Tucson- I spoke today with Arnold Stein of Old Pueblo Distribution in Tucson. Stein’s is a rapidly growing company which started about a year ago. Previous to that, Stein had been with Sam Xavier of Big Top Video, and was the right hand man over there about 7 years. He had answered an ad and quickly became the warehouse manager. “Then Sam brought me slowly into sales.” Stein is quick to call Xavier his “mentor”.
“I thank that man for everything,” says Stein. “One thing led to another, and last September I left Big Top. There was no hard feelings. It was an amicable leave on both sides. And it was something I needed to do to grow.” Stein said he had an idea for a Latina line but everyone had jumped on the bandwagon so quickly, he got pushed out of the market. “Basically with Hustler and all these companies coming out with their lines so fast, it knocked me off the face of the earth.”
Another thing that complicated Stein’s getting off the ground with a Latina line is that many of the girls he was dealing with didn’t have passports. “They’re in Mexico and we were going across the border, shooting about four hours south of the border,” Stein says. “I was lucky if these girls understood what America was. But that’s the way it evolved. There’s only a certain amount of Latina girls here. In Tucson we have tons of Latin girls, but we’d get only maybe two a week and that was a great week. We just weren’t getting the girls that looked good enough. That was an issue so we kind of pulled away from it.”
Stein then hooked up with Aria Giovanni. “She did a great movie with me called Meridians of Passion,” he says. “It was an all-girl feature and a really great film, doing unbelievably well for us six months later. We released that in April. We’re now in our third press with that.” Stein said he hopes to be following that one up with an all-redhead line that’s being shot in about three weeks. “No one does redheads- I’m amazed by that.” I suggested that it was probably even harder to come up with natural redheads than pretty Latinas. Knowing that, Stein said he’ll be happy if he can squeeze out two volumes. “But real redheads. I think it’s a different look. It’s an issue finding girls with natural, redhair.”
Now that Stein’s had a chance to grow, he’s got Brittany Andrews on board along with Porno Dan, Matrix Content, Hellbound Productions with Lisa Sparxxx. Then there’s Pink Visual, a web-based company. “So we’ve kind of spread ourselves out quite well in getting in each and every little niche,” he says. “We also work with these companies in post production. We work hand-in-hand with production value and we know how to handle those aspects so we can keep quality high and across the board. We’re putting out a lot of new releases- at least one a week.”
Stein said next month his company will be releasing two titles per week. And by January probably three titles a week. “We’re growing. The first phase was to pick up the amateur guy which was Porno Dan. he’s an east coast-based wacko [Stein says this in a good sense] who really films every day for us. [Think of Ugly George who terrorized New York City years ago.]
“This is his life,” says Stein. “Porno Dan will call me on a Thursday. How ya doin’? There’s a gangbang going on downstairs. Okay, is that normal? That’s this week’s adventures.” So far Stein has come out with three of Porno Dan’s titles. “We’ve also got three more at the replicators and another five in the can. We have plenty of his product coming out and it’s doing real well.”
Stein said he’s also just picked up Lisa Sparxxx recently. “She came to us with a blowjob line called The Head Clinic. It’s as nasty and hardcore a line as you can possibly get.” I asked Stein about the possibility of Sparxxx winning the Polish gangbang. “I’m dealing with Pink Press,” says Stein. “Pink Press is obviously doing their whole deal in Poland and Europe but I’m going to be handling American distribution. We’re excited. Hopefully she does win. I’m waiting on pins and needles. It’s pretty exciting.” According to Stein, Sparxxx was selected by Pink Press for the event because Sparxxx not only had the credibility but the ability to handle large numbers of guys without thinking twice. “Not every girl can do that. What has she done 35 gangbangs already? We have two of them for her already shot. One has 14 big black guys; the other had 17. Her first title is at the replicator and is called The Head Clinic. It’s fully oral but unbelievably hardcore with her and a couple of other girls in there.”
Stein says along with Porno Dan, Brittany Andrews then came into the fold. “They’re very close. And, being with Big Top, I knew Brittany for years. Once she realized where I was, she jumped on board. We’re releasing her new movie which is called Bitch Boys. It’s absolutely hysterical.” The concept’s very simple, says Stein. It’s Andrews and a strap-on. “And a bunch of very unlucky guys,” he laughs. “Brittany’s insane- you should see what she’ll be doing in Vegas for us.”
Stein’s running a contest where the winner will get a free trip to Vegas, along with tickets to the award show and the AEE. “They’ll get to be Brittany’s bitch,” he explains. “She’ll put a leash and collar on them and walk them into the show on all fours. And she’s going to sign autographs on Saturday with this guy underneath her. She couldn’t believe that I was willing to let her do that. I’m very excited about that one. We think it’s going to be hysterical and she’s ecstatic. We’re starting that contest and will announce the winner in December.”
Stein, 28, said Old Pueblo’s growing very quickly. “We’re dealing with all the distributors of course and we finally started expanding world wide by hitting up all the European distributors. I’ll have my brokers working at the Berlin show trying to get more distribution.
“We also have a lot of close ties with the Internet,” adds Stein. “That’s companies like Matrix and Pink Visual. Matrix content is basically the largest content house online for solos and glamour and masturbation. Whoever you name, they have them- Alexis Amore, Tawny Roberts. They’ve been doing that about five years and never touched a DVD in their life.
“One thing led to another and we started talking,” Stein continues. “They had 500 hours worth of footage that people would die for. So we started releasing that and it’s been going unbelievably well; that led us to Pink Visuals which is a local company in Tucson. They run about 80 different websites- 15 of them are reality-based. Every week I now come out with a new reality-based DVD based on a website.”