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Being home for a new, fresh take on the legacy of one of the most iconic children’s shows of the 21st century is no small feat, but Colombia was ready to take on the challenge when it came to Paramount+’s “Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado.”

Shot in Colombia over 53 days between July and September of last year, with production services provided by leading local company Tis Studios, Alberto Belli’s “Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado” employed 401 Colombians as part of the crew. The film also had Colombian actors as key members of the cast, including Maria Cecilia Botero as Abuela, Oscar Rodriguez as Tio Nico, Valentina Acosta as Maria Elena and George Slebi as Papa Cole.

Created in 2000 by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” famously broke the fourth wall to include children...

“Swiper, no swiping.” “Oh, man!” “¡Hola, soy Dora!” “Backpack, Backpack.” “We did it!” “If there’s a place you gotta get, I can get you there, I bet. I’m the map!”

These are phrases burned into many a mind across multiple generations, as “Dora the Explorer” celebrates its 25th anniversary. There’s the target Millennial and Gen Z audience of the original animated “Dora” series on Nickelodeon, their Boomer parents who overheard it, and now the Gen Alpha and Gen Beta kids watching the CGI-animated reboot “Dora” on streamer Paramount+.

The classic “Dora” quotes are sure to resurface this week as new live-action movie “Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado” debuts on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ Wednesday and brings the nostalgia for the series up to 11. And that’s exactly what Nickelodeon and its parent company Paramount Global are counting on, especially at a time when so much is uncertain in the entertainment landscape,...

Paramount+ has announced that the second season of Dora, the original animated preschool series, will premiere on Friday, Sept. 13, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, with other international markets to be announced at a later date.

Produced by Nickelodeon Animation, the second season features 26 CG-animated 11-minute episodes and follows everyone’s favorite bilingual explorer, Dora, as she continues her epic adventures through the mystical and magical rainforest.

Additionally, Dora will make its linear debut Monday, Sept. 16, premiering Monday through Thursday for three consecutive weeks at 11 a.m. (Et/Pt) on Nickelodeon and 5 p.m. (Et/Pt) on the Nick Jr. channel. All 26 episodes of the first season are also available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.

In the second season, Dora and her best monkey friend, Boots, encounter new challenges, overcome tricky obstacles, and explore new fantastical territories. Kids will join the iconic Latina heroine...

Exclusive: Up-and-comer Jacob Rodriguez (Tell Me Lies) has landed the male lead in Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (wt), the new live-action family film being produced for Nickelodeon and Paramount+ by Nickelodeon Studios.

With Samantha Lorraine on board for the title role, as previously announced, Rodriguez will play Diego, the adventurous and resourceful cousin of Dora first introduced in the hit kids’ franchise’s animated spin-off series Go, Diego, Go!.

Directed by Alberto Belli (Upload and Naughty Nine and Black Scorpion) from a script by Jt Billings (Are You Afraid of the Dark?), the film will watch as Dora, Diego, and their new friends trek through the perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient and powerful treasure of Sol Dorado to keep it out of enemy hands.

Sol Dorado marks the second live-action feature out of the world of Dora the Explorer, on the...

Dora's age varied in different series, starting as a 7-year-old in the original and aging up to 10 in the sequel. Dora's height is a mystery, with speculations from a meme placing her between 5'1'' to 5'2'', but likely around 4 feet tall. In the live-action movie, Dora ages up to a teenager at 16 years old and is portrayed taller than in the cartoons.

Dora The Explorer is one of Nickelodeons best-loved shows, but the question of "how tall and how old is Dora" isn't easy to answer. Co-created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, the long-running series began back in 2000 when the original Dora The Explorer cartoon started airing on Nickelodeon. Since then, its spawned video games and books, a number of toy lines and several international versions alongside a sequel series and a live-action movie that have seen young Dora age somewhat.

As with...

