Pierre Woodman
| Pierre Woodman | |
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 Pierre Woodman at Work in Cape Town | |
| Born | April 29, 1963 |
| Nationality | French |
Pierre Woodman (born April 29, 1963 in Auvergne, France) is a pornographic film director. He is the creator of more than 65 pornographic films, more than 2,000 hardcore scenes, around 1,500 photosets and more than 7,000 castings.
Early life
Woodman began working at 16, taking such jobs as bartender, salesman and store clerk. He joined the army at age 17, and later became a policeman. In 1986, he started a career as a fashion and TV photographer. In 1989, he took part in launching the magazine Hot Video, as a reporter. Beginning in 1992, he worked for the Private Media Group, Inc., for which he made several big budget movies, such as The Pyramid (1.2 million USD), Tatiana (600,000 USD), Riviera (450,000 USD).
Movies
In 1997, he launched his series "Casting X" (see below), which is now the biggest selling series in the X-rated category in the world.[citation needed]
In 1999, faced with a wave of "Gonzo" genre videos, Woodman began to produce and release his Superfuckers series for Private, which ran to 12 Chapters. At the end of the year, he received an invitation from Larry Flynt, owner of LFP, Inc. and a millionaire publisher of the magazine Hustler, the second largest adult magazine periodical in the US after Playboy.[citation needed] Hustler was on the verge of bankruptcy and Flynt knew he needed a video department to survive. He asked Woodman to create a series similar to Private and in 2000, Flynt signed a contract with Woodman for 5 million USD for five years.[citation needed] Woodman began Chapter 13 of Superfuckers for LFP. But unlike Berth Milton, Jr., owner of Private, Flynt spent little on advertising, relying instead solely on the Hustler name and word of mouth to sell products. This bothered Woodman, who made a few big budget movies, such as Brazilian Snake (2001) (520,000 USD), Brazilian Snake 2 (2002) and Manipulation (2004) (430,000 USD), but ultimately disappointed by the lack of promotion of the products, Woodman refused to sign a new contract for LFP in 2005.
In 2004, after playing himself in the big-screen Spanish film Yo Puta, alongside Denise Richards and Daryl Hannah, he did several photo-shoots for various fashion magazines, such as Vogue and Blast.
Woodman then launched a program affiliation on the Internet called "Spider-Cash,"[1] to distribute its films in the form of video sequences, after Berth Milton, head of Private, asked Woodman to return to work for him in 2005.
Woodman made a trilogy Sex City, a "porn-remake" that "borrows" much of the storyline of Frank Miller's Sin City, including the use of black-and-white photography, with splashes of color inserted throughout the film. Woodman's Sex City was filmed entirely in high definition, with a budget of 540,000 Euros. The first part was released in May 2006. After five weeks, the film became the best selling in the history of Private, even taking the lead in sales in the U.S. on June 5, 2006.
Nevertheless, Woodman announced in June 2006, his departure (for the second time) from Private Media Group, and the undertaking his own production and distribution company, Woodman Entertainment,[2] based in Barcelona, where Private Media is also based. From there, he directed a mega-production, a remake of the film Excalibur, with a budget of 800,000 Euros. This film, titled Xcalibur, was released in May 2007 and draws on an exceptionally large cast of 75 actors and 250 extras, a first in the world of porn.
Woodman continues to work in the fashion world, doing photo-sessions for big-name magazines (Blast magazine cover and layout Sept. 2006) and discovering fashion models from his castings. Some of his fashion models have gone on to join some of the top modeling agencies, such as Alla Krivocheeva for Elite or recently one of the finalists for Miss Hungary 2005.
"Castings X" productions
Woodman started with his supposed "casting" film series for Private in 1992. According to Woodman's marketing, he claims there was no explicit commercial motivation behind them, but eventually this is how the "Castings X" and "Behind the Scenes" series began. Woodman's marketing claims he recorded video only as a protection against any allegations that might be made of sexual assault, a precaution he thought especially appropriate after boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of rape in an Indianapolis hotel room in 1992.[3]
With the breakup of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe became a new center of pornographic production. Attractive adult actresses were available for a fraction of the cost of American performers. Since 1992, Woodman has spent considerable time in Eastern Europe. This is how he introduced some of the biggest stars in the porn world to Western audiences. Woodman's "Castings X" DVDs,[4] which began to be released in October 1997. They were released by Private between 1997 and 2003, when they began to be issued by Hustler under the label of "Hustler Casting Couch". In April 2008, Woodman announced that Woodman Entertainment would begin new issues of the Casting X series in June 2008.
The scenes are typically filmed in hotel rooms, usually in Central Europe. The film scenarios present the actresses as if they do not really know what the fake porn director does. The storyline of the film presents Woodman as showing the girls a Private magazine or some pornographic images and invites them to do something similar. [3] Many starlets became famous for their contract with Private, which includes scenes for the "Castings X" series, including Silvia Saint, Alexa May, Tania Russof, Judith Fox, Anita Blond, Monica Sweet, Monique Covét, Lenka Gaborova, Cassandra Wilde, Dora Venter, Claudia Ferrari, Cayenne Klein, Anetta Keys, Eve Angel, Nikky Andersson, Angel Dark etc... In 2006 he contracted Nessa Devil, Divinity Love and the Czech Playmate Caylian Curtis
Woodman has already released 103 DVDs from his "Casting X" series, featuring mostly European actresses. In an interview, he claimed to have more than 7,000 scenes in stock. In 2009 HBO TV has made a 52mn report about his life called "Pierre Woodman Story".[5]
Personal life
He has been married three times and is the father of two children. He is divorced from the Russian/Latvian porn star Tania Russof in 2000 and since 2002, Woodman has lived with the photo model Sophie Paris. He is the father of French writer Alexandra Geyser.[6]
"Woodman" is a pseudonym, which comes from his childhood when he lived in the country and being very good at climbing up trees, his classmates at school called him "the man of the woods," which later became shortened to "Woodman". When he started in the entertainment world, he started signing as Pierre "Woodman." In the United States, his name has a double meaning, with strong sexual overtones: "wood" is understood as "erection" in expressions such as "morning wood". This double entendre was first explained to him by his friend Jenna Jameson, when they first met in Las Vegas in 1995.
See also
Media related to Pierre Woodman at Wikimedia Commons
Notes
External links
- Pierre Woodman at the Internet Movie Database
- Pierre Woodman's castings
- Pierre Woodman's official website
- Hustler Article
- Pierre Woodman Audio Interview
- Digital Podcast interview with Pierre Woodman