Starring Brooklyn Lee, 2011 AVN Best Actress India Summer and 2011 AVN Best New Starlet Gracie Glam, Daniels’ new project will be the first production in the series to eschew the vignette format of previous releases in favor of a fully scripted storyline and thoughtfully rendered characterizations. This new exercise in seduction will begin principal photography in and around Los Angeles March 1st, 2011.

A tale of love and betrayal in which lovers from different worlds find each other, Heart Strings will feature a top A-list cast. In addition to Brooklyn, India and Gracie (in one of her biggest roles since winning AVN’s coveted Best New Starlet award last month), the project will also feature Seth Gamble, the rising star who snared AVN’s 2011 award for Best Male Newcomer and talented 2011 AVN nominee Michael Vegas.

The Wicked Passions line is already a hit with viewers and critics, with AVN giving the recent Drenched In Love a solid AAAA rating and the reviewers at Adult DVD Talk calling the line “the very definition of couples porn.” And now, with AVN award-winning director Daniels at the helm, today’s hottest new stars in the cast, and filming scheduled to take place at authentic Southern California ranching locations, Heart Strings promises to lift the franchise to a new level of sophistication.

Get ready to join Stormy Daniels and today’s hottest stars for a sexually charged journey next week as they explore the series Adult DVD Talk applauds for delivering “fine couples action.”

For more, please visit www.wicked.com

Bridgette B, the “Spanish Doll” from Barcelona, has been taking the adult industry by storm, filming with companies like Evil Angel, Wicked and Vince Vouyer.

As part of her appearances this weekend, Bridgette will be available to meet the clubs’ guests, sign autographs, sell merchandise and perform private dances in the clubs’ VIP areas.

You can follow Bridgette on Twitter at www.twitter.com/spanishdollxxx.

Each month, California Girls’ ‘Back To Basics’ feature series brings one of the country’s top adult performers to its main stage – and to its private lap dance areas.

Join us for action at two clubs: private dances, cheap booze, porn stars, and all the ridiculous, shameful memories you can handle.

California Girls Anaheim is an upscale, fun but intimate venue with a full bar and non-stop topless entertainment. California Girls Santa Ana features flat-out, non-stop nude entertainment in an intimate, upscale, newly-redecorated environment.

California Girls Anaheim is located at 815 S. Brookhurst St., Anaheim, CA. (714) 635-8040.

California Girls Santa Ana is located at 1109 N. Harbor Blvd. Santa Ana, CA. (714) 554-0491.

The California Girls website is www.CalGirlz.com, where you can check out all three California Girls clubs, in Anaheim, Santa Ana and Fullerton.

A perennial favorite of the show’s hosts and audience members, Ms. drake’s track record with the program goes back nearly six years. However, many things have changed for the svelte beauty since her iniital appearance. She’s won the coveted AVN Best Actress Award three times, served as as an AVN Awards Show host herself, and branched out as a triple threat writer/performer/director, with her latest Wicked Pictures release, 3 Days In June, reaching stores everywhere this week.

To top it off, she’s now the host of her own radio show – IN BED With jessica drake, which airs every Monday evening on Playboy Radio (XM and Sirius 99). Expect to learn more about this provocative radio program, her new movie, and her upcoming appearance with the rest of the Wicked Girls at eXXXotica L.A. (July 9th-11th) when she joins Creedence And Bishop on the air next week.

jessica is a gorgeous woman to be sure, but sheer physical beauty is thin and superficial if it simply sits there asking to be admired like a collection of pretty china plates. So do yourself a favor and listen to Monday’s interview, because every word she slings at you is certain to glow with vitality.

Just like the woman herself.

“I had planned on directing my first movie a few years ago, but things didn’t work out as planned,” Presley explains. “When we formed [our company] skinworXXX, I knew this was the best venue for me to make my directorial debut, and when the idea for FemmeCore came to fruition, I knew this was the perfect movie for me to do it with. It’s going to be a much harder all-girl movie than most fans would expect, and we’ve cast some of the biggest stars working today. I am so excited and know this is going to be a great movie.”

Teagan will appear in all five scenes in FemmeCore, and joining Presley in her directorial debut will be Adam & Eve Contract Star Alexis Ford, Andy San Dimas, Celeste Star, Lisa Ann, Nina Mercedez, Monique Alexander and Juelz Ventura.

To help Presley’s directing debut go more smoothly, skinworXXX CEO/director Joshua secured Francois Clousot to serve as Director of Photography. “Francois is one of the very best in the business. His work for Wicked has been unbelievable, and we felt like his skill set and technical savvy would really help Teagan make FemmeCore something special,” Joshua said.

Presley went on to explain the look and feel of FemmeCore as she envisions it. “FemmeCore is going to be very dirty and much harder than fans are expecting. This isn’t gonna be just another pretty girl-on girl-movie. We are gonna have a lot of anal, some very interesting and eye-catching scenarios and themes, as well as a few surprises.”

FemmeCore is currently in pre-production and will begin filming this May in Los Angeles, and will be released by Adam & Eve later in 2010.

Who doesn’t love a big blockbuster movie? They so exciting and shiny and expensive! On that note, who doesn’t love porn? Beautiful people with elaborate costumes, getting all wet and breathing heavy together…

How about hardcore penetration with exciting action sequences, drama, suspense, intense story and clever dialogue?

If you think about it, blockbuster movies and adult films have more in common than one would initially think. (At least, there’s always a gratuitous showing of something or another!)

Who doesn’t love a porn feature? Jon from Texas loves porn features. He says that having a story gives the scene a context, and when the directors and writers don’t give a story, he invents one for himself.

