Measure B requires condoms in porn shot in Los Angeles.The porn industry in California is in crisis! More on that in a moment. There’s some other crises we tackle first. For example, Paramount/Viacom is dealing with their own crisis as more and more pictures of the new Ninja Turtles are leaking online. Some are shots of the maquettes from the set and there’s concept art of Shredder tacked to a bulletin board. Both of which Paramount has been sending takedown notices for. And then there’s a promotional poster for the toy line that was photographed. We have that one belowe in the Show Links. It gives us a good — and assumably legal — look at what the turtles will be like in the Michael Bay-produced movie. Producers are clearly distancing themselves from the look of the characters in the comics, original cartoon and first live-action films. Instead, they’re going for a more photorealistic, and biologically accurate appearance. The turtles have a more turtle-like beak and small scars and other skin imperfections. Donatello has glasses… and, yeah… he wears glasses. Cuz he’s the nerd of the group.
There’s also a new casting crisis over at the Batman/Superman movie. Internet hate can now shift from Ben Affleck as Batman to Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. The casting of the part was announced by Warner Bros. and the response seems to be split evenly. Guess which side of this we fall on? Jeremy Irons was also part of that announcement. He’ll take over Alfred from Michael Caine. Guess which side of this one we fall on?
Gawker’s got their own crisis as director Quentin Tarantino is suing the website for posting a link to a leaked copy of his latest screenplay. Although the site didn’t directly post the script, Tarantino’s lawyers say their posting of a link for finding it is a copyright violation in and of itself. It’s up to a judge to decide if that’s a stretch or not. Dennis has an interesting take on this.
He also has one on a crisis for the artist formally known as or currently referred to or whatever — Prince. The musician has filed a lawsuit against his own fans. For years Prince has fought to get YouTube videos of his concerts taken with cell phones pulled from the site. Now, he’s purple raining on 22 of his fans’ parades. It seems their sharing of links on their Facebook fan pages and their blogs of these types of videos has caused irreparable damage to Prince in excess of $1-million per defendant, according to court papers. Obviously, Prince fails to see and appreciate the free viral marketing campaign his own fans are running for him.
And now that porn crisis in California. By now, you’ve probably all heard about Measure B, the state law that passed requiring pornographers to use condoms when shooting in the greater Los Angeles area. Unfortunately, the industry says more and more people are demanding the sex in their porn to be unsafe! Coupled with increasing competition and piracy from the Internet and what’s a filthy filmmaker to do? I know, spend $100,000 on digitally removing the condoms from the male stars’ shafts. That’s what gay porn company, Falcon Studios is doing on their latest release, CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ 1. The director of the movie, Tony Dimarco is dreamin’ of the good ol’ — as he describes them, “carefree and spontaneous” — days of 70s and 80s porn when bareback was the standard and two guys could fuck poolside without the oppressive California legislature telling them to put a rubber on first. So, some lowly intern in the basement of Falcon Studios is tasked with rotoscoping tens-of-thousands of frames to digitally edit out the condoms. While Falcon decided to go this route, other studios are choosing a much easier and cheaper option. They’re shooting in places like Las Vegas where it’s just a stone’s throw from LA and protection isn’t required. Afterall, it’s Vegas baby!
And that’s about all the crises we can take this week. We aren’t done with sex and porn news though. In Japan, a new gizmo is being given away in a contest to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a lingerie maker there. It’s called the True Love Tester and it’s a little Bluetooth device that goes in place of the clasp on a woman’s bra. It monitors her heart rate and sends the data wirelessly to a phone app. When her “true love” makes her heart rate jump the clasp activates and releases; opening her bra for easy access to her titties by her true love. As you’ll hear us point out, there are a number of other things that’ll make her heart rate go up. Our silly scenarios on today’s episode.
And whodathunk that a classic, childhood toy wouldn’t want its brand associated with oral sex. Christy Mack, a porn star who describes herself as “a whore that likes LEGOS” certainly didn’t. She was running a contest with which her followers could build her something awesome out of LEGOS that she could display in her home. The winner would get a blow job from her! It’s a win win! Well, not for the suits it wasn’t. It’s unclear whether it was her lawyers or LEGOS’ that told her the contest ‘sucked’. But she called it off and told her fans they could still build her something if they wanted to anyway. Crisis averted.
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