Paramount+ has renewed its original animated preschool series Dora for a second season. The iconic Latina heroine triumphantly returned earlier this month in the all-new CG-animated series produced by Nickelodeon Animation.

The series is currently available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and also on Nick Jr. internationally.

“Kids and family programming is consistently one of the most popular genres on Paramount+, and we’re thrilled that our audience has already embraced Dora,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President of Programming at Paramount+. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce this beloved character and iconic franchise to a whole new generation.”

“Our audiences have embraced the new Dora series with open arms, and it’s incredible how she continues to capture the imaginations of preschoolers around the world with her extraordinary rainforest adventures,“ said Ramsey Naito,...

Paramount+ has renewed the animated preschool series Dora for a second season.

The iconic Latina heroine returned earlier this month in the CG-animated revival series produced by Nickelodeon Animation.

Dora, based on the original series Dora the Explorer, follows everyone’s favorite bilingual explorer, Dora (Diana Zermeño), and her best monkey friend, Boots (Asher Colton Spence) as they embark on epic adventures in a fantastical rainforest. Guided by trustworthy Map (Anairis Quiñones), Dora and her friends must work together to overcome many obstacles while being challenged by the sneakiest fox, Swiper (Marc Weiner). Kathleen Herles, the original voice of Dora the Explorer, voices Mami.

“Kids and family programming is consistently one of the most popular genres on Paramount+ and we’re thrilled that our audience has already embraced Dora,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce this beloved character and iconic franchise to a whole new generation.

Paramount+ has renewed its new “Dora” series for a second season.

Based on “Dora the Explorer,” which ran on Nickelodeon from 2000 to 2019, the animated preschool series follows a Dora (voiced by Diana Zermeño), and her best friend, a monkey named Boots (Asher Colton Spence), as they embark on adventures in a fantastical rainforest. Guided by their trustworthy talking Map (Anairis Quiñones), Dora and her friends must work together to overcome many obstacles while being challenged by a sneaky fox named Swiper (Marc Weiner). Kathleen Herles, the original voice of Dora the Explorer, voices Dora’s mother aka Mami.

“Kids and family programming is consistently one of the most popular genres on Paramount+ and we’re thrilled that our audience has already embraced ‘Dora,’” said Jeff Grossman, executive vice president of programming at Paramount+. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce this beloved character and iconic franchise to a whole new generation.

Nickelodeon’s beloved Latina heroine Dora the Explorer is making her big screen debut with the launch of the all-new animated short film, Dora and the Fantastical Creatures, exclusively in theaters beginning Friday, September 29. Movie fans of all ages around the world seeing Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, will experience the original theatrical short that heralds her return in Dora, an all-new CG-animated preschool series set to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in spring 2024 in the U.S. Internationally, Dorawill stream day-and-date on Paramount+ and air on Nickelodeon channels in all markets where available. Check out the trailer above!

In Dora and the Fantastical Creatures, Dora (Diana Zermeño) and Boots (Asher Spence) embark on an incredible adventure to the land of alebrijes, the most magical and colorful creatures in the rainforest. There, they must band together against Swiper (Marc Weiner) to save the beloved alebrijes and their Copal Tree Celebration. The...

Rainn Wilson is in the pursuit of happiness in a new travel series, “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss.” It’s based on Eric Weiner’s “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.” On this journey, Wilson travels across the globe to learn more about the happiest countries. All five episodes are available to stream on-demand on Peacock beginning on Thursday, May 18. You can watch Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss: Season 1 with a subscription to Peacock.

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In “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss,” the actor embarks on a new adventure to learn more about the science of happiness. In the trailer,...

Screen Rant is thrilled to present a new clip from Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, an upcoming Peacock series starring the former Office actor. The show is based on the novel The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner, and centers on Wilson traveling to different parts of the world and exploring the culture of what makes people happy. The five-part series is slated to begin later this week.

