Toshiba announced in a press conference today that they would be dropping the HD-DVD format, thus ending the High Def format war. Sony’s format, Blue-Ray, appears to have won. The mainstream media had predicted that the adult industry would determine the winner in the format war, much like adult had with Beta and VHS. Several [...]

Adult performer Larin Lane writes in with the following: I am Larin Lane a performer in the business. Shy Love at Adult Talent Managers has been managing me since July of 2007. I had a brief period (1 week) were Shy and I were at a disagreement and went over to Generation XXX Models. I [...]

Klaus writes in with the following: Hi Luke, I’m preparing a radio feature on nightclub singers and bar pianists. And that, alas, brings me to my subject. I’m sure You know the name Helga Sven aka Ursula or simply Helga. She was one of the famous, legendary adult stars in the eighties, in the Golden [...]

Roughly a week ago, Xbiz held a Piracy Seminar during their Hollywood Conference. The panel for this conference consisted of Andrew Stoddard from Hush Hush (and Shane’s World), as well as Jason Tucker from Falcon Foto. Several lawyers were also on the panel as was Diane Duke from the Free Speech Coalition. During the seminar [...]

I just spoke at length with Matt Kalinowski from the publicity group at Playboy Entertainment Group regarding our payroll story. At first he said the reason the employees didn’t get paid was they waited more than 90 days to deposit their payroll checks. I pointed out that the checks were issued in late December, only [...]

I spoke this morning with my source on Monday’s Playboy paycheck story. Without any interrogation, Playboy decided it was him that had leaked the story, and fired him on Tuesday night. Our source confirmed that Playboy is still more than 30 days delinquent on at least a dozen employee paychecks. California state law requires restitution [...]

Why did SexZ Pictures ban the resale of their DVDs on AdultDVDMarketplace.com?

As you might have read, one of the biggest Hollywood payroll companies, Axium, went out of the business in early January due to the Writers Guide strike. It so happens that a subsidiary of Axium, Avalon Visual,  serviced Playboy Entertainment Group (the division which includes Playboy TV and Playboy Radio, among other departments) That means [...]

Arnold Stein, a/k/a Arnold T., owner of Old Pueblo Distribution, is out of the adult business. He made most of his news by being publicly accused of theft by several of the producers he distributed. I was told business had gotten so bad that he was living in his warehouse, after his wife (who had [...]

Why are Jerry Aharony’s competitors still buying the DVDs? He is widely disliked. He bought the Candy Shop and Amateur District libraries from Red Light District last year.