Anyone else notice that Michael O's ePassporte banner has suddenly disappeared from his sig? What's that about?!?
Anyway, I see Nathan / Fabian of Mansef / Manwin has shown up in this thread. Perhaps he can answer how Chris Mallick's monumental box office flop "Middle Men" was advertised so heavily on the Manwin network of tube sites (Pornhub, Tube8, etc), and still became such a dismal box office failure?
Chris Mallick, in his own words:
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PH (Premium Hollywood): Speaking of being honest, I have gone to certain sites?
CM (Chris Mallick): No, say it?s not true.
PH: And seen ads for the movie.
CM: Yeah.
PH: You guys are advertising ? or somebody?s advertising ? really heavily on free porn sites.
CM: I think it?s the porn community. Because, to my knowledge, we?re not writing any checks. Paramount certainly isn?t. But I think you?ve got people that see this is a movie that?s going to promote their business and promote traffic. The trailer is pretty amazing. So, we?ll see. I have seen e-mails from people saying, ?Hey, what?s this about?? As far as I?m concerned, great. Those people buy tickets. The same guy whose going to ?Toy Story 3? is going to come to ?Middle Men.?
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Let's see, at last check:
Middle Men (not on any screens now): $733,447
Toy Story (still in theaters): $406,040,342
Chris is clearly delusional.
Here he contradicts himself:
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"Middle Men" has been promoted on television, in print ads and with a provocative poster, but the most compelling materials can be found online. Parroting a strategy used by other makers of risque works, "Middle Men" has assembled an R-rated (or red-banded, as such works are called by the Motion Picture Association of America) preview filled with nudity and raunchy language.
Released without the filmmakers? permission, an extended clip of Jack Harris wandering through a home that?s hosting an orgy made its way to the Internet (rather than being a deleted scene, Sherak and Mallick said it?s just a longer version of a scene that?s still in the film).
But it is "Middle Men?s" embedded trailer on hard-core porn sites that stands apart. The half-minute preview (which has neither nudity nor coarse language) has been playing on sites including Pornhub and Youporn, where programming categories include "Big Butt," "Fetish" and "European." Viewers who select "Stunning Kayden Kross Knows What You Want" can?t fast-forward through the "Middle Men" ad but can click on the spot, which redirects them to the film?s official website.
Kevin Blatt, who handles mainstream advertising sales for Pornhub and Youporn parent Manwin, says that the company?s sites generate more than 3 billion monthly page views and attract a largely male audience, a potentially great match not only for some movies but also sports and liquor advertisers.
"We have more traffic than God," says Blatt, who is best known for brokering Paris Hilton?s sex tape. "The only people to get more traffic than us are Google and Yahoo. And here, we pretty much have a captive audience."
About 12 percent of total websites are pornographic, and about 40 million Americans are regular porn site visitors. In the United States, annual adult-oriented Internet revenues are approaching $3 billion. "But nobody admits they watch it," Sherak says. "None of this is taboo to me anymore."
"The studios say, ?Oh God, we can?t market there,? " Mallick says. "Do they think (the users) are all sitting in a basement and are all pedophiles? They are average Americans. Adult entertainment is becoming much more mainstream."
In just a few weeks, Mallick says, the "Middle Men" trailer has been seen about 30 million times on online porn sites, and some 6 million people have clicked from the adult sites to the "Middle Men" website, where 4 million have watched the full trailer.
"It?s much more effective than television commercials," Mallick says.
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What a genius.
Of course the "Middle Men" movie which I did go see, was a travesty of negative stereotypes and lies about the adult industry.
Chris Mallick, the porn billing CEO, who tried to suggest in his ego movie that he left porn years ago, has thus far cowardly avoided this thread to defend himself or his company.
His silence here, after 10+ pages of concerned posts, speaks volumes about his real character and true concern for either his company or the adult industry.
In the movie, Mallick suggests that his partners (who still run Epoch) were decadent drug addicts while he was mostly a lily white businessman (who only backslided once with a single pornstar chick), who ended up leaving his the adult biz to get back together with his wife, while his partners ended up in jail due to their involvement in child porn.
The only problem with that story (well, not the only problem with the movie) is that in real life, Mallick's marriage ended in divorce, his partners never went to jail for child porn, and Chris never left the adult industry (although if ePassporte folds, it will be a fitting postscript to his movie bombing).
So tell us Nathan / Fabian, were you not paid for advertising "The Middle Men" 24/7 on your tube sites, or is Chris Mallick a liar (of course I mean, more than his movie lied)?
You are acting as if you are made of teflon simply because the FBI and Interpol have not arrested you
yet. Do you seriously think that you are not in their sights, given your involvement with Mansef, who is currently the subject of a DOJ lawsuit regarding money laundering (not to mention other lawsuits)?
I'm guessing that all that your posting in this thread accomplished was drawing more attention to yourself from the authorities monitoring you.
ADG