signed by VCA Pictures, she's going to get $25,000 per project to boot. Ashton should be able to buy a lot of boots with that booty.
"This is for certain projects, bigger end projects," said Hampshire. "She gets paid a minimum of $25,000 per picture. And she has the right to do some better projects with some other people, but it has to be at the same rate. If they pay her $25,000 she's free to do it. But I don't think anybody is going to wan to pay her that.
"We have a special project coming up in a couple of months that's geared around DVD. It's going to be big-budget and will incorporate a lot of fantasies for DVD.
"We just made a deal with VCA and I'm staying there," Aston said. "It's not exactly exclusives. I can work for other companies who are willing to pay. We don't have a set number of pictures, but as a project comes up that will all agree on with script approval and all that sort of thing, then we'll do it.
Ashton said negotiations were going on before the CES show. "We were doing some soul-searching to see what we all wanted to do, what the new year was going to bring and what would be the best for everybody," she said. "We've always had that kind of relationship, and that's what I've always liked about VCA. We held off and waited to see if I wanted to go freelance, but the more I thought about it, it didn't appeal to me. I like the company. I like being there. It was just the process of where do you want to be, what do you want to do, what do we want to do. I was their first contract girl; I don't think they're looking to sign a bunch of girls again, but I've always been there, so we're going to keep the relationship going."
Ashton also keeps her production company, Ashtonview Promotions hopping. "It's a lot of work," she says. "But it's doing really well and is a lot of fun." Ashton acknowledges that there tends to be some confusion with her company's name and another named Ashtonview Productions. "I don't know who has that California business name, but it was reserved. I don't know if there's a company or not."
G. Ross: "I used to live at the Ashtonview Apartments."
Ashton: "Was it an exciting place to live? It must have been with that name."
G. Ross: "No."
Ashton: "It wasn't my view, then."
G. Ross: "They did a lot of productions there, but not too many promotions."
Ashton [laughing]: "The Essentially Juli's play a lot on Playboy. That's what a lot of my productions are based toward. I try to get out four hardcore a year. I don't like to do just volume for the sake of volume. I have enough other things going on where I don't have to worry about a release schedule and, oh my God, do a movie whether I like it or not.
"We just released Essentially Dee and Buried Treasure is the next big one coming up. It's more of an all-sex movie. I'm also shooting next week for VCA. That one's called Best Friends. We're back to light hearted comedy. Like I like."
G. Ross: "So nobody's getting punched around or beat up?"
Ashton: "No, absolutely not. Not a big message, not a big drama, just fun, happy sex. The way I like it.
