 DIGITAL PLAYGROUND DOMINATES 2008 EMPIRE AWARDS WITH 10 TROPHIES
“Pirates II”, “Babysitters” & “Cheerleaders” Take Half the Empire Awards, Including Best Overall DVD, Viewer's Choice & Best Selling!
February 21, 2009 --- VAN NUYS, Calif. --- The 2008 Empire Award results were revealed and Digital Playground, the leading XXX studio received 10 awards in a very elite 21 categories. Premiere online adult retailer Adult DVD Empire's annual awards are a direct indication of their consumers' preferences, making its awards coveted in the adult industry. Ground-breaking director Joone's blockbuster movie “Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge” garnered awards for Best Overall DVD, Viewer's Choice (with over 40% of the fan vote), Best Blu-ray™, Best DVD Extras, Best DVD Menu Design, Best DVD Commentary, Best DVD Audio Quality, and the Editor's Choice Award. Acclaimed director Robby D.'s mega-hit “Babysitters” is the Best Selling DVD, while his followup “Cheerleaders” has the Best DVD Video Quality of 2008. “Digital Playground has always been a leader when it comes to quality, but' Pirates II' was so overwhelmingly above and beyond what any other studio this year. It's perhaps no shock that they swept most of the awards,” says Shannon Nutt, Adult DVD Empire Editorial Director.
To view the complete list of awards, visit www.EmpireAwards.com
For more information about “Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge”, visit www.PiratesXXX.com
Shannon Nutt adds, “The fact that' Babysitters', which was released in 2007, was Adult DVD Empire's best-selling title of 2008 shows what kind of staying power and popularity the release has had. Likewise', Cheerleaders' was released very early in 2008, so the fact that voters remembered the pristine quality of its video is another nod towards the superiority of Digital Playground's releases.”
Samantha Lewis, Digital Playground’s CEO says, “The Empire Awards are an accurate indication of consumers' opinions of our titles. I'd like to thank all our fans who voted for' Pirates II' for the Viewer's Choice and helped make' Babysitters' the Best Selling DVD. Thank you to Jeff Rix, Mike Barry, and Shannon Nutt, as well as the entire Empire staff for their continued support of Digital Playground.”
Joone, the writer and director of “Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge” states, “Digital Playground is a filmmaker's company, so we always pay great attention to every cinematic detail. It's an honor to receive every award in a technical category.” Robby D. adds, “'Babysitters' was the first of the vocation series, so it's great to see how many horny people out there have embraced it.”
Digital Playground's previous Empire Awards include: Best Overall DVD Studio (2001, 2004, 2005), Best Feature (“Forbidden Tales”, “Rush”), Viewer's Choice (“Forbidden Tales”, “Island Fever 3”, “Jesse Jane: Erotique”, “Pirates”, “Rush”), Best Selling DVD (“Island Fever”, “Island Fever 3”, “Pirates”), Best Overall DVD (“Pirates”), Best All Sex DVD (“Island Fever”, “Island Fever 3”, “Island Fever 4”, “Jesse Jane: Erotique”), Best Video Quality (“Island Fever”, “Island Fever 4”, “Pirates”, “Rush”), Best DVD Commentary (“Island Fever 3”, “Rush”), Best DVD Video (“Island Fever 3”), Best DVD Audio (“Loaded”, “Pirates”, “Rush”, “Babysitters”), Editor's Choice (“No Limits”, “Pirates”), Best DVD Menu Design (“Pirates”, “Babysitters”), Best DVD Extras (“All Star”), Best Interactive DVD (“Virtual Sex with Devon”, “Virtual Sex with Janine”, “Virtual Sex with Jesse Jane”, “Virtual Sex with Teagan Presley”, “Virtual Sex with Tera Patrick”), Best HD DVD (“Babysitters”).
“Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge” stars Digital Playground’s beautiful contract girls Jesse JaneŽ, Shay Jordan™, Katsuni, Stoya™, Riley Steele™ and Gabriella Fox™. The film costars the talents of BellaDonna, Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Brianna Love, Abbey Brooks, Shawna Lenee, Rhylee Richards, Brea Lynn, Shyla Stylez, and Veronica Rayne. Evan Stone, Tommy Gunn, and Steven St. Croix reprise their groundbreaking roles from the original “Pirates”. The film also includes industry studs Manuel Ferrara, James Deen, Marco Banderas, Mick Blue, Ben English, and Charles Dera.
All hands are on deck for the epic, blockbuster “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge”, directed by award-winner Joone, and produced by Joone and his business partner Samantha Lewis. The film released on DVD on September 27 and Blu-ray on November 7.
To download the box art for “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge”, visit
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To download the box art for “Cheerleaders”, visit
http://www.digitalplayground.com/press/downloads3/Cheerleaders_BlueRay_FC.jpg
To download the box art for “Babysitters”, visit
http://stream.digitalplayground.com/press/downloads3/Babysitters_BluRay_FC.jpg
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About Digital Playground:
Digital Playground is the world leader in adult filmmaking and interactive formats boasting the largest HD library available. Since the Company’s inception in 1993, Digital Playground has earned almost 300 awards, currently garners more than 80% of high definition sales within the adult market, and is a leading provider of Blu-ray™ titles, with over 25% of the market. Female owned and operated, Digital Playground emphasizes quality first, employing fastidiously high production values in erotic film for women, men and couples. Digital Playground’s commitment to excellence, innovative technology, brilliant full-length productions and exclusive Contract Stars are the secrets to its success and makes Digital Playground the most highly demanded supplier of content for hotel, IPTV, cable, pay-per-view and mobile networks worldwide. For more information visit www.digitalplayground.com
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