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Joone is an entrepreneur, photographer, director and producer. For directing pornographic films, he won AVN Award twice. In 1993, Joone founded American pornographic movie studio Digital Playground〔 and was a co-owner of the company until it was acquired by Manwin in 2012. ==Career== Ali Davoudian better known by the pseudonym Joone, was born in Iran and graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He founded the Digital Playground company〔 in 1993 when he was 25 and still a student,〔 initially making adult CD-ROM computer games. As a photographer, his works has appeared on ''Maxim'', ''People'', ''Front'', ''Bizarre'', ''Stuff'', ''FHM'', ''Arena'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Loaded'' and ''Ralph''.〔 At some time, he was Creative director of Brain Zoo Studios. Commenting on the transition of the pornography industry from the underground economy to mainstream corporate acceptance, the company's founder said: "I look at the porn business where Vegas and gambling was in the 70's… Vegas was still mob-owned and they were making the transition between these small groups of people to being corporate owned… I feel the same exact thing is going to happen with adult". Joone is considered a "ground-breaker" in the world of interactive adult technology, introducing the ''Virtual Sex'' line of DVDs, in which the viewer can "command" a famous pornographic actress by selecting from a menu of explicit scenes.〔 The first film in the series was released in 1998.〔 In the series, the actress looks directly at the camera and appears to talk directly to the viewer.〔 According to Joone, "It's the closest you'll ever get to having sex with our girls without really having sex with them".〔 Joone has directed the highly successful pornographic films ''Pirates'' and ''Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge''. Digital Playground FX is accredited for the CGI work for ''Pirates'' and ''Pirates II'' and other Digital Playground features such as ''Top Guns'' and ''Body Heat''. In January 2012, alongside his ex-wife Samantha Lewis who was co-owner, CEO and President of Digital Playground, he reached an agreement with Fabian Thylmann to sell the company to Manwin. On the acquisition, Joone commented: “To me this deal is no different than the acquisition of Pixar by Disney, The consumer is going to see more blockbusters, big-budget productions, and it’s our goal to create the next genre of adult entertainment. This acquisition is a marriage between two industry leaders. Adult entertainment is changing and Manwin has a lead on technology.” The price or terms of the deal was not disclosed, but it was announced that Lewis and Joone will "continue to oversee the studio", however, it was reported in March that Manwin has released Lewis and some other employees in orther to make changes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joone (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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