Vivid Entertainment

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Vivid Entertainment Group is one of the world's largest adult film producers, featuring a popular catalog of VHS and DVD titles and Internet content^[1].

Vivid specializes in high-production-value movies, filmed in exotic locations and shot with professional lighting and quality cinematography. Vivid also produces gay porn movies under the names "Vivid Man" and "Vivid Video".

Contents 1 Vivid Girls 2 Policies and production values 3 Licensing Program 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

Vivid Girls

The company is best known for its "Vivid Girls", a collection of porn starlets. These women made their names in other companies' productions, then moved to Vivid once they had become famous. The Vivid Girls are retained on exclusive contracts much like those of bygone days of the Hollywood studio system. They reportedly command a higher salary than do free-agent performers and produce only a handful of films per year (in 2004, Jenna Jameson told an interviewer "you probably have more sex than I do - I only film a couple of scenes three or four times a year").

Policies and production values

In the past, Vivid has had a strict policy mandating condom use (see below), and the sexual activities shown are generally "milder" than those of Vivid's competitors. Scenes of bondage are rare and particularly mild. Vivid did not follow the path taken by much of the rest of the U.S. porn industry in the late 1990s toward more explicit and extreme activities. Intercourse almost always involves a heterosexual couple. These policies are intended to appeal to a wide, mainstream market (including women and heterosexual couples) that may not rent or buy pornographic movies frequently.

Vivid produces relatively few titles per year, and each film is aggressively advertised and promoted. This is different from many other San Fernando Valley production companies, who routinely film, edit and release a two-hour title in less than a week, spending relatively little on advertising or promotion.^{[citation needed]} According to Forbes Magazine Vivid produces 60 films per year and its annual revenue is $100 million USD.^[2] The same estimate was given by Business Week in June 2006.^[3]

Its titles are sold to the rental market and direct to consumers through its online mail-order site. Vivid also distributes the films to cable and satellite channels and offers its Internet subscribers full access to hundreds of titles. Steve Hirsch and David James, who together started the company in 1984, control Vivid.

In February 2006 it was reported that Vivid had terminated their condom-only policy and would let performers decide whether to use condoms or not. Main competitor Wicked Pictures retained their condom-only policy.^[4] Director Chi Chi LaRue left Vivid due to this change.^[5]

Licensing Program

In 2007 Schecter Guitars releases a limited line of Vivid Guitars. ^[6]

See also

• List of pornographic movie studios

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