Adam & Eve Launches Independent Adult Cinema Label

LAS VEGAS - Adam and Eve is launching a new line called Independent Adult Cinema. The label will debut Jan. 28 with the release of Joanna Angel’s Not Another Porn Movie. The line will also feature titles from Benny Profane (Bullets and Burlesque) and Carlos Batts (Young Hollywood).

“These are some really cool projects, and we’re hoping they’re groundbreaking,” said Adam & Eve sales VP Peter Reynolds. “It’s stuff that is definitely not typical of Porn Valley directors. We’re still going full speed with a number of big-budget features in 2008 — and we have a lot of them – but this is a chance for us to really raise the bar. There’s a real call for different things in this industry. A lot of people are inundated with the same things.”

Director Carlos Batts saw his first movie from Adam and Eve, Voluptuous Life as more of an erotic documentary than pure smut. The movie examines the hedonistic lifestyle of plus-sized erotic model April Flores in an attempt to inspire women to shed their negative body images, Batts said.

“The difference with Voluptuous Life is that we tried to incorporate a lot of sexuality in way that documents it, like a Kinsey experiment," Batts told AVN. "It’s couples and women who are really getting excited about the movie…we’re getting a lot of feedback.”

“That’s why I do these things, for the great feedback,” said Flores. “So many times, in porn, there’s that whole BBW circus and freak show perspective to some of these kinds of things.”

Now Adam and Eve is preparing Batts’ next offering, Young Hollywood. The title streets March 8. Inspired by Batts’ 2003 photo book “Crazy Sexy Hollywood,” Young Hollywood stars Kimberly Kane and Ashley Blue as socialites on the Hollywood scene.

In addition to performances from Alex Gonz, Steven St. Croix, Adrianna Nicole, Jerry, Dane Cross and Lindsey Meadows, Young Hollywood features an assortment of cameos by performance artists, musicians, DJs, actors, artists, models and burlesque dancers.

“The thing about Independent Adult Cinema is that it is adult, but it’s coming from a different perspective,” said Batts. “It’s looking to the future, not replicating what’s been done. This is now."