Exclusive: Paris Hilton is to play matchmaker in the metaverse.
The socialite and reality star’s 11:11 Media has teamed with gaming virtual world The Sandbox to create Parisland, which falls somewhere between game and interact TV show.
Billed as a “romantic adventure set on a tropical island,” Parisland will see players participate in an in-game dating reality show hosted by Hilton in The Sandbox’s metaverse platform. It launches on The Sandbox on February 13, just prior to Valentine’s Day, and runs for a month.
Parisland will provide players with five potential romantic partners. They will participate in tasks such as choosing wedding rings and outfits, finding out the secrets of the island chef’s famed Love Burger, rescuing a castaway and flirting with other contestants before making their choice of partner. They’ll then have a wedding, with Hilton DJing for the new couple.
“I can’t think...
The socialite and reality star’s 11:11 Media has teamed with gaming virtual world The Sandbox to create Parisland, which falls somewhere between game and interact TV show.
Billed as a “romantic adventure set on a tropical island,” Parisland will see players participate in an in-game dating reality show hosted by Hilton in The Sandbox’s metaverse platform. It launches on The Sandbox on February 13, just prior to Valentine’s Day, and runs for a month.
Parisland will provide players with five potential romantic partners. They will participate in tasks such as choosing wedding rings and outfits, finding out the secrets of the island chef’s famed Love Burger, rescuing a castaway and flirting with other contestants before making their choice of partner. They’ll then have a wedding, with Hilton DJing for the new couple.
“I can’t think...
- 2/9/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
PARK CITY, Utah -- A 10-year-old girl's attempt to dig herself out of the rut of her small-town life is the uplifting and bittersweet subject matter of "Digging to China", Timothy Hutton's directorial debut, which received an ecstatic welcome in its world premiere during the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.
For those of you who recall the young heroine's plucky resolve in "Fly Away Home", this tale of one young girl's repeated attempts to reach beyond the dimensions of her unchallenging school and dimwitted home life should strike similar chords of sympathy and admiration.
In this '60s-set saga, Evan Rachel Wood stars as Harriet, a rambunctious and inquisitive girl who lives with her alcoholic mother (Cathy Moriarty) and man-crazy older sister Mary Stuart Masterson). They run a tiny tourist motel outside a small burg and, after school, there's not much in the way of stimulation for the precocious Harriet. She takes interest, however, in a mentally disabled young man, Ricky (Kevin Bacon) who, along with his mother, comes to stay at the motel. It's Ricky's last week alone with his mother, who has terminal cancer, before he must be institutionalized. Harriet takes him under her wing, and the two tend to connect in a completely intuitive, child-like way. Not surprisingly, the adults are wary about where this may lead.
Freckled with the openness of child-like searching, "Digging to China" is a stirring story of how two friends, Harriet and Ricky, come to enjoy and understand a world that seems structured against them. Their transcendent, dreamy projects, like digging a hole in the ground to reach China, are expressions of their need to escape from their own humdrum, constricted existences; in a sense, both are greatly limited, Ricky by his mental and emotional disability and Harriet by the mere fact that she is a kid and restricted by the small thinking of her elders.
Although the narrative sometimes slackens to a somewhat cutesy dimension, mainly in some neo-"Rain Man"-ish scenes, Hutton has maintained a remarkable balance in his story telling. The film never resorts to saccharine heart-tuggings and Hutton is always true to the fact that the child-like dreams and energies are in direct conflict with a harsher, stronger world. Most wonderfully, he imbues the strong story with a coating of this child-like naivete and energy that, by itself, overcomes the awful adult aspects of everyday existence.
It's young Even Rachel Wood's grainy and heady performance that keeps "China" clearly on the story map. She brings both a confidence as well as a serene, kid-ish clamor to her portrayal that takes you into the best, hidden reaches of your own child-like wonderment. Bacon's studied performance as the disabled Ricky is commendable, while Masterson is well-cast as Harriet's primary adult supervisor. Moriarty is credible as Harriet's blowzy, somewhat batty, mother.
Technical contributions under Hutton's fine hand are wonderfully wrought, particularly cinematographer Jorgen Persson's richly shaded scopings, which clue us to the vibrant inner world of this remarkable little girl.