Rainn Wilson has stayed busy since The Office, working on projects like The Meg, Brightburn, and hosting his podcast Baháʼí Blogcast. Wilson is no stranger to world travel, having lived in locales across both the United States and Nicaragua over the course of his life. Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss combines the comedian's worldliness with his philosophical side seen in the ventures of his company SoulPancake to explore...

If you think about it, it's a bit odd that people value happiness so much, elevating it to this almost mythical status — "The pursuit of happiness;" "I just want you to be happy;" "Don't worry, be happy." This is bizarre and paradoxically unhealthy for a variety of reasons. While words are semantically subjective, 'happiness' is an emotion, and emotions are essentially ephemeral. Rooting for one above all the others creates a life out of balance, to somehow reference both Pixar's Inside Out and the film Koyaanisqatsi.

Happiness runs contrary to contemporary society and existence as a whole on this autophagous world. We have hedonic adaptation, meaning that we get used to good things but not to bad things, which is hopelessly depressing when you really think about it. Modern culture has also numbed us to most of the things which have historically brought happiness and meaning to individuals. The...

Rainn Wilson travels for a purpose — to find the happiest places on Earth. In the new Peacock docu-series “The Geography of Bliss,” the intrepid traveler traverses the globe in a humorous search for meaning. Based on Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book, “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World,” Wilson explores some of the happiest and unhappiest places on earth — from Iceland to Bulgaria to Ghana — in a profound and funny way that unpacks the science of happiness. All five episodes of the series will be available during Mental Health Awareness Month, beginning on May 18.

Watch the trailer for “The Geography of Bliss”:

Also arriving on the streaming service next month, Pete Davidson, Edie Falco, and Joe Pesci will star in “Bupkis,” a semi-autobiographical series about Davidson’s life. The show mixes reality and absurdity to capture the complexities...

A father and daughter learn they are both CIA operatives — and are forced to team up as partners. Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in his first series — “Fubar” — on Netflix. Spies, action, and cheeky humor accompany the family drama. All eight episodes of the first season will be available to stream on the world’s largest streaming service, beginning May 25. Monica Barbaro co-stars as Arnold’s daughter, while Fortune Feimster, Gabriel Luna, Milan Carter, Jay Baruchel round out the cast.

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Rainn Wilson of “The Office” fame travels the globe in search of the happiest places on Earth in the upcoming Peacock series “Geography of Bliss.” Inspired by Eric Weiner’s book, Wilson explores both the happiest and least happy places on the planet — from Iceland to Qatar — searching for satisfaction. The series and Wilson’s adventures kick off May...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

Netflix's Bling Empire franchise is no more.

Deadline broke the news Wednesday, revealing that Bling Empire would not return for a fourth season.

Additionally, the New York-set spinoff has been canceled after a single season.

Stars included Christine Chiu, Kane Lim, Kelly Mi Li, Kevin Kreider, Gabriel Chu, Anna Shay, Cherie Chan, Jessey Lee, Kim Lee, Andrew Gray, Jamie Xie, and Guy Tang for the original series.

The spinoff Bling Empire: New York starred Dorothy Wang, who was in season two of the original show, as well as Tina Leung, Deborah Hung, and Stephen Hung.

No reason has been given for the cancellations, and there's no telling whether Netflix will revisit the franchise down the line.

Meanwhile, Acorn TV, AMC+, and BBC America launched the highly anticipated trailer for the third and final season...

Rainn Wilson is widely known for his work at Dunder Mifflin on The Office, gaining an army of fans who will be excited to learn that the first trailer for the actor's next project has been released by Peacock. Titled Rainn Wilson and The Geography of Bliss, the docuseries will see the actor traveling around the world while he attempts to discover where happiness can be found. The whole quest is based on Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book, "The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World". Could joy actually be found within ourselves, or is it located in a specific place, waiting for us to reach it?...

