WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Keith Manheim Studios has opted to “go green” by pulling out of DVD distribution.
“Over the past two years there’s been a surge in online digital distribution, while there’s been a steady decline in physical DVD sales,” said KM Studios owner Keith Manheim. “We’re in a unique position to capture that upswing while leading the effort to become more eco-conscious. We have decided to go digital; that way we can better serve our customer, and we at KM Studios believe that digital distribution is the way to go. This is also a great way to help the environment.
“Now that we’ve gone all-digital, we can get our products out faster and in a more efficient way and at the same time serve the needs of the consumer while being mindful of our carbon footprint,” he added.
The studio henceforward will deliver its product in two ways: via an exclusive contract with a video-on-demand provider, and on its pay site, where customers can download and own all KM Studios releases in digital rights management-free video format. The download formats include MPEG4 H.264 (which easily transfers to iPod and AppleTV) and Windows Media. All downloads are encoded for full DVD quality, Manheim said.
Users who do not wish to download the content can view it on the pay site in either Flash video or via a Windows Media stream.
“By cutting down on packaging, we’re ensuring a continued move toward sustainability and a better future,” Manheim said. “This decision meets the service needs of customers in the most effective way possible. Consumers demand good-quality, affordable content, and research [has shown] that the majority of Internet users now have access to high-speed broadband. Consumer trends have made this decision easy.”
KM Studios is a division of KM Studios UIA International Inc., a New Zealand company that has served the gay market since 1997. The studio has produced gay adult movies since early 2002; it has produced eight titles since January 2005.
The company also offers a webmaster affiliate program, KM Bucks, which pays a 70% revshare.
Source: GAYVN NEWS
November 20th, 2007
I got the news just a few days ago that we were in high risk, and in fact have lost our distribution. The reason being is the highly competitive niche of the Twink DVD market. I have to agree that we are not set up to battle the giants like Bel Ami® or other big brand name studios, but that has never been our intention. We started setting out with the goal to make porn we liked as a group of highly diversified pornographers. We have proved that with the Keith Manheim website, it retains, sells and competes with large number of websites out there and scores highly on many user review and webmaster written review sites.
We regret that this is happening but as always there are opportunities at every turn and we will surely not stop distribution the Keith Manheim line of DVDs. This year we are set to launch five new titles and are in negotiations with a new distributor that appreciates our artistic values more than our previous company.
May 25th, 2007
Now on to the first Keith Manheim naming contest. We have been throwing names for our September release back and forth and haven’t been able to come up with any great names for this innovative gay orgy title.
What you as a reader of my blog can do is send me a line at e-mail or comment to this thread and if you pick the winning title you’ll be sent a complimentary set of every released Keith Manheim DVD to date.
In short whats it’s about:
The movie takes place in Prague, Czech republic and its a reality style film about boyfriends that are bored in their sex life. They go to the streets of Prague and start picking up guys, who one by one, join their sex party. The main actor Joseph offers his boyfriends ass as way to get things started and a major sex orgy party is thrown in their apartment.
Now we have been throwing some names around and we’ve come up with things like Who wants to fuck my boyfriend? or Reality Sucks but those names aren’t really catchy enough.
If you have a suggestion on what the title could be on this film you can send me e-mail at [email protected] or simply post your thoughts on the comment thread below. If you’re the winner you’ll get the complete set of Keith Manheim DVDs delivered to your door (where permitted by law). If there are more than one winner, that is more than one people suggest the same title, the winner will be the first one suggesting it.
Now lets keep the titles coming…
April 6th, 2007
It’s a great job being a pornographer and all but can you imagine being in this position, just inches away from the live action? I’ve always wanted to write a script for a cowboy movie and I did just that, and I believe the DVD is just out about now. Planting his Seed will be available from all better corner shops and adult DVD retail websites soon so look for it and tell me if you liked it.
Here is some inside scoop on the scene this photo was taken in. We had originally casted another actor in the role of the Villon of this scene, but for some reason that actor didn’t show up and we where panicking for hours trying to find a replacement. I had the brilliant idea to go to the local village and look around the street if I would see any unemployed factory workers (apparently there was a strike at the time of the film being shot) and guess what; I found the perfect Villon and he was much better than we had originally cast for the part. Turned out to be a great day of shooting on our first gay Cowboy themed title ‘Planting his Seed’
April 3rd, 2007
I followed an advice from a friend of mine last year and shot my first Fetish title in the Keith Manheim video line titled ‘Virgin Spank‘. I really don’t want my blog to turn into an infomercial but since I am a pornographer and my job revolves around my films and website I thought I’d give you some insight into the making of this wonderful title.
After the initial casting we ended up with three youthful young guys that all where into experimental sex and really wanted to try out starring in a fetish Spanking movie. We had rented a dungeon, actually, I’m not sure if its a dungeon if its located on the 4th floor of an apartment building :) We stumbled up the stairs with our equipment and the models where so nice to help us carrying the stuff, it was a few hundred kilos and would have killed me and my assistant Globo if we hadn’t gotten the help. Usually the models are so lazy and busy with their looks that they don’t care what the production crew is up to, so this was a greatly appreciated exception.
When setting up was finished and we where ready to shoot we went through the story line with the cast. It wasn’t a complicated script and I wont go into the storyline, just buy the DVD or get a membership to Keith Manheim and download the movie. This day was extremely hot and with the addition of 5000W of lights it quickly became unbearable inside the dungeon. It kind of gave the movie a good look to have the guys loathed in a thin layer of sweat and was kind of sexy. Anyway, after 12 hours of shooting the film we actually managed to wrap up shooting on this title in one day, a record for us since we usually shoot one scene pr. day but these actors where just so good and did their job so fantastically that we ended up having way more material than we needed for the title at the end of the day.
You can watch the trailer for Virgin Spank by clicking here.
April 1st, 2007