It's SpongeBob SquarePants' 20th anniversary, and to commemorate 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon Australia is partnering with the Australian pay television company to launch the SpongeBob SquarePants Pop Up Channel in September 2019!
The SpongeBob SquarePants Pop-Up Channel will bring fans a nonstop Bob Fest, airing everyday between Saturday 21st September and Tuesday 8th October 2019 on Foxtel Channel 702. The 18-day mega marathon will air 11 seasons, 240 episodes and more than 432 hours of the globally-acclaimed series.
The channel will launch in time for the upcoming school holidays and will provide fans of the character with back-to-back Spongebob content.
Foxtel's SpongeBob SquarePants Pop Up Channel follows SKY in New Zealand hosting a SpongeBob SquarePants Pop-Up channel throughout July 2019.
This activity will mark the first time Foxtel has produced a dedicated Kid’s TV pop-up channel which will be available to all residential subscribers.
Nickelodeon will still air regular programming on Foxtel, channel 701 (Nickelodeon) and 703 (Nick Jr.) during this period. The Pop-Up channel will be accessible to all Foxtel residential subscribers.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Pop Up Channel forms part of the "Best Year Ever", Nickelodeon's year-long global celebration commemorating 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants, one of the most iconic TV series and characters ever created, which launched with the premiere of the all-new mixed live-action and animated special “SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout” and will lead up to the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies theatrical, The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge, coming 2020.
To further celebrate SpongeBob SquarePants' 20th anniversary, Nickelodeon has teamed up with Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef to launch Junior Citizens Of The Reef, a brand-new call-to-action pro-social initiative which aims to raise awareness about the Great Barrier Reef, and what can be done to protect it - a cause very close to SpongeBob's heart.
In the 20 years since SpongeBob first went to air, pollution and extreme changes in temperature have put the reef in more danger than ever. That's why Nickelodeon wants kids to join them to help raise awareness of one of the world's greatest natural assets! Kids can play an active part by signing up to become a Junior Citizen Of The Reef today at nick.com.au/reefsquad. Kids who sign up to become a Junior Citizen Of The Reef will receive a personnel certificate so that they can share and display their official citizen status with their family and friends to encourage them to follow their lead and take action.
SpongeBob SquarePants was created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg, who sadly passed away in November 2018 following a battle with ALS. A fitting legacy for Hillenburg would be for his beloved character to help protect the reefs in our ocean.
In the September 2019 issue of It GiRL, fans can find out more about the SpongeBob SquarePants Pop Up Channel as well as a magical Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty poster and a bonus Mermaid necklace.
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Dora the Explorer’s quest at the box office has begun as Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures’ Dora and the Lost City of Gold earned a solid $1.25 million (USD) from Thursday (August 8, 2019) preview screenings! Previews for the movie started at 4:00 p.m.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is being estimated to earn $6M by the end of today (Friday, August 9, 2019), including last night’s $1.25M.
Update (9/9) -Dora and the Lost City of Goldgrossed $2.1 million in the U.S. this past weekend, coming in 10th place at the Box Office. The movie was earned $54.1 million domestic and $82.3 million worldwide on a $49 reported cost.
Update (9/2) - During its opening weekend in Spain, where Dora y la ciudad perdida opened on 30 August 2019, the movie made 0.5 million euros, making it to fifth place in the charts.
In Argentina, Dora y la ciudad perdidawaswatched by 32.921 over the last weekend, coming in fourth place. The movie was closely followed by the theatrical release of PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups at number 5, which was watched by 18.901.
Update (9/1) -Dora and the Lost City of Goldgrossed $4.1 million this past weekend, retaining its ninth place in the box office charts. The $49 million live-action adventure has a domestic total of $49.5 million and a worldwide total of $75.2 million on its fourth weekend. Not too shabby, to be honest!
Update (8/26) - Back at the U.S. box office, Dora and the Lost City of Goldgrossed $5.2 million (-39%) in its third weekend ($1.3 million on Friday, August 23) for a $43.09 million 17-day cume. It should crawl past $50 million domestic, but the $49 million Nickelodeon flick needs big overseas grosses (it has $60.4 million worldwide thus far) to justify itself. Dora is currently in ninth place in the charts.
Update (8/18) - In the U.S., Dora and the Lost City of Gold earned $8.5 million (down 51% from last weekend) in its second weekend for a $33,909,724 ten-day total, and is currently in seventh place in the charts. The filmed has so far made $44.6 million worldwide.
Latest U.S. box office stats:
Friday: $2.23 million
Weekend: $8.5 million
Total: $33.9 million
Update (8/12) -Dora and the Lost City of Goldopened in fourth place with $17 million, as analysts projected.
Internationally, Dora And The Lost City Of Goldtraveled to its first 11 markets for a $2.5M start that was led by Russia’s $878K. Rollout will continue through October in order to take advantage of holidays and play outside the current competition. So far, the Nick Flick has made $19.5M at the global box office.
