Porn Valley- Keith O'Connor's, www.defiancefilms.com on the line with his director Vince Voss. Voss is telling him their Latina movie is shooting ahead of schedule that maybe they'll have this thing done in a day instead of two. O'Connor's saying yeah go for it, that maybe they'll shoot a blowjob movie if the second day suddenly becomes available. O'Connor, formerly of Metro, is running production for Defiance Films.
Defiance Films, a brand new porn company, is set up in Calabasas in a sweet location. I'm telling O'Connor who knew all this office space was back here. O'Connor's saying they got a nice deal to locate in this neck of the woods.
And then there's the brand spanking new offices, featuring the fresh paint, fresh carpeting, new office smell. Kind of like the new car smell before somebody wet farts on the upholstery. And from the way O'Connor is talking, the wet pussy smell isn't going to louse up Defiance's upholstery, either. That they want to run this operation to make money, not necessarily make porno girl friends. To that extent, O'Connor's telling me that agencies want to send their girls over. O'Connor's telling them, thanks. I can see what they look like on the Internet.
Defiance doesn't seem to be fucking around. Even though their first movie, Pleasure, is set to come out in June, they've got something like 9 films already in the can. And they only started shooting, like, last month. O'Connor's telling me they're scheduled for quick turnaround- editing, artwork, screeners, the whole deal. It's like a three-man operation right now. Anthony Simone, who came over from Metro with O'Connor is handling sales. Norman Bentley, formerly of Matrix, heads up directing.
"I'm fortunate to have the two people working with me that I do," says O'Connor. "Anthony Simone is one of the most respected and well liked people in the business. I trust Anthony completely and I know he'll be the driving force for branding the Defiance name. I'm lucky to be working with the best salesman in the business in Anthony.
"And Norman Bentley, www.matrixcontent.com for years has been the standard in the content business that all others have been measured by because of Matrix Content," O'Connor adds. "He has an incredible eye for the talent, the pairings and he knows how to get the most out of the performers when he shoots, he brings an energy to his films that the performers feed off of and get caught up in. Working with these two makes everything I do easy."
So I'm asking him about directors, like what is the situation with that. O'Connor says they're open to try different people, that Shy Love did a movie for them. "And we've talked to other people." O'Connor whose forte is creating websites, really hasn't had the time to address that issue. "You need at least 20 titles for content," he says, noting that every scene being shot for Defiance is accounting for at least 500 pics between pretty girl and hardcore.
From here it gets interesting. Defiance shoots two movies a month but O'Connor says they'll build that schedule up to one release a week. O'Connor thinks this a schedule they can live with, that anything beyond would be over saturation. Again, that's always been the famous porno last words.
For now, all genres will be covered: interracial, Euro, big tit, Latin and teenage. O'Connor figures this is amply touching the bases. So I'm asking O'Connor what happened at Metro when he walked off third base in the middle of the game. His face turns sad, O'Connor's saying how he loved Metro; loved Kenny Guarino. "Kenny's a great man," O'Connor says in a low voice. A hurt voice. According to O'Connor, Kenny taught him a lot. But O'Connor also talks about disappointment, anger and hurt, and how Metro had too many cooks in the kitchen working up recipes.
"Metro was my home," O'Connor goes on to say. "I didn't want to leave." Yet O'Connor seemed to have left the card game he knew he couldn't win: stacked decks and maybe too many outsiders named Amarillo Slim. Without naming names, O'Connor gives me a telling example. A porn website is making $30,000 a month. By all standards, says O'Connor, these are nice figures. But someone who doesn't know his ass from a hole in a ground is telling everybody, hey, that site should be making a $1 million a month. All of a sudden, everybody's unhappy with the 30G's. The story at Metro. This is what O'Connor is saying.
So I ask O'Connor what's the story with Defiance. "We're here to make money and not play games," he answers, telling me he likes the freedom he's been given in his new position..
"We hire you and pay you immediately," O'Connor hastens to add. "No games." O'Connor thinks this comment is probably going to come as a refreshing shock to a lot of people in the business. Defiance's business plan, also, is to be aggressive and emulate the success arcs of a Redlight, www.rldv.com, or a Zero Tolerance, www.ztvideo.com.
And another thing, says O'Connor, the company's shooting all its movies in hi-def. For at least that reason, O'Connor's describing Pleasure as an incredible shoot. "I've never seen anything like it."
It features a killer scene between Kurt Lockwood, www.kurtlockwood.com and Samantha Ryan. Then there's a fourway all-girl scene that boasts Rita Faltoyano, Monica Sweetheart, Paola Ray and Monica Mayhem. Killer stuff shot in a Bel Air mansion. "Had people shaking in the knees," says O'Connor who tells me a lot of money went into this gonzo production. Maybe more than what was anticipated. "But it was worth it."
Check out these two trailers: Pleasure - www.defiancefilms.com/trailers/pleasure.wmv Teen Handjobs 1 - www.defiancefilms.com/trailers/teenhandjob1.wmv
