Girls Gone Wild’s Joe Francis
Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis will be calling in. Has he got all his legal problems behind him? What does he have in store for the future of GGW? We’ll find out what he has been up to and more.
Hear his side of the story and if he is coming back to Florida.
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History:
Francis’ first video, sold through infomercials, was a series of private clips and news footage deletions of fatal accidents that were considered too graphic for broadcast. Banned From Television was considered a commercial success and it spawned other sequels. One of the videos that Francis had licensed contained footage of female college students flashing their breasts during Mardi Gras and Spring Break. Seeing the marketing appeal, he titled that footage Girls Gone Wild (GGW). He eventually stopped licensing the material and began producing it himself.
In 1997, at the age of 24, Francis founded Mantra Films, Inc. Building on Francis’ discovery that he could film college-age women “going wild,” including baring their breasts for the cameras at spring breaks and other locales, Mantra has become a company with over 400 employees and has recorded sales in excess of $100 million per year. Mantra also spun off the Guys Gone Wild DVD series.
Francis’ Girls Gone Wild is regularly referenced in today’s society and pop culture atmosphere and was recently cited as an example of “sexualization,” number 23 on USA Today’s list of the “25 Trends that Changed America”.
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