Writer/director DCypher signed an exclusive, two-year contract with Club Jenna Friday night calling for him to helm one feature per month during that time, with an option to extend the contract for a third year.
Still trying to absorb the magnitude of the deal over a diner brunch Sunday afternoon, Cypher commented, "I don't think it's fully settled in yet, completely what this means. We talked about it for a long time, but to see it come to fruition is just, like, 'Holy shit, I just signed with Club Jenna?!'"
As to how precisely the deal came to pass, Cypher related, "Jay [Grdina, president of ClubJenna] had been in town doing meetings with Playboy, since we're owned by Playboy, and I got a call from his assistant, Linda Johnson, telling me [they] were ready to meet - we've been talking about a contract for a little while at this point, and we had hammered out our own details of what we wanted to do, but due to the acquisition by Playboy, we needed to just make sure everything was aligned properly still, and that we were still on the same page.
"Linda said, 'We really want you as part of this family, we don't want to lose you, so let's get this done and wrap up our business.' And I went down to Beverly Hills and met Jay, and it's funny, Jay and I have always gotten along, we've always been friends, we always had kind of the same sense of retarded humor; we saw each other, we hung out for probably an hour before we even started talking about work. The contracts were there, we all knew what we wanted to do … we just sat and got into it, 'cause that's the kind of vibe that they have. And then we went over it and signed the thing in like five seconds. We were both happy, because we worked out the details of what I will and won't do, what my responsibilities are and how it's all going to operate. But it was more like two good friends hanging out."
DCypher has already shot his first title for Club Jenna, Fever Dream, doing so while pushing forward with his contract negotiations last month. "I knew I was gonna shoot a show with Club Jenna," he explained, "because we'd talked about it, they had always been interested in working with me. Even before I signed with Metro [where he recently ended a one-year contract], they were interested in working with me, and had expressed that, so they were actually bummed that I had signed, because it took me away from something they were trying to do. But ultimately, they were glad, because it gave me the opportunity to kind of grow and explore things before I stepped up to that level."
The artist told AVN.com that being with Club Jenna will allow him to fulfill the aspirations he's always had in pornmaking, but not fully realized up to this point. "I'm finally able, due to where I'm at now, to take my narrative, to take a story porn that's a real story, that's not just a clumsy re-creation of something or a loose string of a storyline that props up five completely non sequitur sex scenes, [and] coalesce the story with that wall-to-wall visual style that you see from great directors like Andrew Blake or Laurent Sky or Celeste," he said. "A perfect marriage of the two, in my opinion, that would be my favorite style of movie to watch. It seems like one always suffers, and I guess that's my goal, to try to create a more perfect marriage of those two."
It would seem that for DCypher, a nearing-10-year industry veteran, this deal signifies his official arrival as a major name. "For me, for a story porn director, it is the top, it's the best thing that could happen to me," he agreed. "And it's very exciting. There's no other company I would want to be signed to. This is like a fuckin' dream. I've found my family, and now I'm home."
