Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Paramount's live-action adaptation of the classic Nickelodeon animated show
Dora the Explorer, didn't quite strike gold at the box office this weekend.
Facing some pretty stiff competition at the box office,
Dora and the Lost City of Gold brought in just $17 million domestically. That's lower than the estimates which forecasted a $20.5 million to $22 million opening, and good enough for the No. 4 spot in the domestic rankings. It came in behind
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (25.4M),
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (20.8M), and
The Lion King ($20M). Of those movies, only
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark was another movie making its box office debut, and like
Dora, it was also targeted toward teen girls and Latinx audiences.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold also brought in another $2.5 million internationally for a worldwide opening total of $19.5 million. It's not the most impressive opening, but
Dora and the Lost City of Gold also had a modest production budget of just $49 million.
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 (Jeffrey 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.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is now playing in theaters. It currently boasts an impressive 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with an 87 percent audience score.