Gawker Media’s publisher Nick Denton, now routinely dubbed “blog impresario” in the press, has poineered another blog revenue stream: productization. Sure, lots of other blogs use Cafe Press to hawk mugs and t-shirts, but Gawker has now launched Fleshbot Films, a line of erotica…er, excuse me: porn, to complement its porn review blog Fleshbot. First release: Necromania, the last film (and first porn film, set in a sex therapy center/funeral parlor) by weirdo director of B classics Ed Wood (most remembered for Plan 9 from Outer Space and imortalized by Johnny Depp in Tim Bourton’s film Ed Wood). Denton rather stumbled into the rights for the long-lost film but apparently thinks it’s a good opportunity for his blog’s quirky audience. Amazon is already accepting pre-orders for the item. The whole story of how the deal came to pass is in this week’s New Yorker Talk of the Town.
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