Elegant Angel Productions has unveiled the new volume of its annual series, Performers Of The Year 2010, scheduled for release on Jan. 19. The movie will be a two-disc set featuring seven scenes, and starring the girls that Elegant Angel feels are the biggest names of the year: Tori Black, Kristina Rose, Jenna Haze, Julia Ann, Kagney Linn Karter, Bobbi Starr, and “Buttwoman” Alexis Texas.

The movie is shot in HD, and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. The package of extras on the DVD and Blu-ray include a “making-of” featurette, interviews with cast members, multiple bonus scenes, and a director interview.

Also released in January from Elegant Angel is big butt standout Ava Rose’s first interracial anal scene in White Booty Worship 2, directed by L.T. Sam No also returns with Battle Of The Asses 2 starring Kelly Divine, Ava Rose, Gracie Glam, and Isis Taylor.

“2009 has posed a great deal of challenges to the adult industry,” said General Manager Graham Travis, “but, it’s been heartening to see that there is still a marketplace for quality movies. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers, distributors and retailers this year. Your support has been amazing and I hope we have delivered for you.”

Travis continued, “From movies like Pornstar Workout, Big Wet Asses 15 with Gianna’s first anal scene, Superstar September, and a host of others, our directors have worked very hard to deliver high quality products. I’m very proud of their work, but I know we can do even better in 2010, and that is our objective.

“Ultimately, it’s all about the wonderful girls that have contributed to our movies over the past 12 months, and that’s what our Performers Of The Year series celebrates. With in-depth interviews, glamorous tease sequences in epic locations, and great hardcore sex, this movie is the epitome of everything we’re striving for at the company.”

Penthouse Magazine has named Texas beauty Taylor Vixen Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2010. The coveted title comes with a year-long contract with Penthouse and a gorgeous diamond Penthouse Pet of the Year Key necklace. Taylor Vixen’s all-new Pet of the Year pictorial is featured in the January issue of Penthouse, available on newsstands everywhere December 15, 2009.

Debuting in Penthouse Magazine’s special 40th Anniversary issue, Taylor Vixen immediately became a favorite among Penthouse readers. With her gorgeous natural figure, dark mischievous eyes and friendly down-home nature, she can’t help but draw people to her.

“I have always loved Penthouse. It’s sexy and tasteful, and a place for young women, like me, to express ourselves,” says the 26-year-old. “I had the best time at my photo shoot, where I was able to bring out both my personality and sexuality at the same time. I loved my photographer, Emma Nixon. My favorite part of the shoot was doing the robot dance at one point. I love to goof around!”

Looking forward to the year ahead, Taylor will be busy with Penthouse photo and video shoots and touring the world to meet her fans. “That’s what I am going to love most about this job. Every single day will be different and I will meet all kinds of great people. And I promise, when you meet me, I will make you laugh!”

In addition to Taylor’s Pet of the Year pictorial, the January issue of Penthouse Magazine features reviews of the hottest new movies, music, videogames and books; a must-read article on the staying power of vinyl; a guide to the enormously popular AdultFriendFinder website; and a pre-Valentine’s roundup of sensational toys to enhance readers’ sex life, and numerous sultry photo sets featuring more of the world’s most beautiful women, including the statuesque and sexy January Pet of the Month, Jessica Wilson.

And don’t forget to visit Penthouse.com for more Taylor Vixen.

McKenzie Lee announced Monday that she has amicably ended her contract status with Digital Playground and is, once again, a free agent.

“This was my decision,” Lee says. “Digital Playground has been nothing but supportive and I am grateful for their understanding.”

Lee explains that while she has enjoyed being with one of the best companies in the adult entertainment industry, she feels that her career goals would be better served off contract. “I have a lot of short-term goals that require my attention,” Lee offers, “including two new websites that require content, a dance career and a modeling agency to run. At this time it just makes more sense to have the freedom to work for other people.”

Despite agreeing to dissolve her contract just a few months after signing, Lee has nothing but great things to say about Digital Playground. “I am sure there is going to be a lot of talk about why I left,” she muses. “Everyone loves to gossip and it’s easy to spread rumors these days on the internet. The truth is I love the people at Digital Playground. I loved shooting with Robby D. I plan on working with them more in the future, just not exclusively.”

