Blockbuster Dora the Explorer begins production on the Gold Coast at Roadshow Studios at Oxenford

THE blockbuster Dora the Explorer live action film has begun production on the Gold Coast using filming locations at Mount Tamborine, Tallebudgera, Canungra and Oxenford. Here is how the popular film will bring movie magic to the city.

Isabela Moner in character as Dora the Explorer which will be filmed on the Gold Coast.

IT’S lights, cameras, action on the Gold Coast as blockbuster Dora the Explorer begins production.

The film will partly be shot on location at some of the Coast’s most diverse landscapes, including tropical forests near Mount Tamborine and Tallebudgera, to portray Dora’s jungle habitat as well as areas of Canungra.

The majority of the film will be created at the $15.5 million Sound Stage 9 at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk secured the shooting of the Paramount Pictures blockbuster after a tense standoff between state and federal governments to increase the standard 16.5 per cent tax offset to attract the film.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made an announcement about the Dora the Explorer film at the cinemas in the Myer centre. She’s with Jackie Trad. Pic Annette Dew

The Queensland Government have dipped into a $20 million film attraction fund and have used money budgeted for Commonwealth Games “legacy” projects to come up with the cash.

Village Roadshow Studios has been host to major Hollywood movies including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Shallows, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Thor: Ragnarok and, most recently, Aquaman.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will make an announcement about the Dora the Explorer film at the cinemas in the Myer centre. She’s with Jackie Trad. Pic Annette Dew

The live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon show stars Isabela Moner as Dora and is directed by 11-time Emmy and four-time BAFTA nominee James Bobin.

Paramount will release the film on August 2, next year.