LONDON - Eurocreme has dipped its toe into mainstream commercial filmmaking with movie called VGL-Hung! The 20-minute short is a spinoff of the adult film Hung! produced in 2007 by Eurocreme subsidiary BulldogXXX.
VGL-Hung has been touring the international GLBT film festival circuit, screening to audiences in London, Milan and New York. It is expected to go wide in March now that it has been picked up by UK-based gay film distributor Peccadillo Pictures.
Peccadillo plans to release VGL-Hung! as part of its Boys On Film DVD, which comprises a compilation of titillating short films from gay filmmakers. The DVD is the first in a planned series to be sold online and at specialty retail outlets.
VGL-Hung! was directed by Max "Maxwell.B" Barber, who has been producing content for BulldogXXX since the studio launched in 2005. The story is a twisted, Cinderella-style fantasy about an average guy who discovers a magic website that can give him the hunky body he desires in order to attract as many men as he can. There is a moral to the story, which explores body- and sex-obsessed contemporary society and the perils of "convenience sex" on the Internet.
"Short films by nature don't usually make money," Barber said, explaining that his original reason for making the film was to raise the profile of BulldogXXX and its models. "With this model of production, though, it is possible, given that we already had the locations, the cast and the production infrastructure set up for the adult version. All we needed to do was be imaginative and write the script around what we had and employ some professional actors in the supporting roles to give the film and story some credibility."
The concept persuaded Alphamale Media to contract Barber for the production of a spinoff of that studio's next adult production.
"As the economy wobbles, we have to look at alternative ways of raising our profile outside of costly advertising," said Alphamale honcho Gavin Hay, a former television executive who goes by the nom de porn Trojan Rock. "There is always the novelty value with porn spilling over into the mainstream if done right. Max is a filmmaker at heart - his porn films are cracking, too - and the standards he's set with VGL-Hung! are very impressive. It sees like a wise, entrepreneurial approach to continue this merging of genres."
Hay said his project will be shot in London and Rio de Janeiro and will revolve around gangsters who get mixed up in the porn industry - with a gay twist, of course.
More information about VGL-Hung! is available at the film's website, VGLHung.co.uk. BulldogXXX.com and Eurocreme.com house additional information about the studios.
Peccadillo Pictures may be found online at PeccadilloPictures.com.
Alphamale Media's virtual home is at AlphamaleMedia.com.