The Office‘s Rainn Wilson is turning in his role as Assistant to the Regional Manager on the iconic sitcom and trading it in for a trip across the globe in Peacock‘s upcoming travel docuseries Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss. Set to premiere Thursday, May 18 on Peacock, the series features five hour-long episodes (dropping all at once) with Wilson traversing the globe with a goal in mind: he’s searching for the secrets to the happiest societies on Earth. Based on Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, Rainn will explore some of the happiest and least happy places on the planet ranging from Iceland to Qatar to Ghana. (Credit: Peacock) Along the way, he’ll have a profound and humorous experience that unpacks the science of what it means to be happy and find happiness.

Trapping characters in a single location makes for a compelling story. And having everyone be strangers certainly helps rack up conflict and drama as well. Sure, it’s an overworked formula at this point, but the results are undeniable. Eric Weiner, a ghostwriter for Fear Street Sagas, gave the recipe a whirl in his 1994 book Deadly Detention. He was clearly inspired by one of the most seminal examples of these “bottle” tales, The Breakfast Club, but unlike John Hughes’ benchmark of teen movies, the characters in this story aren’t mired in expectations or concerned with social constructs. No, these young detainees are running from a more tangible threat — one hoping to keep them in school forever.

The book begins with the six main characters reporting to their disciplinary destination, classroom 301 at Harrison High School. For a few hours on this ill-fated afternoon, these unlucky students belong to Mr. Lance Crowley.

David Letterman’s Emmy-nominated talk show series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” is set to return on May 20, Netflix announced on Thursday.

The fourth season of the Netflix original series will feature six episodes and a new selection of guests, including Cardi B, Kevin Durant, Billie Eilish, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith.

The show features one-on-one conversations with the legendary talk show host and the celebrity guest inside and outside a studio setting. Season four comes after a long absence from the series, as season three premiered almost 18 months ago in October of 2020.

Notably, the streamer has announced that all of the episodes were filmed prior to March 2022; that means that there will be no talk of the infamous Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars slap that occurred on March 27.

Letterman, who is renowned for his 33 years as a late night host at NBC and CBS,...

Rainn Wilson is heading out in to the world to search for the happiest places on earth.

The Office star is to front Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, a travel docuseries, for Peacock.

Based on Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, the six-part series will see Wilson travel to Iceland, Ghana, the UAE and Japan as he searches for happiness.

Produced by RadicalMedia, the six-part series is a deeply personal journey for Wilson and his own struggles with mental health. In each episode, he will travel to a different country to discover how changing your location and perspective can change your life.

Best known as Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy, recently created, hosted and exec produced docuseries An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change for YouTube and Soul Pancake.

The series is exec produced by Wilson,...

Like Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Giraffe is a fiction sketched around the margins of an infrastructure project, capturing impressions of life and landscape in a place across which the state will soon sweep like a hand across a countertop. Instead of Still Life’s Three Gorges Dam, which juxtaposed the epic scope of the Ccp’s ambition against the worker ants carrying the project out or being washed away in its wake, Giraffe’s Danish director Anna Sofie Hartmann tells a prototypical EU story of technocratic consensus and its faint, localized counterweight of regret over dying tradition.

To get to Copenhagen from the European mainland, a lot of people take ferry that leaves from Puttgarden in Germany and arrives in Rødby, on the island of Lolland. This route will soon be replaced by the Fehrman Belt Fixed Link, an 11-mile road and rail tunnel—the longest in the world...

2Nd Update: Dora and the Lost City of Gold is moving again, but not by that much. Paramount is moving the release date for its live-action feature adaptation of the hit Nickelodeon show from July 31 to August 9.

The news comes in the wake of Disney pushing Artemis Fowl off August 9 and sending it to May 29 next summer. No surprise if more release date changes come from other rivals in the wake of Disney’s revamped theatrical release slate this morning.

Dora will know share the marquee with CBS Films’ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Warner Bros’ crime noir The Kitchen and Bleecker Street’s Brian Banks.