Adella Curry, Digital Playground’s director of marketing, was equally complimentary. “We love McKenzie and wish her all the best,” she told AVN. “She’s a beautiful and amazing girl and we just wanted to respect her wishes. It was an amicable parting and we certainly hope to work with her on future projects.”

One of the first jobs Lee will perform off contract will be as the official host of the Backstage Cam for the 2010 AVN Awards. She’ll be interviewing all the winners as they come offstage. This footage will appear in the PPV, VOD, DVD and Showtime broadcasts of the program.

“It’s going to be an exciting night,” she said. “I’m honored that they chose me.”

Born in Leicester, England, Lee started dancing at a strip club in Birmingham, and then later moved on to dance at clubs in London, working as a stripper for six years. She shot her first adult movie with Private Media and was quickly signed to Playboy UK, hosting Night Callers as well a British satellite TV show titled Babe Cast. She came to the U.S. to first appear on Night Calls on New Year’s Eve 2005 and then serve as interviewer for Playboy at the AVN Awards. There she met Jenna Jameson, who signed her to an exclusive contract shortly thereafter. Since then she’s won AVN 2006 Best New Starlet, been on the cover of nearly every adult magazine published, and appeared on mainstream television shows such as Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels and VH1′s Fabulous Life.

Her official website is http://www.mckenzielee.com/. Her MySpace page is http://www.myspace.com/mckenzielee.

Digital Playground contract star Katsuni this weekend introduced her new line of lingerie to the Far East audience at the Asian Adult Expo in Macao, which is considered the “Asian Las Vegas.”

Katsuni’s lingerie is called Petit Coeur or “Little Heart” in French. She plans to unveil the line in her home country of France for Valentine’s Day, and then will launch the brand in the U.S. in the springtime. The French-Vietnamese starlet also performed a series of erotic shows on the Asian Adult Expo stage at the Venetian, where she met fans at her Petit Coeur booth.

Hot Video, the leading adult magazine in France, followed Katsuni on her Macao trip where she met her Asian fans for the first time.

“It is very exciting. I’ll also be able to meet the most famous Japanese porn stars, hot Australian strippers and of course to enjoy some sightseeing,” Katsuni said before she arrived. “This meeting with a new world, a new culture, delights me. We all never forget our first time.”

In addition to her adult movie notoriety, Katsuni said the Asia Adult Expo organizers asked her to be a special guest after twice seeing her on the cover of the French edition of Penthouse. This week Katsuni plans to continue her Asian trip with a visit to Hong Kong and then Manila in the Philippines where she will visit a little girl that she helps so she can attend school.

Meanwhile, the performer recently landed the cover of a high fashion magazine in France called L’Optimum. Katsuni joined American actresses Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Sharon Stone as the only women to grace the publication’s cover.

“Normally it’s only men (Obama, Jay Z, Tarantino), but this month it’s me naked!” Katsuni said. “They even speak about it in the newspaper and on TV. People are shocked.”

Prior to her trip to Macao, the 12-time AVN award-winner defended the adult industry, and Larry Flynt, on live French TV during her appearance on the show “Ce Soir.” Katsuni had been invited to be a guest on the Dec. 1 show to speak about porn’s financial hard times when mainstream actor Christian Clavier who was also a guest made negative remarks about the profession. Her exchange with him received website and newspaper coverage throughout France. To see Katsuni’s blog entry about the appearance, click here.

TITS Brand has announced a collaborative project with Iron Cross Entertainment featuring adult film star Tera Patrick. The series will showcase her on two tees, including a “Luxury Model” and the “Tera Wifey” tee. The first shirts in the TERA x TITS series were available Nov. 27 on shoptits.com and can now be purchased in Metropark stores nationwide.

“This is going to be bananas, the first official series with Tera Patrick on a tee,” said Teravision’s Evan Seinfeld. “There are so many bootlegs out there, but those pirates can get to the back of the line. TITS Brand celebrates smokin’ hot ladies with great tits, and Tera’s are the most famous out there. TITS fans around the world will now have the opportunity to rock this iconic pair of the number-one adult film starlet in the world, not to mention this will be the first-ever porn star T-shirt available in finer shopping malls around the country.”

