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
Shooting gay porn is the most fun aspect of my job. I get to see all these cute guys, casting them in my ultimate fantasy and get to decide what their role will be in my films.
Before I start a project, I always have a script in mind and a basic timeline of events to make the movie more interesting. Some directors forget all about this and only focus on the sex but my personal opinion is that the story line does matter, after all if someone watches the whole feature they’re going to be clueless afterwards and sit up only with a few tissues of wet cum in their hands.
I’ve often been criticized for the ‘quality’ of my porn, some critics say its bad, while others praise it as first class. The real issue is that we all are different and like different things. Reverent Mercury might want the camera to stay still focusing only on the close ups while Prime Minister Blair might like to see more of the action going on all around him.
You can quickly see after you buy the first film from a certain director or a studio what kind of flavor they offer, and if you like it, buy more.
That was my input on Quality… more to cum on my blog soon!
May 14th, 2007
First of all, the title is misleading. I didn’t go to the Oscars, or was invited to attend, nor did I win any awards or nominated for any. I went on a business trip last year (2006) to Los Angeles, the center or the pornographic world to meet up with a friend of mine from the industry and make some deals. It was around the time of the Oscars that year so we had a chance of holding a real Oscar statue… oh my it was heavy, and as you can see I got way too emotional receiving the award (btw. it was secured by four security guards and a chain wire, so this was not a take-home award!).
Los Angeles is a great place to be in and I really hope I’ll have a chance of visiting that great city again soon, I especially look forward visiting the Apple store at the Grove again!
April 29th, 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
In today’s digital area, anyone with a camera can pick it up and shoot porn. Some of these inspiring directors and actors become great artists, but the majority of them make a site in the hope of getting rich quick. But its not that easy.
Internet users that are looking for porn are getting swamped in more and more irrelevant porn that they really don’t want to see, but some newbies as I like to call them, get fooled with promises of million photographs and a pair of Mr. John’s Doe underwear in the mail next week if he joins his site. Practices like this make us all look bad that work hard in this industry to make a living and try to follow the moral standards so many claim we don’t follow. There are whole organizations out there, that in name of their religion or their misguided believes think that the adult industry is to blame for everything going bad in this world.
Now on to how we solve this problem for the poor newbies that get caught into Mr. John’s Doe underwear collection site. The best tool any porn surfer can use to accurately evaluate if a site is worth their money is to check out an official review, done by a reliable party like Just us Boys or Banana Guide. These websites are partial, but you have to keep in mind that these websites do get a ‘cut’ of anything you’ll end up spending at the site you choose to buy access to.
There is also a great tool that I have started to admire a lot lately and its called ‘The Best Porn‘. Its not just a review site and it gives you more under-the-hood look into what a site has to offer. However keep in mind that sometimes there are females that are reviewing gay sites, and I don’t think any of those guys are gay, so perhaps you should not relay too much on their opinion, however their data are remarkable accurate when it comes to number of photo sets, DRM and other criterias.
Remember, research before you buy.
March 31st, 2007
Its just the best job in the world, taping sexual intercourse between two men and then having the pleasure of editing it with the professionals back at our studio headquarters. Today I was taking a final cut at a movie we’re going to be releasing soon titles ‘Shaving My Virginity’. Its amazing and I am always more and more amazed on how much users value the soundtrack these days. At our studio all the music we use is either custom made or bought from highly respectable music stock companies with the idea in mind to highlight the theme of the movie. I’m sure you’ll agree that the soundtrack on ‘Shaving my Virginity’ is probably the best you’ve heard in some time on a porn film.
However, that said, I realize many people still hit the mute button and fast forward through a film without even caring about the soundtrack, the moaning or the slaps taking place in the film and just want to get off and cum as soon as they can. That’s a shame though, porn is art, although many would disagree with me on that.
March 30th, 2007
This could as well be the first chapter in my self biography as there is allot for me to tell about, about my background, my life, growing up and winding up in this wonderful industry we have all come to love.
I was born in the great year of the Snake in 1976, at the edge of the hippies and the beginning of the mass media and computer age. It was a wonderful time to grow up as a kid during this time, there was (yet) not too much TV and no gaming consoles, and we as kids still plaid outside from time to time. There was of course the momentary insanity from now and then when a new toy hit the market not unlike today when a new computer game hits the stores shelves.
I was in a hurry to grow up, so much that at the age of 18 I started my first porn “empire”, a text based adult website that really made a big impact. Later on, the market evolved and things started to get more serious and hardcore. On the way I partnered up with a genius and later my registered-partner Hauksson (we later got divorced but that’s OK, still best of friends and business partners). Together we founded KM Studios and have been very successful in getting our brand on the web and in the adult stores. We have very ambitious plans for the future and so far things have worked out just as planned.
I started making regular appearances in Prague, Czech republic in 2002 when I went to shoot my first film over there. It took us some time to find a partner to distribute our DVD line world wide but that happened and now we have regular distribution with 4-6 titles released every year. You can check out the studio website if you’re interesting to see what titles are out already and whats coming out soon.
For now I’ll leave this section of my blog and start writing the main posts. You can be sure that if I’m doing something nasty I’ll post about it here, plus back stage stories and stuff like that. Be welcome to bookmark this blog and return often to see the latest posts.
Yours truly,
Keith Manheim
March 24th, 2007