“With a regular porn scene, it’s got no frame,” he says. “The movie having a story is much more guiding. You don’t end up inventing the frame around the scene. You just plug yourself into it.”

(Though, admittedly, Jon wonders if he’s the only one who creates plot around the porn he enjoys.)

“I think they should make more features,” he says. “There are so many stories I would love to see made into feature porn movies!”

Interested in enjoying the full pornographic, cinematic experiences, but not sure how to tell the difference between the good stuff from the horrid? Gamelink.com has a great list of the 25 must-have porn features, listing genres as varied from action adventure, murder mystery, romance, to high fantasy.

“These films really suck you in,” say the sexy cats at Gamelink.com, “and once the action starts you’ll have a hard time tearing yourself away.”

Or at least, if it’s done well enough, something will be hard.

So, if people in general seem to like feature length big budget adult films, why aren’t more of them produced?

Last February, AskMen.com released a great list of the top ten biggest budget adult films, counting down to the most expensive. All of these were feature length films, because common sense says the longer and more elaborate the film, the more expensive it will be. There is a huge difference between filming a collection of five 20 minute scenes in one studio over the span of two days verses editing hours and hours of sex, plot, dialogue and special effects.

Simply put, the more effort put into something, the more expensive it will be.

That said, there is something beautiful, simple and pure about having a girl, a boy, and a toy in a dark studio for 30 minutes and filming what happens. But these sort of scenes are sexy, which is a different type of excitement. A three hour full length science fiction spectacular event is exciting in a completely different meaning of the word.

Traditionally, sex flicks had to be seen in theaters. Because of this, directors paid more attention to quality and story (granted, this was circa 1975 quality and story). After all, just watching plain ol’ sex wasn’t usually worth the trouble of leaving one’s home and venturing out into the wide open world. They had to create films that people wanted to go to see. With the popularity of at home videos, however, films began to die out. People could have porn shipped directly to their doors, or even rent from a plethora of options.

(As a kid, I always did wonder what was behind the beaded curtain at the video store.)

Enter the internet, and the face of the adult industry changed forever with a huge wide multi-verse of perverted and delicious options. (Talk about the good, the bad and the ugly!)

The adult industry has a lot of money. Despite the recent downturns of the economy, porn is still making a lot of money. Rather than making money through one big picture event, however, production companies and studios make so much money because they produce dozens of smaller, lower quality films.

Again, filming two guys and a girl in some dude’s living room is not really Hollywood blockbuster quality. Money is made and people are paid, but not to the extent of a feature length adult film to the likes of, let’s just say, Pirates.

Ah, Digital Playground and Adam and Eve’s adult pornographic hit of 2005, Pirates. A feature spoof from the endlessly popular Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Adam and Eve took something good and sexy and made it awesome and sexier.

When it comes to adult films, many see Pirates as breaking the mould. It wasn’t a 70s or 80s cheesetastic porno flick. It was a blockbuster in the spirit of the big budget Hollywood Blockbuster. The first Pirates had a budget of one million dollars. That’s one million porn dollars, where most films are produced for a fraction of that amount.

And that’s not even mentioning the 2008 sequel, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenue, which cost even more than the original.

Not only were the Pirates movies more expensive than other adult films, but they featured and released original motion picture soundtracks and milder, rated R edited versions.

And who can forget 1979’s Caligula, the tale of the wayward and decadent (bat-shit crazy) Roman emperor. Co-financed by Penthouse, Caligula was a strange hybrid of independent historical film and hard core, gut wrenching pornography. Probably the most well-known (and infamous) adult film ever made, it is also the most expensive.

Building from the tradition of Caligula and remembering Pirates, feature length adult films seem to be gaining momentum. This year saw the release of Adam and Eve’s post apocalyptic masterpiece, 8^th Day, as well as Wicked’s robot-fembot-replicant love story 2040.

Smaller studios like Girlfriends Films and Sweetheart Video have been paying attention to storylines. These lovely lesbian productions present either a collection of small vignettes loosely tied to an overlying theme (Women Seeking Women), or serial installments continuing an episodic storyline (Road Queen).

Some associate storylines with “couples’ porn” which can have the tendency to have a dragging plot, boring dialogue, and overly dramatic acting. While sex doesn’t always have to be an intense double dong gang-bang, it doesn’t necessarily need to be sickeningly saccharine sweet, either. It should be something for everyone to enjoy, and the modern face of the adult film feature is a great way to experience adult entertainment for the very first time, or to share your porn habits with someone you love.

Modern adult features are the gifts that keep on giving. Pornographic actors and actresses seem to enjoy making them, studios make a lot of money releasing them, and the public loves watching them. Though the acting may not be Oscar award winning, it’s usually better than the typical “is that a sausage in your pizza box or are you just happy to see me and my lesbian co-ed roommate?”

Most of all, they’re pretty. The stories are pretty and engaging, directors pay attention to sets, costumes and other details, and the talent – oh, the talent! In this wonderful world of adult film features, the men are as pretty or talented as the women usually are – and they’re likeable, too!

The Adult Video News (AVN) Awards reward studio’s hard work with plenty of awards each year, and the features are usually a highlight. It’s no secret that 8^th Day and 2040 are both fierce contenders for this year’s honor.

So, pop some popcorn, take out the lube, find your favorite snuggle buddy and pop in a DVD or a toy or two. Finally, enjoy some hard core lights, camera and most of all, action.

Sources:

http://www.gamelink.com/naked_truth.jhtml?id=musthave_features
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-big-budget-porns.html
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/26/the-adult-film-industry-rediscovers-its-balls/
http://thefastertimes.com/sexanddating/2009/07/22/porn-should-have-a-plot/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/business/media/08porn.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=pornography&st=cse