LOS ANGELES—Mistress Cyan’s Sanctuary Studios will celebrate its reopening in Los Angeles with a kinky party at 9 p.m. Saturday, May 13.

Sanctuary Studios is one of the longest running and largest BDSM safe spaces in Southern California, featuring kinky classes, parties, LGBTQ+ fundraisers and meetings for the leather community. It has also served as a location for film and video production.

For tickets, location and more details, click here.

“This very special night marks the start of a new chapter in the Sanctuary legacy,” said Cyan, the studio’s founder and owner. “We started in 1999 as a weekly fetish night at a club in the San Fernando Valley, and we’ve served the leather community since, with a rented location in Reseda, then later by LAX. In 2022, we made the decision to scrape together every penny to purchase a property. In January of this year, we got the keys to the new home for Sanctuary Studios. While we know we will never be ‘finished,’ we feel that it’s time to start this new chapter with a celebration, and we are inviting our kinky friends across Southern California to attend.”

The reopening party will feature stage performances, open play rooms, a complimentary barbecue and free drawings for prizes, including tickets for the upcoming DomCon Los Angeles, a fetish expo founded by Cyan.

For more information, visit sanctuarylax.com or MistressCyan.com, and follow the studio on Fetlife, Instagram and Twitter.

LOS ANGELES—Director and AVN Male Performer of the Year Seth Gamble teases fans with the release today of the trailer for his next big Wicked Pictures project, the crime saga Reckless.

Produced by four-time AVN Director of the Year Axel Braun, who also shared camera duties with Billy Visual and Sammy Slater, Reckless is an eight-scene epic also starring Gamble (in his first lead in a project he wrote and directed) as Silas Knight, a racing enthusiast and tech genius enmeshed in a web of greed and betrayal after designing a chip that radically improves car performance. From his true love Harlow Knight (2019 AVN Best New Starlet Ivy Wolfe) and ex-partner/rival Brooke Michaels (2022 AVN Best Leading Actress Kenna James) to corrupt detective Matteo Bennett (AVN Hall of Famer Lexington Steele) and an appearance from the psychotic Dr. Joseph Curwen (last seen in Gamble’s Deranged and once again embodied by Tommy Pistol), everyone wants what he has.

“Filmmaking is like painting,” Gamble said. “Every stroke or every color impacts another and you just build on that canvas and you get new ideas right up to the last stroke. I’m trying to use the camera to get into people’s heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character. That is what art is about. Art is about reproducing and recreating what you feel. My background as an actor involves the same choices, whether it’s choosing roles or writing scripts.”

He continued, “I directed Tommy Pistol in Deranged, but believe it or not, we’ve never acted together before in a serious feature where we shared the screen. So, it was incumbent on me to make it finally happen. If you look at my body of work, there’s always a dark side to my characters, they’ve always got a subtext.

“Deranged, Privilege and Reckless intersect as one 24-episode series. Reckless looks at the lives of the characters portrayed by Mick Blue, Tommy and others prior to the events of Deranged,” Gamble revealed. “We’ve seen this approach in parodies, but I’m not sure it has been done with an original IP before. My characters are complex and that comes from my scripts and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. Because the real world has always been far more exciting and funnier and more dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer. The real world is where I go to educate myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That’s the way into my movies.”

Filling out the cast of Reckless are top-draw talent including Kenzie Anne, Ryan Reid, August Skye, Nicole Doshi, Nathan Bronson, David Lee and more.

“This ensemble is truly a bucket-list lineup of wonderful performers,” Gamble hailed. “I think the guiding principle for me in casting is that I want to seize the moment and work with the people I see as the best possible fit for their characters. Because the true excitement comes from the performers—that gives you the real drama—and whatever I can do with the camera, that’s icing on the cake.”

This principle led Gamble to tap Braun himself for a major non-sex role as Italian mob boss Dino Moretti. First introduced in Privilege, Moretti is a major player in the shadowy machinations Silas must face.

