Studio 2000

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Studio 2000
Private
Industry Gay pornography
Founded1993
Defunct2011
Headquarters San Francisco, California, Los Angeles
Products Pornographic films and sex toys

Studio 2000 was a gay pornographic film studio based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1992 by producer Scott Masters and director John Travis. It was then owned by two former Falcon Entertainment executives who purchased the studio in April 2006 upon the retirement of Masters and Travis. AEBN acquired the studio in 2011 and currently owns it. [1]

Scott Masters is a gay pornographic film director and studio owner active in adult film since the mid-1960s.

Falcon Entertainment, a United States company based in San Francisco, California, is one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography.

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History

Studio 2000 was founded in 1992. Masters and Travis had worked previously for themselves and for every major gay adult entertainment studio. With Studio 2000, they hoped to create an environment where they could create top quality, highly entertaining works while working for themselves. Takedown, one of their first films together, was a success and featured Adam Hart and a number of other popular models in a movie described by Bijou World [2] as "bring[ing] plot and characterization back to porno without losing any of the sexual heat." By 1995, Masters and Travis had incorporated, built an office and hired full-time office and shipping staff. They also moved toward a more consistent production schedule, releasing first six and later 12 productions per year (some of which were produced overseas and released under the label Studio 2000 International), a template that held until they retired. A high point was reached in 2000 when Dream Team earned Studio 2000 their first (and, to date, their only) Best Gay Video trophy from the GAYVN Awards, as well as the award for Best Romance Video from the Grabby Awards.

Grabby Awards are presented annually in Chicago to honor work done in the gay adult erotic video industry. The awards are sponsored by Grab Magazine, a free biweekly that describes itself as "Chicago's premier LGBT publication." The Grabby Awards and Grab Magazine are owned and operated by Grabbys, LLC. The awards were owned until 2009 by Gay Chicago Magazine.

Scott Masters

Scott Masters is a gay pornographic film director and studio owner active in adult film since the mid-1960s. Masters used the pseudonym "Robert Walters" [3] when he founded Nova Studios. He later shuttered Nova Studio and became head of production at Catalina Video. In 1992, he co-founded gay adult film studio Studio 2000 with fellow director John Travis.

Gay pornography homosexual pornographic content

Gay pornography is the representation of sexual activity between males. Its primary goal is sexual arousal in its audience. Softcore gay pornography also exists; it at one time constituted the genre, and may be produced as beefcake pornography for heterosexual female and homosexual male consumption.

Film Sequence of images that give the impression of movement

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Film director Person who controls the artistic and dramatic aspects of a film production

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John Travis

John Travis is gay pornographic film director and former movie studio owner whose career began in the early 1970s in San Francisco with 8mm loops. [4] He began directing for Falcon Entertainment, Brentwood Studios, Huge Video and Catalina Video. He formed Studio 2000 in 1992 with producer Scott Masters. Travis is best known for discovering and grooming Jeff Stryker, a popular and widely recognized gay adult performer. [5]

San Francisco Consolidated city-county in California, US

San Francisco, officially City and County of San Francisco and colloquially known as SF, San Fran, or "The City", is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 883,305 residents as of 2018. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is the 12th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States, with 4,729,484 people in 2018. With San Jose, it forms the fifth most populous combined statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.

Jeff Stryker American pornographic actor

Jeff Stryker is an American porn star who has starred in bisexual, gay, and straight adult films. He lives in California.

Notes

  1. ↑ Pardon, Rhett. "Falcon/Raging Stallion Acquires Studio 2000." XBIZ Newswire. XBIZ 26 Apr. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2012 <http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=133314>
  2. ↑ See http://www.bijouworld.com for Bijou's 1992 review of "Takedown."
  3. ↑ According to Barry Knight, co-founder of Jaguar Productions, the director of the hardcore gay adult film Greek Lightning was Warren Stephens, who directed films under the name Robert Walters. See: Douglas, "Gay Film Heritage: Jaguar Productions, Part 2," Manshots, August 1996. Scott Masters acknowledges that he used the pseudonym Robert Walters when he directed his early films, which include Greek Lightning. See Douglas, "Behind the Camera: Scott Masters, Part 1," Manshots, November 1997.
  4. ↑ See Lawrence, Doug, "The Films of John Travis," December 2000.
  5. ↑ See Lawrence, Doug, "The Films of John Travis," December 2000.

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