Hey Mickey, You're Not So Fine

Print production of porn films is a problem that producers haven't had to consider for nearly two decades, reports a recent article in Variety. While the occasional porn pic is still shot on film, they haven't been projected on a big screen for more than a decade, thanks to the VCR. "The one exception was  Blue Movie, but we sent the negatives to a lab in Italy and it was for theaters in Switzerland and Germany," says head of Wicked Pictures, Steven Vlottes.  "Wicked never made prints."   So although FotoKem and Technicolor both declined to produce a remastered print of Deep Throat for Arrow Productions head, Raymond Pistol, he eventually found a lab to make prints in time for their February 25 premiere, but he's not saying which lab that was.

For Technicolor, Pistol has nothing but disdain, noting that Disney is a major client and the lab may have feared offending the Mouse House. "Aren't they the one that had penises in children's films and don't they do the Touchstone films, which have plenty of nudity? I'm not the hypocrite." 

Opening weekend of "Deep Throat" will include latenight screenings at Laemmle Sunset 5 in Los Angeles (which is also running "Inside Deep Throat") and Laemmle's Colorado in Pasadena as well as engagements at Chicago's Music Box Theater, the Roxy Cinema in Philadelphia and a theater to be named in New York. The Roxy Theater in San Francisco will also screen "Deep Throat," but as a regular engagement.