage of the market is at stake, experts say. Last year when Vivid became one of the first content holders to allow burning of its material to blank DVDs, Richard Dougherty, media analyst with the Envisioneering Group, said adult entertainment had become a medium more about video clips than feature-length movies. “There are some adult entertainment movies you might not miss 30 seconds of,” Dougherty said. Alleged pirated Vivid titles include Mission Erotica, Hawaiian Blast, Ginger on the Rocks and clips featuring socialite Kim Kardashian, daughter of late O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian. Vivid recently paid Kardashian $5 million for the DVD and electronic distribution rights to her personal sex tapes. An AEBN representative declined to comment. Vivid Sues Clip Site PornoTube By Erik Gruenwedel LEGAL Vivid Entertainment LLC, a major producer and distributor of adult DVDs and streamed content, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Charlotte, N.C.based AEBN Inc., and its user-generated site, PornoTube. The suit, filed Dec. 6 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, requests a jury trial, permanent injunction and statutory damages of $150,000 per pirated video clip, or at least $4.5 million. The action, supposedly the first of its kind in adult entertainment, mirrors legal action taken earlier this year by Viacom Inc., which filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against search behemoth Google Inc., and its subsidiary YouTube. At issue are the rights of copyright holders and the security steps taken by third-party Web sites to prevent pirated content from being dissemi- Ofﬁcial Selection 2007 Sundance Film Festival a comedy about the other woman – mom! two-time academy award nominee* brenda blethyn! ® – Ruthe Stein, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “Funny and poignant, with a tour-de-force performance by Brenda Blethyn.” – Claudia Puig, USA TODAY BRIEFS I CINEMAELECTRIC TO EXPAND MOBILE CHANNELS CinemaElectric Inc. inked a deal with mobile entertainment provider mywaves to expand ad-supported distribution of CinemaElectric’s mobile-based content on mobile devices. Programming from Los Angeles-based CinemaElectric distributed through the deal will include “Portable Hollywood,” which provides Hollywood news and events, as well as “Smashbrain,” which features men’s lifestyle content, and Web comedy. “This agreement signiﬁcantly broadens our reach and capabilities in the mobile advertising space,” said Ken Wilmer, EVP of marketing and business at CinemaElectric. “We’re excited to be partnering with mywaves to bring CinemaElectric programming to a new set of active viewers worldwide.” The mywaves service allows content owners to send information to mobile carriers regardless of service provider. More than 100,000 channels are available. – Billy Gil “Brenda Blethyn gives a standout performance. This is whip-smart comedy.” – Caroline Leavitt, MORE MAGAZINE “Nothing less than exhilarating….Fresh and heartbreakingly real.” – Stephen Schaefer, BOSTON HERALD street date: february 12 order due date: january 8 $ Widescreen DVD [16x9 1.85:1]: #1000027016 105 Mins. $ 27.95 SRP 19 95 I CABLE BOWS PENTHOUSE VOD Adult brand Penthouse for the ﬁrst time is available on major cable in both video-on-demand and high-deﬁnition. Distributed by Boulder, Colo.-based New Frontier Media, Penthouse TV VOD and Penthouse TV HD VOD are available to 9 million and 2 million cable homes, respectively. – Erik Gruenwedel MAP WARNERINDEPENDENTPI WARNER INDEPENDENT PICTURES AND FILM FINANCE CORPORATION AUSTRALIA PRESENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH GOALPOST FILM AND SHAFTESBURY FILMS AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES FILM AND TELEVISION OFFICE AND SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIES AN RB FILMS PRODUCTION BRENDA BLETHYN “INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS” KHAN CHITTENDEN EMMA BOOTH RICHARD WILSON FRANKIE J. HOLDEN REBECCA GIBNEY COSTUME FILM DIRECTOR OF DESIGNER COMPOSER PHILIP QUAST KATIE WALL AND RUSSELL DYKSTRA AS SHANE DESIGNER EMILY SERESIN EDITOR SCOTT GRAY PRODUCTION NELL HANSON PHOTOGRAPHY MARK WAREHAM, A.C.S.ORIGINAL SCORE MARTIN ARMIGER EXECUTIVE WRITTEN PRODUCED DIRECTED PRODUCERS SCOTT GARVIE BEN GRANT CASS O’CONNER TRISTAN WHALLEY ANTONIO ZECCOLA BY KEITH THOMPSON BY ROSEMARY BLIGHT BY CHERIE NOWLAN introducingthedwights.com warnervideo.com Sexual Content and Language Bonus Material/Trailer Not Rated SDH 105 Mins. ENGLISH: Dolby Surround 5.1 “Academy Award®” Is the Registered Trademark and Service Mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. *Best Actress for Secrets & Lies (1996) and Best Supporting Actress for Little Voice (1998). © 2007 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved. 8 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://introducingthedwights.com http://warnervideo.com http://whvdirect.com

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