Updated, April 12: Paramount’s live action take on Nickelodeon’s hit TV toon series Dora the Explorer — Dora and the Lost City of Gold — will now open on July 31. That’s a Wednesday and it will give her a jump before...

Walden Media has boarded Paramount Players’ live-action film Dora the Explorer, based on the ever-popular kids IP from Nickelodeon. The company will be both co-financing and co-producing. Eugenio Derbez (Overboard) has also joined the film, which is being directed by James Bobin. Paramount has the film set for an August 2, 2019 release.

The film was written by Nick Stoller and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and fits right into Walden’s family-friendly slate. It previously has had a hand in such films as The Star, The Chronicles of Narnia, Nim’s Island, Amazing Grace and the smash-hit Wonder, which has grossed $300.6 million to date.

“Movies like Dora is what Walden Media is all about: creating content that sparks the imagination and entertains the whole family,” said Frank Smith, president and CEO of Walden Media. “We are so thrilled to be part of this incredible IP with Nickelodeon and Paramount.”

Walden also made waves recently...

Paramount Pictures has announced that Isabela Moner (Transformers: The Last Knight) has signed on to star as the iconic title character in Dora the Explorer. This live-action adaptation of the long-running animated series is being produced under the studio's Paramount Players division, which mines properties from Paramount and its parent corporation Viacom, for new film and television adaptations. Here's what Brian Robbins, President of Paramount Players, had to say in his statement about the casting.

"We are thrilled to have found our Dora in Isabela. Dora has long been a celebrated, strong heroine in animated television, and like Dora, Isabela has an incredible spirit and is an advocate for positive values. With our partners at Nickelodeon, we look forward to continuing Dora's story for generations to come."

Dora the Explorer was created by Eric Weiner, Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh, debuting on Nickelodeon in 2000. The popular animated series followed Dora,...

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Paramount Pictures have added another film to their ever-growing release schedule, announcing on Monday that the live-action adventure Dora the Explorer has been given an August 2nd, 2019 release date.

The story looks set to have grown with the leading character, Dora, no more a 7-year-old child but in her teens who has moved to the city to live with her cousin Diego. No other details have yet been released for the picture. A release date has yet to be finalised but it’s rumoured that Paramount is looking to a 2019 release.

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The TV series aired on Nickelodeon between 2000 and 2014 and ran for 172 episodes, which, these days for a fourteen-year stretch aren’t that many. The show focused on Dora, a young American Latina who, along with her monkey Boots, faced riddles...

Paramount Pictures has set an August 2, 2019 release date for their Dora the Explorer live-action movie adaptation. As of now, the movie will only be going up against an untitled "event film" from Warner Bros., while also being situated between Universal's Fast & Furious spin-off and Paramount's new Terminator movie on July 26, 2010, and Disney's Artemis Fowl and Universal's new Quentin Tarantino movie on August 9, 2019. There is no word yet on when production is supposed to begin at this time.

Paramount first announced the Dora the Explorer movie back in October 2015, when Puss in Boots writer Tom Wheeler was set by the studio to write both this movie, and a Micronauts adaptation. There was little to no movement on the project until this past October, when the studio brought in Nick Stoller to write the script for this adaptation, for producer Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes producing partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller.

(Rns) The new movie about Steve Jobs is short on anything explicitly religious. Like its main character, however, it’s got a thread of transcendence running through it.

The truth about Jobs and religion may be that, in this arena as in others, he was ahead of the cutting edge.

The film isn’t making the purists happy, in part because it takes too many liberties with history. But it’s not a documentary. I’ll go against many of the reviews and say that Ashton Kutcher does a pretty good job at representing the personality found in Jobs’ speeches and in what has been written about Jobs — particularly in the massive authorized biography by Walter Isaacson.

One quote in that book, from one of Jobs’ old girlfriends, pretty much captures the character in the film: “He was an enlightened being who was cruel,” she told Isaacson. “That’s a strange combination.