Friday, April 1s -- 2:15 PM to 3:30 PM
Adult Industry Business Models: Understanding the $10B+ Opportunity and How Adult Pushes What Works To Mainstream
In a surprise move, the Christian Coalition of America, the same group that lead the charge to put warning labels on rap CDs and raise fines for broadcasting indecency, came out in support of Hollywood this week in its court battle against peer-to-peer file sharing, citing a shared interest in reducing online child pornography.
Four of the leading Hollywood studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema, have officially taken sides with Toshiba's new DVD format HD-DVD, stepping over competing optical disc standard Blu-ray.
Making a steady sweep of the country, Hustler Hollywood stores have been popping up right and left, including a newly launched location in the United Kingdom. The latest store opening is slated to take place in New Orleans on Nov. 18.
San Francisco law enforcers-turned-porn stars, Reina Leone and Joe Friday, are appearing at Hustler Hollywood. The Sept. 10 release party at the posh Sunset Strip sex boutique marks the debut of the cop couple's new film, “Uniform Babes, Conduct UnBecumming.”
Heavyweights from mainstream entertainment, high-tech, academia and the adult industry are coming together to participate in the Digital Hollywood conference.
On Aug. 23, Hustler Hollywood pleaded not guilty in a Fayette County District Court. The sex boutique was charged on July 29 with violating a county zoning ordinance that prohibits adult-related venues - from bookstores to strip clubs - from doing business near Interstate highway interchanges.
Hustler Hollywood has won a key legal round in federal court. U.S. District Judge Karl Forester has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that the sex boutique’s manager, Jimmy Flynt, had lodged against the Lexington council.
Hustler Hollywood’s legal battle against an anti-adult zoning ordinance is scheduled to go to a federal court today. Jimmy Flynt is seeking a temporary restraining order so that the latest outlet of the national sex store chain can sell sexually explicit materials.
The nationwide chain of Hustler-branded retail outlets, which celebrate and promote the porn industry to the fullest, is slated to showcase porn's latest "It" girl Jesse Jane at its San Diego-based location on June 26 at 7 PM.
I decided to report on this InterNext Expo with a format more akin to a 'personal journal' rather than the more typical, clinical and generic 'event coverage' that is usually found. After all, there are only so many ways that you can say "We met a lot of nice people, went to cool parties, and did a lot of new business."
