Astrid smiling faintly in How to Train Your Dragon 2025
How to Train Your Dragon has had a record-breaking opening weekend. The 2025 movie is the fourth installment in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, which is loosely based on the children's book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell.
It is a live-action remake of the original 2010 DreamWorks animated movie, following young Viking Hiccup bonding with an injured dragon that he names Toothless, in the process learning that his village, Berk, should be working together with dragons instead of fighting them. Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, How to Train Your Dragon is projected to take in a 3-day debut gross of $82.7 million by the end of its opening weekend. In addition to pushing the movie past its original projections, this total means that the new installment has earned the best opening weekend of the entire four-film franchise. It also allows the movie to easily claim the No. 1 slot on the domestic box office chart, ending the reign of fellow live-action remake Lilo & Stitch after it topped the chart for three consecutive weekends. What This Means For How To Train Your Dragon It's On Track To Be A Major Hit This record-breaking kickoff to the How to Train Your Dragon release sees the new movie exceeding the previous highest-grossing installment by almost exactly $30 million. This is a huge leap, considering the fact that the previous movies all debuted in a range between $43.7 and $55 million. Because those movies also had relatively consistent returns on investment, this could mean that the new movie is also on track to become the highest-grossing movie in the franchise in general. Below, see a breakdown of the box office performance of the three feature-length animated installments in the franchise: The global multipliers for each previous installment in the franchise have been outstanding, as they have earned an average of 11.2 times their domestic debuts by the end of their respective worldwide theatrical runs. If 2025's How to Train Your Dragon follows their lead, it could potentially gross $925 million or more by the end of its run. That would make it one of the highest-grossing movies of the year, as only two movies have passed that milestone so far, with an additional one on track to do so soon. Our Take On The Weekend Box Office How To Train Your Dragon Is Only The Summer's Second Big Blockbuster Close So far, live-action remakes have been dominating the summer box office, propping up the domestic market in addition to being set to make huge returns on investment given their relatively low costs . This is a good thing, because other IP movies such as Karate Kid: Legends and Ballerina have been performing comfortably but not becoming runaway hits, so the market needs the boost while awaiting the arrival of blockbusters like Superman. Enjoy ScreenRant's box office coverage? Click below to sign up for my weekly box office newsletter and get exclusive analysis, predictions, and more:Your Rating close 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Rate Now 0/10 Leave a Review Your comment has not been saved Like Follow Followed How to Train Your Dragon PG Action Adventure Family 8/10 12 8.3/10 Release Date June 13, 2025 Runtime 116 Minutes Director Dean DeBlois Writers Dean DeBlois Franchise How to Train Your Dragon Cast See All
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