DIGGING TO CHINA
Moonstone Entertainment
In association with
Davis Entertainment Classics
& the Ministry of Film
An Alan Mruvka/Marilyn Vance/
John Davis/J.Todd Harris production
A Film by Timothy Hutton
Producers: Marilyn Vance,
Alan Mruvka, John Dais, J. Todd Harris
Director: Timothy Hutton
Screenwriter: Karen Janszen
Executive producers: Etchie Stroh, David T. Friendly
Director of photgraphy: Jorgen Persson
Production designer: Robert De Vico
Music: Cynthia Millar
Music producer/conductor: Elmer Bernstein
Music supervisors: Michelle Kuznetsky, Mary Ramos
Editor: Dana Congdon
Costume designer: Mary Zophres
Color/stereo
Harriet Frankovitz: Evan Rachel Wood
Ricky: Kevin Bacon
Gwen: Mary Stuart Masterson
Mrs. Frankovitz: Cathy Moriarty
Running time -- 100 minutes...
For those of you who recall the young heroine's plucky resolve in "Fly Away Home", this tale of one young girl's repeated attempts to reach beyond the dimensions of her unchallenging school and dimwitted home life should strike similar chords of sympathy and admiration.
In this '60s-set saga, Evan Rachel Wood stars as Harriet, a rambunctious and inquisitive girl who lives with her alcoholic mother (Cathy Moriarty) and man-crazy older sister Mary Stuart Masterson). They run a tiny tourist motel outside a small burg and, after school, there's not much in the way of stimulation for the precocious Harriet. She takes interest, however, in a mentally disabled young man, Ricky (Kevin Bacon) who, along with his mother, comes to stay at the motel. It's Ricky's last week alone with his mother, who has terminal cancer, before he must be institutionalized. Harriet takes him under her wing, and the two tend to connect in a completely intuitive, child-like way. Not surprisingly, the adults are wary about where this may lead.
Freckled with the openness of child-like searching, "Digging to China" is a stirring story of how two friends, Harriet and Ricky, come to enjoy and understand a world that seems structured against them. Their transcendent, dreamy projects, like digging a hole in the ground to reach China, are expressions of their need to escape from their own humdrum, constricted existences; in a sense, both are greatly limited, Ricky by his mental and emotional disability and Harriet by the mere fact that she is a kid and restricted by the small thinking of her elders.
Although the narrative sometimes slackens to a somewhat cutesy dimension, mainly in some neo-"Rain Man"-ish scenes, Hutton has maintained a remarkable balance in his story telling. The film never resorts to saccharine heart-tuggings and Hutton is always true to the fact that the child-like dreams and energies are in direct conflict with a harsher, stronger world. Most wonderfully, he imbues the strong story with a coating of this child-like naivete and energy that, by itself, overcomes the awful adult aspects of everyday existence.
It's young Even Rachel Wood's grainy and heady performance that keeps "China" clearly on the story map. She brings both a confidence as well as a serene, kid-ish clamor to her portrayal that takes you into the best, hidden reaches of your own child-like wonderment. Bacon's studied performance as the disabled Ricky is commendable, while Masterson is well-cast as Harriet's primary adult supervisor. Moriarty is credible as Harriet's blowzy, somewhat batty, mother.
Technical contributions under Hutton's fine hand are wonderfully wrought, particularly cinematographer Jorgen Persson's richly shaded scopings, which clue us to the vibrant inner world of this remarkable little girl.
DIGGING TO CHINA
Moonstone Entertainment
In association with
Davis Entertainment Classics
& the Ministry of Film
An Alan Mruvka/Marilyn Vance/
John Davis/J.Todd Harris production
A Film by Timothy Hutton
Producers: Marilyn Vance,
Alan Mruvka, John Dais, J. Todd Harris
Director: Timothy Hutton
Screenwriter: Karen Janszen
Executive producers: Etchie Stroh, David T. Friendly
Director of photgraphy: Jorgen Persson
Production designer: Robert De Vico
Music: Cynthia Millar
Music producer/conductor: Elmer Bernstein
Music supervisors: Michelle Kuznetsky, Mary Ramos
Editor: Dana Congdon
Costume designer: Mary Zophres
Color/stereo
Harriet Frankovitz: Evan Rachel Wood
Ricky: Kevin Bacon
Gwen: Mary Stuart Masterson
Mrs. Frankovitz: Cathy Moriarty
Running time -- 100 minutes...
- 1/26/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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