Other brands have featured Tera Patrick on shirt designs, but what makes this project unique is that TITS Brand is the first clothing line to not only launch a “series” with Patrick, but also to work directly with the adult star and her production team on each stage of the design process. Everything from the original concepts and photo shoot to the design process was a collaborative effort to ensure the success of the project.

The TERA x TITS series will include:

Luxury Model—Tera posing in front of her high-performance luxury car.

Tera Wifey—Tera in all of her curvaceous glory in front of her very own custom motorcycle.

Photos were shot by Evan Seinfeld and directed by TITS owner Marek Grubel. A video of the TERA x TITS shoot is available here.

“The TERA x TITS series made sense for us, and one thing we wanted to do is get our customers involved by having them vote on their top choice for which design we decided to use for the first shirt,” said TITS owner and founder Marek Grubel. “This strategy has worked well for us, and we plan to do this for more designs in the near future.”

To get fans of Tera and TITS even more involved there will be many giveaways and launch parties coming, including a huge bash during AEE. The tees also will be available on TeraPatrick.com. And make sure to look for more collaborations coming soon from TITS and Iron Cross Entertainment.

For more information, visit shoptits.com.

Everybody knows that bad girls have more fun, and the Digital Playground girls are the baddest on the block. Riley Steele and Angelina Armani star in Digital Playground’s Bad Girls 2, released on DVD and Blu-ray on Nov. 24. And the troublesome two are joined by Diamond Kitty, Nicole Ray and Mina Leigh.

Digital Playground founder Joone says, “The Bad Girls series shows off just how kinky and sinful our contract girls can be. It’s almost like we’ve found their evil twins who will do anything. Sweet Riley Steele loses her inhibitions and goes wild in this movie.”

Contract stars Riley Steele and Angelina Armani are bad and begging to be punished. Under the direction of Robby D., Riley Steele does her first boy/boy/girl threesome—with Scott and Mick happy to help discipline her. Diamond Kitty and Mina Leigh join the deviant action and offer everything for the taking, including intense anal. Nicole Ray can’t decide between two studs, so she handles both of them with equal attention.

Digital Playground’s Bad Girls 2 is packed with scandalous chicks who have a one-way ticket to Santa’s naughty list. Riley Steele says, “I have never felt more satisfied than having two cocks to play with and fill me up at the same time. It was enough to make me wish every movie was a Bad Girls movie. I can’t wait to see what freaky things I get to do in the next one.”

View the Digital Playground’s Bad Girls 2 trailer here.

Digital Playground has signed Kayden Kross to an exclusive performance contract.

Kross will join the studio beginning in 2010. The company said the Sacramento native has remained a porn enigma within the industry, but Kross will redefine herself with Digital Playground.

Digital Playground’s founder Joone is proud to have Kross with the company. “Kayden is a truly unique personality,” he said “She is mysterious yet flirtatious, sexy yet reserved. There is a conundrum surrounding Kayden that draws people to her every more. Kayden will flourish with Digital Playground and really come into her own in front of the camera.”

Digital Playground, which has branded itself as a “filmmakers’ company,” has produced best-selling movies such as Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, Nurses and Teachers.

“Digital Playground provides a level of unrivaled creativity and beauty in their movies,” Kross said. “I am really excited for the opportunity to be a part of their original content and believe I can add another fresh, new dimension to the company.

“I want to be pushed to be the best I can be, and Digital Playground expects nothing less,” the 24-year-old continued. “I thrive under pressure, and I think Digital Playground will provide the direction and support that I’ll need to get there.”

Fans anticipating Kross’s first release under contract with Digital Playground should note her scene with Tommy Gunn in Digital Playground’s Deeper 9.

To view the Deeper 9 trailer, visit digitalplayground.com/mov/deeper9.html.

Vivid Entertainment Group announced today that it has obtained a copy of the much gabbed about sex tape made by former Miss California Carrie Prejean and is looking to make a deal with the model for rights to distribute it.