“I’ve often done small cameos in my movies just for giggles,” said Braun, whose latest award-winning Wicked parody SpideyPool XXX starring Gamble as Deadpool is up for more accolades at the XRCO Awards next week, ”but this was different. Seth constructed an intricate plot stretching across a cinematic universe, and wrote some very intense dialogue, and as much as I tried to convince him otherwise, he was adamant that I had to be the one playing this role. I’m not an actor and had plenty on my plate as a producer … I would have turned down anybody else, but I just couldn’t say no to him.

“I guess while Seth was learning the ins and outs of directing on my sets for the past fifteen years, I picked up a thing or two about acting from him,” Braun laughed. “All jokes aside, I had a ball playing Dino, and absolutely loved being directed by Seth. It was an important moment for both of us, it felt like a passing of the torch and I’m very happy that we had it. It’s a fact that his exponential growth as a director in a really short time has impressed everybody, but while Reckless is in itself a monumental achievement, I promise you it’s only the beginning of what Seth will go on to accomplish. I’m endlessly proud of his dedication to excellence and very much looking forward to seeing him reach the pinnacle of the adult industry.”

Gamble was similarly fixated on one person for his female lead. “Sometimes, you seek people from real life who’ve lived the lives of the characters, and you talk it through together to reach an understanding, but Ivy Wolfe had such a presence, and we had so much chemistry together, that putting anyone else in her role was unthinkable. She’s won Best Actress from AVN in the past and this is her next classic performance. Our relationship in the movie is palpable. My character is someone who loves to test the dark side, and she responded to the adrenaline junkie side of the character, as well as the introspective side.

“I want to thank the many people who worked tirelessly to make Reckless what it is,” Gamble concluded. “I truly cannot sing the praises of this cast and crew enough. Just know that from the bottom of my heart, I appreciate every single person that has worked on creating this boundary-pushing series. And thank you, Axel, for always having my back. You are truly an inspiration.”

The first scene of Reckless will debut May 26 exclusively on Wicked.com, to be followed by seven additional episodes.

HOLLYWOOD—Adult star Ana Foxxx plays a wife hoping for a romantic Mother’s Day in the latest release from Delphine Films and director Bloomer Yang, “Mommy & Daddy.”

Recounts a provided wrap-up of the new featurette, “Ana Foxxx and Will Pounder rent an Airbnb but are disgusted when they find it filthy and smelly with no food amenities. The place is a nightmare, and every room is a new horror show. Will calls the owner only to get screamed at, so they decide to make the best of the holiday weekend. Since there’s nowhere else to go—they clean up the place, go to the grocery store, and plan for a night in. They have a date night where they’re dressed up, listening to jazz music, and enjoying dinner, wine, and each other’s company. But they both get so hot that they end up stripping down and going straight for dessert upstairs.”

Watch the trailer for “Mommy & Daddy” here, and find the full scene at delphinefilms.com.

“Bloomer and Will are always a great day on set. I love scenes where I show off my acting skills, and about half of ‘Mommy & Daddy’ let me do that,” Foxxx said. “Will and I have great chemistry, which definitely comes through throughout the scene. I hope the Delphine Films members and my fans enjoy it and make sure to heart it after watching.”

In other news, Foxxx has a new interview for “Holly Randall Unfiltered” that goes live Sunday on YouTube, and will also be available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple, Stitcher, Spotify and Audible.

To book Ana Foxxx, email [email protected] or call (818) 326-5403.

LOS ANGELES—Cosplay cam and content starlet Catjira will be making her debut tonight on ePlay with a live Star Wars show in honor of May the 4th.

The show will feature the streamer in full Slave Leia cosplay, and she will also have an exclusive cosplay clip for sale on her ePlay feed.

“I’m very excited to try ePlay for the first time!” Catjira said. “It’ll be my first cosplay show in over a year, so I know my fans are just as hyped if not more than I am! Plus, we’ve really missed playing naked video games together!”

