Private Media Group
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Private Media Group, Inc. is a Swedish production and distribution company that distributes adult entertainment via print publications, DVDs, and the Internet. It first published a magazine called Private in Stockholm in 1965.
OriginsEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Private magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore magazine by Berth Milton Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton Jr. took over and started to produce movies and internet content, taking Private public soon after.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Product linesEdit
The firm provides content through DVD, Video on Demand (VOD), Internet Protocol television (IPTV), PSP, mobile and magazines. It supplies adult entertainment films to thousands of major hotels around the world through their Hotel Pay Per View services. The company also runs the adult channels Private TV (Europe) and Private Gold (Latin America)
In 1998 the company launched Private Circle,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a designer clothing label, at the Cannes Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The label would later be changed to Private Clothing and a boutique would be opened in Los Angeles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In August 2008 Private Media Group announced it had established an alliance with Marc Dorcel to collaborate in the home video market. The collaboration started with a three-year DVD distribution agreement for France.
The firm's 2009 acquisitions of video on demand companies Gamelink LLC and Sureflix, and the ecommerce technology firm eLine LLC established it as a leading adult content and distribution company in the digital media sector.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In June 2014 the firm announced the released of its full archive of images and (film and video) scenes dating back to the 1960s when Private magazine launched in Sweden. The material is available via a website, PrivateClassics.com.<ref name=2014AVNFullArchive>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
MoviesEdit
Private is known for high-budget, adult movies, such as the two-part series Millionaire, directed by Alessandro del Mar, with a reported budget of $1.9 million.<ref>Private U.S.A. Sets Release Date For Multimillion-Dollar Feature, Millionaire Template:Webarchive, AVN Media Network, 3 September 2004</ref> In the last few decades, Private has earned more than 130 adult industry awards.Template:Citation needed The film Millionaire alone earned 16 Venus Award nominations in 2004.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Best-selling releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, Millionaire and Chateau.
In 1999, Private released The Uranus Experiment, a three-part pornographic science fiction video that is notable for part of it having been shot in microgravity during a parabolic flight, representing the first time a sex act had been carried out in zero-g conditions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
AwardsEdit
The following is a selection of some of the major awards Private films have won:
- 1994 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Private Video Magazine 1)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 1995 AVN Award – Best Counting Video Series (Private Video Magazine)<ref name=AVN>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- 1995 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Virgin Treasures 1 & 2)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 1996 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (The Tower, Parts 1, 2 & 3)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 1996 AVN Award – Most Outrageous Sex Scene (Private Video Magazine 20)Template:Dead link
- 1997 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (The Pyramid, Parts 1, 2 & 3)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 1998 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (The Fugitive 1 & 2)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 1999 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Tatiana 1, 2 & 3)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2000 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Amanda's Diary 2)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2001 AVN Award – Best Foreign Vignette Series (Private XXX)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2003 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Private Gladiator)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2004 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (The Scottish Loveknot)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2006 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Robinson Crusoe on Sin Island)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2007 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Porn Wars: Episode 1)<ref name=AVN/>Template:Dead link
- 2007 Eroticline Award - Best European Film (The Sexual Adventures of Little Red)Template:Citation needed
- 2009 AVN Award – Best BDSM Release (House of Sex and Domination)<ref name=AVN09>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- 2009 AVN Award – Best Foreign Feature (Jason Colt, Mystery of the Sexy Diamonds)<ref name=AVN09/>Template:Dead link
- 2017 VENUS Award – Best International Label<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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