A Press Release Two Hours Before The Event…WTF

Mike you know not gone be on Digital Playground christmas card list ever sent they got bought out buy Manwin. Now Manwin runs Digital Playground all press releases gone go through Avn becuase they control them buy owen them. Manwin idiocy infect the companys they run owen get see that frist hand Digital Playground.

The Story Behind the Digital Playground Buy Out
By MikeSouth
January 18th, 2012

Two weeks ago I broke the story that Digital Playground had been purchased by Manwin, the parent company of Brazzers and owner of controversial tube sites. A lot of people have been asking “Why did DP sell?” I also heard over the last year ” Why isn’t DP doing Island Fever any more? Why haven’t they started Pirates 3??

Turns out the reasons are all tied together….Read On…

Digital Playground began in 1993 as an adult software company, they broke ground and set the standard for interactive porn utilizing multi angle DVD in particular. The founders, Samantha and Joone were married and worked hard to make Digital ( DP) a household name in porn circles. Their first contract girl was a busty brunette who called herself Rocky Roads.

In those days everyone in porn was successful, the public couldn’t get enough product and DP had a plan.

When the company was founded Sam and Joone were set up as equal partners, both had to sign off on anything the company did, like big budget movies.

The company lasted longer than the marriage. The divorce was amicable in the beginning aand DP launched two big budget but successful brands, one was Island Fever, shot on location in places like Fiji and Bora Bora. The second was a joint venture with Adam and Eve called Pirates that rode the heels of Disneys “Pirates of the Caribbean” straight to success. In the second installment of Pirates DP disassociated themselves from Adam and Eve,

DP pretty much cornered the marked on really high end porn, with lucrative cable deals, pay per view and even R rated versions of some of its movies the money was coming in and they are one of very few companies in porn that are still making good money.

So why no more Pirates or Island Fever and such? The current top end of their production is just relatively standard porn packaged as higher end product.

Over time and for reasons I won’t speculate on, the divorce became MUCH less than amicable, particularly over the last couple of years the fighting has been extremely bitter and even though Joone desperately wanted to continue with the Island Fever and Pirates franchises, Samantha refused to sign off on them, relegating DP to the standard porn fare we have seen from them over the last few years.

Enter Manwin.

With Joone and Samantha hopelessly deadlocked on any new big budget productions the only way he was going to further his passion of big budget porn features was if someone else held the purse strings, and that meant selling the company, for a good deal less than it was worth I am told.

Manwin is positioning themselves to own the cable and high end market and buying Digital Playground is the jewel in that crown, it also breaks the deadlock between Joone and Sam. You noticed in the announcements that they are keeping Digital Playground as is, including Joone as a Director. Now he will be free to make the movies he wants to because those are the movies that Manwin wants to make, so in addition to buying DP, they bought Joone as a director.

Now you know the REST of the story…..