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April 27, 2021 4:00 PMTech - By LOS ANGELES—Riley Reid tells AVN she has launched A.S.H, a marketing agency that specializes in managing creators’ content for OnlyFans. The 2016 AVN Female Performer of the Year from Miami wants to help creators earn more, keep more of what they’ve earned and to provide a “safe place” where they can feel confident about their content management. She says the idea for A.S.H—which stands for All Star Hustle—came about because she was becoming “fed up” with various agencies taking large percentages of creators’ revenue. Some of her closest fr...

Walks a wobbly fine line. TWITTER Sofia Kappel stars as a young Swedish woman keen to break into the adult film industry in L.A. in Ninja Thyberg's feature debut. A young woman arrives from a distant land in the capital of a certain entertainment industry and ascends the ladder of success, only to lose a bit of her soul on each rung of the climb. That, of course, is the plot of Showgirls, but it's not like Paul Verhoeven, or anyone who's written a version of Faust, ever patented the concept. This means Swedish writer-director Ninja Thyberg has room to put her own stamp on this classic rags-...

Sofia Kappel in Pleasure. Photograph: Courtesy of Sundance Institute The observational eye of Pleasure, an ambitious Sundance debut by the Swedish film-maker Ninja Thyberg, is so transactional, at once unsparing and recessive, that one might mistake the first 10 minutes of this drama on the American adult film business for a documentary. “Business or pleasure?” the customs agent asks 19-year-old Swedish visitor Bella Cherry as she enters the country with a dream to become a porn star. She answers, vacantly, “Pleasure,” bu...

'Pleasure' Review: A Raw and Real Inside Drama About the L.A. Porn Industry 'Pleasure' Review: A Raw and Real Inside Drama About the L.A. Porn Industry Ninja Thyberg's documentary-like drama, starring radiant newcomer Sofia Kappel as a young woman rising through the industry, takes the measure of life in the age of extreme porn as few movies have. Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Ninja Thyberg With: Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana Dearmond, Kendra Spade, Jason Toler, Lance Hart, Mark Spiegler. If you had to say what the biggest di...

Swedish Helmer-Writer Ninja Thyberg Spotlights the Adult Film Biz in 'Pleasure' Alissa Simon, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail After a prize-winning short of the same name, Swedish director-writer Ninja Thyberg’s “Pleasure,” a drama unfolding within the shadowy world of the adult film industry, premieres in Sundance and moves on to Goteborg and the Dragon competition for best Nordic film. What inspired the storyline of “Pleasure?” More from Variety I’ve been working on the topic for a very long time. I made a short film with the same title. It premiered in Cannes in 2013 and Sun...