Allie Awesome, ePlay’s Talent Recruitment Coordinator, commented, “We’re so pumped to have a cosplay icon like Catjira join our platform! I can’t think of a more perfect marriage between streamer and brand! You’re not going to want to miss what she’s bringing tonight!”

To watch the show, login to ePlay and visit Catjira’s page at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT. Follow Catjira on Twitter @catjiratv.

LAS VEGAS—Adult performer Will Tile gets in on today’s worldwide celebration of May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, with the release of new sci-fi themed scene “Space Buns” co-starring Morea Black. The cheeky scene is now available at WillTileXXX.com.

“I am really happy with how this turned out,” Tile said. “We were fighting the sun to make it happen, but the final product is really something I can stand by. Morea is an amazing performer and I hope she gets a bunch of recognition from this.”

In the scene, Black offers to dress up as a character from the beloved franchise after forgetting the significance of May 4 for her sci-fi enthusiast boyfriend Tile.

To book Will Tile, contact him directly at [email protected].

Keep up to date with Tile on his promo Twitter account. His official website, WillTileXXX.com boasts weekly updates with monthly, quarterly and semi-annual membership options. He also posts updates to his official Telegram account here.

LOS ANGELES—Penthouse Magazine on Monday announced that Lexi Chey is their May 2023 Pet of the Month.

Standing 5-foot-8, the brunette appears on the cover of the May/June 2023 “Trailblazers Issue” wearing only her sunglasses, hat, and signature Penthouse key necklace.

“I have always admired the centerfolds,” said Chey of her decision to become a Penthouse Pet, “and embracing the beauty of a woman’s body.”

Hailing from Colorado, the model and aspiring pilot embarking on her first year of flight school, is also a painter. Chey created a piece of art to be showcased as part of her exclusive pictorial.

“It was my immense pleasure to produce Lexi’s painter studio and luxury bohemian-themed Pet of the Month pictorial and cover,” said Penthouse Photo Editor Sam Phillips. “One of the sets showcased her incredible artistic ability, featuring a canvas that she painted—the back of a naked female form lying sideways atop the Penthouse key logo. It’s so gorgeous.

“Fun fact: Lexi spent several days painting her canvas and sent it to my house Express Mail. But it didn’t show up in time for her shoot, so she had to re-paint it from scratch when she landed in LA the day before. The original canvas she painted did arrive the day after her shoot, so, the one from the set hangs in my home, and the original hangs in the Penthouse offices.”

“We are very excited about our latest Penthouse Pet Lexi Chey,” remarked Penthouse Creative Director and Broadcast VP, Drew Rosenfeld. “Beautiful, talented, and very, very sexy, Lexi was amazing to work with. She knows exactly how to pose in such a way that the camera grabs every erotic angle. She has those sparkling eyes that tell a story in every photo.”

“There is so much to say about sexy Lexi Chey and her array of amazing attributes!” added Phillips. “First, I love her face, it’s unique and exotic, her eyes are hypnotic, and her body is long, lean, toned and tan. I’ve had my eye on Lexi for a long time before we approached her to be a Penthouse Pet. I was a fan and followed her growth on social media and watched her progression as a model. She’s multifaceted and has many interests and hobbies, and we became fast friends, immediately bonding over our similar passions of art and animals.”

Penthouse CEO Moose said, “The newest member of our Penthouse family, Lexi Chey, blew us all away with her talent, adventurous spirit, and kind heart. Lexi personifies so many of the qualities we look for in a Pet, along with the type of natural sex appeal that resonates with our audience. On top of that, Lexi’s work as an artist is off the charts. The Penthouse team did an incredible job showcasing her artwork as part of her pictorial, and we cannot wait to share it with the world. It is our distinct honor to present Lexi Chey as our May Pet of the Month.”

Learn more about May 2023 Penthouse Pet of the Month, Lexi Chey, and see her pictorial and centerfold in the May/June issue of Penthouse Magazine entitled “The Trailblazers Issue” now available at newsstands and bookstores worldwide. For more exclusive access, visit PenthouseGold.com.

For more information, visit penthousemagazine.com.