VIVID STUDIO INSIDER – JANUARY 2, 2004

VIVID STUDIO INSIDER – JANUARY 2, 2004

VIVID CONTINUES TO SURPRISE (SAYS AVN)

-- AVN magazine, the authoritative

information source for the adult industry, has a major

5,000-word profile of Vivid in the January 2004 issue

written by publisher-editor Tim Connelly.

The cover of the magazine features a group photo of

all of the Vivid Girls, with the

cover ”Still Vivid After All These Years: Two

decades later and they remain at the top of their

game.” Connelly writes that “Over the

last two decades, Vivid has led the way in adult:

they implemented the Hollywood star system; worked

to develop marketing concepts that even the most ‘mainstream’

companies would covet; and took their high-gloss product

from the shelves of adult bookstores to the pages

of Vanity Fair. Vivid is the most

talked about brand in the history of porn. Vivid continues

to surprise and impress. They touted their mainstream

acceptance, boasting, ‘Vivid, the Crossover

Company,’ and now celebrate their licensing

prowess with a campaign entitled ‘Vivid, Coming

To A Store Near You.’” The article is

available online at http://www.adultvideonews.com/.

VIVID IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT AEE –

If you’ve been waiting to meet the Vivid

Girls up close and person, your best opportunity

will be the Vivid Entertainment Group

booth (#6003) at the Adult Entertainment Expo

(AEE) at the Sands Expo Center

in Las Vegas on January 8th to 11th. Adult entertainment

superstar Tera Patrick makes her

debut as a Vivid Girl at AEE, joining Jenna

Jameson, Briana Banks, Sunrise

Adams, Savanna Samson, Mercedez,

Kira Kener and Tawny Roberts.

The girls will be on hand at the Vivid Booth to sign

autographs and pose for pictures with lucky fans and

help introduce the company's newest products - the

Vivid Comix series of graphic novels

and the Vivid Sophisticate Premium Hand Made

Cigars. A highlight of the week in Las Vegas

is the 2004 AVN Awards to be given

out Saturday January 10th at the Venetian Hotel. Vivid

has received 71 nominations, the most of any adult

producer this year, including Best Film, Best Director

for Paul Thomas, Best Actor, three

Best Supporting Actress nominations, Best Cinematography,

Best Screenplay, Best Editing and multiple nominations

for individual sex scenes. More than half of the nominations

in the film categories went to Vivid features and

the blockbuster film "Heart of Darkness"

received 14 nominations, eclipsing any other film.

Vivid Girl Jenna Jameson co-hosts

the show.

CLUB DE PLAYERS ROLLS OUT A FINE NEW VIVID

CIGAR -- Fine cigar maker Club De

Players has created a new line of Vivid

Sophisticate Premium Hand Made Cigars. Each

cigar is packaged with a four-color, two-sided limited

edition mini-poster of a beautiful Vivid Girl.

They’ll be introduced at the Adult Entertainment

Expo in Las Vegas January

8-11th. Vivid Sophisticates are hand-rolled

in the Cuban tradition by master cigar makers and

are blended with the finest aged Nicaraguan tobacco

nurtured from 100 percent Cuban seed tobacco. Each

cigar is finished with the famous Corojo

wrapper and packaged in a glass tube. There will be

16 different Vivid Girl poster inserts, with the first

featuring Tawny Roberts and Sunrise

Adams. The Vivid Sophisticate

cigars will be sold in gentlemen’s clubs, adult

retail outlets, traditional smoke shops and via the

Internet at vividcigars.com.

Says Michael P. Hachikian, president

of Club de Players, “The concept

is to enhance the club experience for men and women

who enjoy smoking the occasional fine cigar.”

VIVID COMIX LAUNCHES WITH VIVID

GIRLS COLLECTORS' ISSUE -- Vivid

Girls Volume One, a 48-page adults-only

comic book makes its debut at the Adult Entertainment

Expo in Las Vegas January

8 - 11th. The new graphic novel series created by

Avatar Press and distributed by Vivid

Comix is expected to become an instant collectors'

item. With stunning full-color cover art by Dave

Nestler, the square-bound, magazine-size

comic features erotic action and adventure never before

seen in a graphic novel. The stories feature characters

based on the popular Vivid Girls written by top comic

writers such as Steven Grant and

Antony (Courtyard) Johnston with

original art by Juan Jose (Robocop) Ryp,

Marco Turini and Carlos Fernando.

Steven Grant and other top writers

and artists including Sean Shaw and

John Layman will be on hand at the AEE to

meet fans and talk about the Vivid Girls comic book

series. Volume One will be available worldwide in

January 2004 at comic stores and adult retailers.

Preorder and online purchasing information is available

at www.vividcomix.com.

MERCEDEZ AND SUNRISE SIGN AT

THE L.A. CAR SHOW – Vivid Girls

Mercedez and Sunrise Adams

will be on hand Friday and Saturday (January 2-3)

at the Los Angeles Car Show to meet

fans and sign autographs. They will be at the Drivertise,

booth (#K340) to help promote the company’s

new detachable mobile billboards. Drivertise is the

premier supplier of the new version of efficient high-impact

advertising at a competitive price. Mercedez

and Sunrise will help introduce the

company and its “Advertise while you drive”

billboards that offer independent business owners

in any industry, the ability to promote their products

and services through the use of billboard signs that

easily attach to and detach from any vehicle size

without damage to the body’s surface