Press Release
Vivid Entertainment’s “Spider-Man XXX: A Porn Parody” was a clear favorite among the judges in the all-important parody category at the 2012 AVN Awards for the top adult movies of the year.
Adult Video News judges gave top honors to the movie in the Best Parody, Best Parody Drama, Best Cinematography categories and its director Axel Braun won the Director of the Year (Body of Work) award for the second year in a row.
“We’re all thrilled with this recognition from AVN” said Vivid vice president and head of production Marci Hirsch. “Sales have been incredible and feedback from comic and adult movie fans have been telling us we had a winner. These honors are the reward for pulling together as a team to produce what we believe will be an adult parody classic.”
“Spider-Man XXX” stars Vivid Girl Capri Anderson (of Charlie Sheen’s hotel escapade fame) as Mary-Jane and XRCO Best New Stud Xander Corvus in the title role.
Continuing in the studio’s tradition of releasing exciting mainstream celebrity movies, “Backdoor to Chyna” was recognized with the Best Celebrity Sex Tape award. The movie, starring former pro-wrestling champion Chyna, became a runaway success when it was released last year.
Vivid also won the Best Pro-Am Series category with its popular “Brand New Faces” series directed by B. Skow as well as other awards.
To cap off an exciting evening for the studio, Vivid’s founder and co-chairman Steven Hirsch was recognized with AVN’s first Visionary Award for his extraordinary achievements in the industry and for “single-handedly moving adult entertainment into the mainstream,” according to AVN founder Paul Fishbein.
Always enthusiastic about his next production, Braun commented “We were all tickled just to be working on the Spider-Man XXX parody but now we can’t wait for fans to see “Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody,” which will be out shortly. We think it will blow everything away!”
About Vivid:
Founded in 1984, Vivid has always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment and has created wide brand-name awareness through its films and the www.vivid.com website, an innovative marketing and a licensing program that extends to advertising, apparel, book publishing and a range of other products. Co-founder and CEO Steven Hirsch was honored in 2012 with the first AVN Visionary Award as a leader who “has propelled innovation and taken his company and the business as a whole to new heights.” In addition to its Vivid-Celeb imprint famous for celebrity sex tapes, the company is known for its Vivid SuperXXXHeroes parodies and award-winning feature films. Vivid has the industry’s largest archive of adult films.
