How to Train Your Dragonhas hit a franchise-first box office milestone. The 2025 movie is a live-action remake of DreamWorks' 2010 movie of the same name. Helmed by original director Dean DeBlois, it follows young Viking Hiccup (Mason Thames) bonding with an injured dragon, which makes him question why he’s being trained to slay them.
TheHow to Train Your Dragonreleasekicked off on June 13, taking No. 1 at the domestic box office during its opening weekend and becoming the first new release to topple the live-actionLilo & Stitchremake from its perch at the top of the chart.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,How to Train Your Dragonis projected to end its sixth weekend with a 3-day domestic total of $5.2 million. This gross, which the movie has earned in spite of the movie having premiered on video on demand the previous Monday, July 14, lands it at No. 6 with a slim week-on-week drop of 34%.
Additionally, this pushesHow to Train Your Dragon’s cumulative domestic total to $250.5 million, making itthe first installment in the franchise to pass the $250 million domestic milestone.
What This Means For How to Train Your Dragon
It Is Falling Short Of An Even Bigger Franchise Record
In addition to being the first movie in the franchise to hit this major box office milestone,2025’sHow to Train Your Dragonis nowexceeding the domestic gross of the previous highest-grossing installment in North America by more than $30 million. That would be the original 2010 installment, which had a domestic gross of $217.8 million.
However, the movie is still quite far from being the highest-grossing installment in the franchise worldwide. Although it is also passing the $575 million global milestone this weekend,the 2025 remake still has a way to climb if it hopes to surpass the $621.5 million earned by 2014’sHow to Train Your Dragon 2by the end of its run.
Below see a breakdown of the domestic and worldwide box office performance of the previousHow to Train Your Dragonmovies:
$217.8 million
$494.9 million
$177 million
$621.5 million
$160.8 million
$539.9 million
Although the movie is still performing well for a release that is already available on VOD, that factor will still likely prevent it from earning what it needs to break that global record. It will alsoprobably be pushed out of even more theaters by the impending superhero tentpoleThe Fantastic Four: First Steps, which debuts next weekend.
Our Take On The How to Train Your Dragon Milestone
Its Box Office Is Still Extraordinary
Even though it may not end up becoming the highest-grossing movie in the franchise,How to Train Your Dragonis still turning out a dazzling gross against its reported budget of $150 million. This more than justifies the fact that theupcomingHow to Train Your Dragon 2was announced before the original live-action remake was even released.