Some stats: Dora And The Lost City Of Gold's is being made up by 8% movie-goers aged 13-17, and 15% aged 18-24, with parents and kids under 12 repping 43% of the audience in updated comScore/Screen Engine PostTrak exits. Dora was very strong, with Latinx audiences driving 46% of its audience, with Caucasians at 32%, African Americans at 11%, and Asian at 10%. 38% of the audience has been female.
It may have just been released in theatres, but Paramount are already taking pre-orders for Dora and the Lost City of Goldon DVD and Blu-ray on Amazon.com! The formats currently up on Amazon are:
Dora and the Lost City of Gold on Blu-ray combo.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold on DVD.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold on Amazon Prime Video (in 4K Ultra HD).
A physical 4K Ultra HD format pre-order has not yet appeared.
Update (8/11) -Dora and the Lost City of Goldearnt $6.47 million on Friday, including $1.25 million in Thursday previews. That positions the $49 million-budgeted adaptation of the classic preschool toon for an opening weekend between $17.5 million and $19.5 million. The film also earned an A from Cinemascore and decent reviews, which could bode well for word of mouth. In terms of demos, 40 percent of ticket buyers were Hispanic, followed by Caucasian (37 percent), Asian/Other (12 percent) and African-American (11 percent).
Paramount is projecting a $15-17 million opening for Dora and the Lost City of Gold, which was produced on a $49 million budget. The movie was co-financed by Walden Media and Media Rights Capital.
The hope here for Paramount this weekend given such a prime piece of Viacom IP is that Dora dashes past $20M and over-indexes (as it should for a property that since 2002 has reportedly accounted for well north of $11 billion in worldwide consumer sales).
Directed by James Bobin, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a slightly more mature but still family friendly spin on the Dora the Explorer Nick Jr. preschool TV series, as Dora (Isabela Moner) teams up with her cousin Diego and a strange jungle inhabitant (Jeff Wahlberg and Eugenio Derbez) to rescue her captured parents (Eva Longoria and Michael Peña).
During previews night, families repped 55% of Dora‘s audience, with parents giving the pic 4 1/2 stars and kids under 12 3 1/2 stars in PostTrak exits. The turnout was 44% Hispanic, 39% Caucasian, 7% Asian and 4% African American. Moms led the way at 59%, with girls under 12 outnumbering boys at 59% as well. In overall audience make-up females under 25 repped 31% of the crowd, females over 25 repped 26%, men under 25 were 24%, and men over 25 at 19%. Dora is 77% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, but these exits are more powerful and will propel her.
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Moner) for her most dangerous adventure ever – high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego (Jeff Wahlberg), a mysterious jungle inhabitant (Eugenio Derbez), and a rag tag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents (Eva Longoria, Michael Peña) and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost city of gold.
11-time Emmy and four-time BAFTA nominee director James Bobin (Alice Through the Looking Glass) has assembled a cast of diverse superstars to star in the movie, including: Isabela Moner (100 Things to Do Before High School, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Transformers: The Last Knight) as Dora, Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Overboard) as Dora's mother, Elena; Michael Peña as Dora's father; Eugenio Derbez (Overboard, Instructions Not Included; How to Be A Latin Lover), who plays Alejandro, a mysterious jungle inhabitant who tries to protect the teenagers from the marauders; Jeffrey Wahlberg (Future World, Ballers, Counterpart, Reefa) in the role of cousin Diego; Nicholas Coombe (Spy Kids: Mission Control, Midnight Sun) as Randy, a fellow high schooler who develops an immediate crush on Dora; Madeleine Madden (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tidelands) as the school’s snooty class president, Sammy; Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel, Amores Perros, Thor, The 33) as Dora’s grandma, Abuelita Valerie; Temuera Morrison (Green Lantern, Moana), who will play the role of Powell; Q’orianka Kilcher (The Alienist), who will play Inca Princess Kawillaka; Pia Miller (Home and Away) as Dora's aunt Mami; Madelyn Miranda, who portrays Young Dora; Benicio del Toro as the voice of Swiper the fox, Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots the Monkey; and Marc Weiner (Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora and Friends: Into the City, Weinerville) as the voice of Map.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold credits:
Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies Present
In Association with Walden Media
A Burr! Productions Production
A James Bobin Film
“Dora and the Lost City of Gold”
Executive Producers Julia Pistor, Eugenio Derbez, John G. Scotti
Produced by Kristin Burr
Story by Tom Wheeler
Screenplay by Nicholas Stoller and Matthew Robinson
Directed by James Bobin
Following it's North American release, Dora and the Lost City of Gold will rollout internationally, including in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 16th August 2019! Click the following link for a full list of international release dates for Dora and the Lost City of Gold!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/08/dora-prepares-to-leave-jungle-in-new.html
Henry Danger's Secret Truth REVEALED 🤯 #FactOrFanFiction
You deserve to know the truth— Henry Danger is filled with secrets. In this video, Nick's investigator uncovers some truths about Henry Danger that will change the way you think about Swellview and the Henry Danger gang…FOREVER. You can catch more Henry Danger and all your favorite shows on Nick—that is, if your mind doesn’t melt when you try to wrap your mind around the deepest secrets in Henry’s universe. Good luck!
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