How to Train Your Dragonwill soon surpass the box office earnings of the animated film as it passes another impressive milestone. While audiences have mixed feelings about live-action remakes, they often find success at the box office.DreamWorks' first foray into the live-action remake realmhas been a major success so far, and it keeps improving.
In its third weekend of release,How to Train Your Dragonwas finally dethroned from the No. 1 spot byF1: The Movie, a sports blockbuster starring Brad Pitt. However,HTTYDstill took second place, bringing in $19.4 million. According toVariety, the DreamWorks film has now reached $200.5 million domestically, andhas passed $450 million at the worldwide box office, with a total of $454.5 million.
After this latest milestone,the live-action remake is now about $17 million away from passing the 2010 animated filmdomestically and about $40 million from passing it worldwide. Once it passes its predecessor, 2025’sHTTYDwill be the highest-grossing film in the franchise.
What This Box Office Milestone Means For How To Train Your Dragon
It’s A Massive Win For DreamWorks
Disney has dominated the live-action remake trend, butDreamWorks has now emerged as a worthy contender. Despite criticism for being an almost shot-for-shot remake,How to Train Your Dragonhas still won over audiences and critics, scoring a 77% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Itmay not reachLilo & Stitchnumbers, but it will still be profitable for Universal and DreamWorks.
With a $150 million budget, the film is already a box office success and will only increase its earnings before it ends its theatrical run. Universal had confidence in the remake before its release,announcing aHow to Train Your Dragon 2two months before it premiered.Its current box office success means the sequel should perform well, and increases the likelihood that DreamWorks will complete the trilogy.
Another likely outcome is thatDreamWorks will look to make live-action remakes of its other properties. This could includeShrek,Kung Fu Panda,Madagascar, orThe Croods. While they don’t have the same catalog as Disney, that doesn’t mean they won’t try to capitalize onHTTYD’s success.
Our Take On How To Train Your Dragon’s Success
The Franchise Is More Popular Than Ever
WhileHTTYDhas been one of DreamWorks' most successful franchises, it may be more lucrative than one might expect. 2025 has been the year of the dragon. As the remake continues to move up the box office charts,audiences are also immersing themselves in the Isle of Berk, a new land whichrecently opened at Epic Universein Orlando, FL.
The park gives fans of the franchise an amazing opportunity to ride one of Hiccup’s dragon-flying prototypes, meet Toothless, and buy as much food and merchandise as they want.It’s proof that millions of people love this franchise, and are willing to show up to theaters or theme parks to relive their nostalgia.
It may have started in 2010, butHow to Train Your Dragon’s popularity is still increasing every day. If the sequels are as strong at recreating what people loved about the original films, then the live-action trilogy should be even more profitable than its animated counterpart.