“We’ve now seen the footage that has been so much in the news lately, we’ve reviewed it and we are ready to negotiate with Carrie,” said Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch. “We look forward to contacting Carrie and forging a business relationship with her.”

This announcement follows Vivid’s second public offer to Prejean, made Wednesday, of $1 million to appear in a movie for the studio. That offer—first extended last May after Prejean made headlines for her anti-gay marriage comments during the Miss USA pageant—was re-upped in light of the rumors that recently surfaced about this sex tape’s existence.

“The footage we saw is a series of very graphic and hot clips,” said Hirsch. “Let’s just say that she appears to be totally enthusiastic and is thoroughly enjoying herself. Carrie says the tape was ‘the biggest mistake of my life.’ That may be, but she can take this mistake and turn it into cold, hard cash. I’m more convinced than ever that this could be our best-selling Vivid-Celeb tape.”

Hirsch refuted the circulating speculation that Prejean was 17 years old at the time this video was shot, saying the third party who brought it to Vivid affirmed that she was of legal age.

The Prejean video would be distributed under the Vivid-Celeb imprint, which has released titles starring such personalities as Shauna Sand, Kim Kardashian and Ray J, Jimi Hendrix, Vince Neil and others.

Adam & Eve Pictures announced Thursday evening that it has signed adult star Teagan Presley to an exclusive performing contract.

Presley has been working over the last year only for skinworXXX, the production company she co-founded with producer/director Joshua, later joined by fellow performer Eva Angelina as a third co-owner. Adam & Eve distributes skinworXXX, and Presley will now appear in titles for both labels.

“I really thought with skinworXXX it couldn’t get much better,” told Presley. “When Adam & Eve approached me about expanding my exclusivity to AEP, I was shocked and thrilled! Girl/girl stars don’t get a lot of contracts these days, but Adam & Eve saw that my onscreen intensity and performances haven’t changed, just the sex of my partners!”

Concurred Adam & Eve head of production Meredith Christopher, “Teagan’s an incredible performer. We have always been impressed not only with her beauty and amazing sex scenes, but also with her dedication and professionalism. After seeing her recent work in the skinworXXX movies Sun Goddess: Malibu and Deviance, we immediately began negotiations to get her exclusively with Adam & Eve.”

Presley’s signing comes a little over a month after Adam & Eve added new performer Alexis Ford as an exclusive contract girl. The first title for Presley under the new contract will be Bree & Teagan with longstanding Adam & Eve girl Bree Olson, scheduled to shoot in December.

“I can’t wait to get a piece of Bree and Alexis,” Presley said. “This is a dream team!”

Exclusive Digital Playground contract girl Jesse Jane is now even more accessible to fans with the launch of her Fleshlight sex toy for men. The item is the latest in the line of Fleshlight Girls products.

The acclaimed star of bestselling Digital Playground movies Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge and Teachers partnered with Fleshlight to mold an exact replica of her famously tight pussy using their patented technology.

“We are thrilled to add a superstar like Jesse Jane to the Fleshlight Girls experience,” said Steve Shubin, Fleshlight creator and CEO of Interactive Life Forms Inc. “We predict this being one of our biggest launches to date, with both consumer and wholesale demand mounting steadily in anticipation of the launch.”

The Jesse Jane piece, which features her autograph, boasts the popular Lotus texture sleeve.

“I jumped at the chance to work with a sex toy company the caliber of Fleshlight,” Jane said. “With a great product, they’ve managed to successfully turn sex toys for men into a mainstream concept. I get so wet thinking about all the guys that are going to fuck my Fleshlight every night while watching one of my Digital Playground movies.”

Fleshlight’s soft, pliable Real Feel Super Skin masturbation sleeves are made from a patented, high-quality material designed to replicate the sensation of penetrative sex. The molded sleeve comes housed in an attractive and sturdy canister that resembles an ordinary flashlight, allowing for discreet storage. It’s easy to use, clean, and 100 safe. With proper care and usage, a Fleshlight product will give a lifetime of enjoyment.

For more information, visit Fleshlight.com.