Can the human brain even deal with the concept of how much money internet porn makes? It’s really quite staggering. Everyone has looked at internet porn, and a decent percentage of those people (everyone) have at some point or another actually paid for it too (come one, we all know you were watching a threesome with pig tails scene before you surfed over here).
That’s why I’ve always thought it was weird that there haven’t been more more movies about the porn industry in the online age then there have been up till now. Last year there was a terrific little comedy (at least I thought it was terrific) called “The Moguls” with Jeff Bridges, Joe Pantoliano and Ted Danson. Now we’ve got Zack and Miri make a porno opening soon, and now we hear about Middle Men.
The folks over at Cinematical give us this:
Set to be a comedy, the film was said to follow some normal dude who ends up in the center of that biz we call adult entertainment during the early days of Internet porn (mid-90s, I guess?). James Caan, Gabriel Macht, Peter Stormare, and Rachael Taylor have signed on for the film, which will star Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi — all in yet-to-be-disclosed parts. The film is also sounding a wee bit different these days. Yes, it’s still about some regular guy — a “straight-and-narrow businessman who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment.” But then there’s a bit of an insane twist. He finds “himseld in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents, and international terrorists.”
James Caan in a movie about the world of internet porn? Sweet! Sign me up! I’m not sure I like the sounds of the whole “Russian mobsters and Federal agents” angle though… sounds like it’s trying to do too much. But I haven’t read the script so it could all work together nicely.
Personally, if I was going to make a movie about the world of internet porn, I think it would be about a guy named Eric. In the first scene, Eric just gets home from a long day at work. He has something to eat and grabs a beer… then he sits in front of his computer and watches online porn for the next 90 minutes. Then I’d have the credits roll. O…S…C…A…R!!!!!!
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Just realized I didn’t see it said comedy :-P
You may ignore my previous comment…
Why should it seem weird that porn hasn’t been ‘covered’ in the mainstream?
In North America live (especially in the US), in a contradictory world. America was ‘founded’ by Puritans, it now has an adult industry so huge as to be almost impossible to get even ballpark figures on…but it would surprise most people just how large the revenues are. So there’s this back-and-forth about it. The moralists decry it…while everyone else craves it. America has been and continues to a ‘right-leaning’ country…yet there’s this elephant in the room. (Getting a hummer.)
Porn exists for masturbation. (I’m reducing things greatly here.) That connotation alone makes it a less-than-savoury topic of discussion…despite the fact that almost anyone you come in contact with on a daily basis has had some contact of their own with porn at some point.
Besides, it’s like sports: a great sports film isn’t strictly about the sport. It’s a great story set against the backdrop of the sport. How can you deal with porn in this way? If it has porn elements…it’s porn. And therefore, not a mainstream film. (Never mind the fact that most porn is fatuous and spectacle-filled.)
I have my own site where I publish things-erotical. I’ve garnered almost 300,000 hits in one year, with no advertising, so I know of the appeal of porn. But that doesn’t make it fodder for the masses. At all.
Ah, nevermind about The Amateurs/The Moguls comment. I see The Amateurs was a Can/Us title, while The Moguls was the worldwide title… Cheers…
John
The movie sounds interesting and I’m as surprised as you as to the lack of porn available in the mainstream, especially considering how much it generates. Meanwhile, mainstream tries HARD to seduce us with breasts and ass (and more recently men hanging themselves out there – SHUDDER!) but it always seemed odd to me that PORN wasn’t more of a topic, especially with the influence it has on movies mainstream puts out…
BTW, the movie with Jeff Bridges is actually called The Amateurs. It’s a really smart little film.
Um… Rodney beat you to it man, by like a month:
https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/09/luke-wilson-and-giovanni-ribisi-are-middle-men
Yes Yamo. We need more Michael Cera in movies. His versatility is unquestionable. We need Michael Cera to take on the roles of other movies too. Michael Cera can be the awkward student/wizard in the next Harry Potter, or an awkward mutant in a new X-men movie, or an awkward pirate-in-training as part of a new romance storyline in the new PotC movie. See how well he fits with each of these examples. Everybody needs to start asking for more Michael Cera. A vote for Michael Cera is a vote for Jesus.
Michael Cera sould be cast to him play a kid looking up porn. And when he see the the woman Breast he will just say “oh….hey” or how ever he says it in his movies.
Oscar for best actress goes to…Belladonna
…I actually once ran into her on the street in Melbourne. They had the game expo right next door to the adult film expo…can totally imagine all the nerds having a ‘blast’ that week.
But Luke Wilson?? I can see it…but I’ve never been a fan of his roles. Best thing I’ve seen him in was Old School and The Royal Tenenbaums. After having seen him pull out his smirk and flash it on everything that moves in the comedies, I couldn’t take him seriously in Vacancy…
…so will this be a comedy or something that might come close to Boogie Nights?