From Paid Content:

—Spike TV picks up PG Porn Webisodes:  The network picked up a new season of 11 episodes of James Gunn’s PG Porn, a comedic web series that pairs adult entertainment stars with mainstream actors, sans sex; the pilot episode gained more than one million views when it debuted on Spike.com last year. New episodes of PG Porn will premiere each month, followed by behind the scenes footage and cast interviews. Safran Digital Group (backer and producer of the Xbox Live series Horror Meets Comedy) and Good Boy Productions co-produced the show. Release.

In reading Theresa Darklady Reed’s didactic op/ed piece on PG Porn in the Huffington Post I’m reminded of the ancient Navajo truism:

He who laughs last…didn’t get the joke.

PG Porn isn’t for everyone, but anyone who watches it and doesn’t recognize that it’s a parody can’t reasonably be expected to offer a sociological analysis of value. Especially if the basis of your argument comes down to morality contest. Arguing morality against satire is like calling professional wresting a real sport, then enforcing mandatory steroid-testing.

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Nailing Your Wife

PG Porn Official Site

PG Porn Superfan Trivia: (more…)

James Gunn’s PG Porn is about to get a great plug from the best tabloid fish wrap in the country, The National Enquirer.

It looks like the issue will hit grocery store check-out lines on October 13th, one week following PG Porn’s debut on Spike.com on the 8th.

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Scandalous!

Next Thursday is Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish Holidays.

What better way to atone for your sins than to observe the debut episode of James Gunn’s PG Porn starring Dr. Horrible’s Nathan Fillion and superstar adult model Aria Giovanni?

The first episode, Nailing Your Wife, debuts on Spike.com on Wednesday, October 8th.

Just be sure to watch it before sundown! (more…)

That’s the tagline of James Gunn’s new web series, PG Porn, which I’m proud to announce Safran Digital produced in association with the Gunn brothers’ Good Boys Production and sold to Spike. The debut episode, Nailing Your Wife, starring Nathan Fillion (Dr. Horrible, Serenity, Firefly, Slither) and Aria Giovanni, will air as an online exclusive on spike.com on October 8th.

Here’s James and Aria talking about the series:

A few pics from Comic-Con. Then I’m going cold turkey.

Our Xbox Original Content panel filled the conference hall, drawing an overcapacity crowd of 800 fans. Admittedly, I was nervous as to the reaction we’d get when we showed the trailers. There might not be a more discriminating mob than a packed Comic-Con crowd. When you’re partnering with the Imperial Microsoft and half of your audience is dressed as Jedi Knights with the intergalactic obligation to uphold the standards and practices of the Rebellion, you don’t know what to expect. Much to my relief, the crowd embraced the shows and the filmmakers. It was a great event. (more…)

Humanzee, James Gunn’s new Xbox show about the trials and tribulations of growing up in American as a half-human, half-chimpanzee teenager, just got a write-up on the official website of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Bratislava has been a favorite backdrop for number of recent Hollywood productions, but as the article laments, for the most part the depictions have been of a “dangerous and scary place.” Eli Roth’s horror flicks, Hostel 1 and Hostel 2, both featured the Eastern European city in a less than flattering light, as did Eurotrip.

When asked why he chose Bratislava for Humanzee’s country of origin, Gunn, a noted aficionado of Slovak culture (witness his brief stint on the professional polka dance circuit prior to a devastating ankle injury that diverted him into filmmaking), replied: (more…)

Today, Safran Digital went public with the details of our partnership with Xbox. In particular, we’ve announced the directors for our slate of original web video pilots, which launch this fall to coincide with Xbox’s user-interface redesign.

The directors involved include James Wan (Saw, Death Sentence), David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), James Gunn (Slither), Lucky McKee (May), Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror) and Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th).

I’m extremely proud of the filmmakers and their camps, the deal we’ve put together and what I believe it represents for the future of digital content economics. (more…)

If you’re involved with coordinating a promotion at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, or you’ve ever been married, you know what it’s like to be on deadline at the nexus of a perfect storm of interwoven, critical dependencies that bear heavily upon your future state of happiness.

I’ve been married three times and been to Comic-Con once I’ve been to Comic-Con three times and married once, but it dawned on me today that putting together an event for the granddaddy of all entertainment conventions is analogous to the scheduling nightmare that is wedding planning. (more…)