Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk recently announced Queensland’s next big blockbuster will be the live-action version of Dora The Explorer from Paramount Pictures. The Premier said the decision to provide competitive incentives to lure the production came down to a single criteria: creating jobs.
“This isn’t only for our film industry workers it’s for all the other businesses we know benefit from big productions in Queensland,” the Premier commented “Over the past three years my government has committed $30 million attracting movie makers to Queensland through our Production Attraction Fund, gaining more than $350 million of direct expenditure in our State. We will keep on pushing for screen jobs for our local crews and creatives and for productions that inject hundreds of millions of dollars into our economy and take our creative talent and our stunning Queensland locations, to screens around the world.”
“We could not be more thrilled to be bringing Dora to Queensland and to be able to deliver Queensland for our film,” Lee Rosenthal, President of Physical Production for Paramount Pictures commented “In Queensland, we are able to get outstanding crew, stages and a variety of jungle topography and city backdrops in essentially one place.”
Rosenthal explained that This Dora will be a live action update of the much-loved Nikelodeon animated series, in which Dora is now a teenager navigating the world with her cousin Diego. Adding that Dora will be filmed on the Gold Coast’s $15.5 million Sound Stage 9 at Village Roadshow Studios and came after the Premier’s US trade mission in February.