A celebrity sex tape is typically an amateur pornographic video recording involving one or more celebrity famous person(s) which has, intentionally or unintentionally, been made available publicly. Such video tapes
are often released without the consent of their subjects, and could
potentially damage celebrities' careers. In 1988, a sex tape caused
significant damage to Rob Lowe's career. In recent years, however, many celebrities have benefited from the publicity resulting from the release of a sex tape.
The release of Paris Hilton's sex tape in 2003 as well as Kim
Kardashian's in 2007 brought them to a new level of fame, leading to
magazine covers, book deals and reality TV series.
Director:
Scott Wheeler
Writers:
Jonathan Haug (screenplay),
Patrick Sheehan (screenplay)
Stars:
Jack Cullison, Howard Cai and Jonathan Brett
The surfacing of sex tapes has become so common that some are "leaked"
as a marketing tool to advance or establish a media career. A celebrity can fight the release in court to maintain deniability
while still enjoying the career benefits. In contrast, a celebrity may
take the route of openly releasing the tape and benefit directly from
royalties as well as indirectly from the publicity. The current public
acceptance of celebrities with sex tapes is speculated by Joe Levy,
executive editor of Rolling Stone,
to be due to the easy availability of pornography, as well as couples
more commonly making their own tapes due to the prevalence of video cameras.
Our friends at the Asylum have done it again with their new film
Celebrity Sex Tape (release date of February 14th, 2012 – just in time
for valentines day… I know what one lucky woman is getting this year!).
What the major studios fail to grasp about the sex comedy genre is that
getting big name celebrities is not the way to go.
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