VCX GARNERS EMPIRE AWARDS' BEST CLASSIC DVD FOR JOHNNY WADD

LAS VEGAS — Golden Age powerhouse VCX racked up another industry accolade from online retailer Adult DVD Empire's Empire Awards, adding its Best Classic DVD trophy for "Johnny Wadd" to the company mantle. The win comes on the heels of the company's impressive showing at the '09 XBiz Awards, where it garnered the Outstanding Achievement in Erotica Preservation honor.

Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the true classics of adult's Golden Age, VCX's "Johnny Wadd" beat out four other nominees — including one of the company's own Cal-Vista Classics, "Eruption," and Philip Mond's "Zazel" — for the Empire Award's Best Classic DVD win.

The company also led the category's nominations with nods for "Johnny Wadd" and "Eruption."

"Johnny Wadd," shot by adult cinema legend Bob Chinn, is the first in a series of noir-inspired detective movies featuring porn's most recognized male performer, John Holmes, as the title's lead.

VCX not only located an original film print of the movie, but restored it during the DVD authoring process and presented it for the first time on home video. This outstanding disc also features a director's commentary, as well as an in-depth interview with Chinn about the making of "Johnny Wadd" and an oral history of adult moviemaking in the '70s.

The Cal-Vista Classic "Eruption" also stars Holmes in another dark, Jim Thompson-inspired tale of an insurance salesman entangled in a web of seduction and deceit spun by Penthouse Pet Leslie Bovee.

This week the company will bring three new more highly anticipated titles, for the first time on DVD from the Cal-Vista Classic acquisition: "Pleasure Palace," starring the always seductive Serena, "Lorelei" with Kay Parker and "The Other Side of Julie" featuring Suzanne French. Also scheduled for release next month is the critically acclaimed "The Joy of Fooling Around," named Best Foreign Film of 1979 with the incomparable Monique duPrez — described as

"unquestionably the hottest, most vivacious erotic sex symbol you've ever seen on the screen — period!"