How to Train Your Dragoncontinues to climb up a major all-time box office chart. The 2025 movie is a live-action remake of DreamWorks' 2010 animated movie of the same name, which itself was loosely based on the children’s book series by Cressida Cowell. The 2010 title launched an animated trilogy that collectively grossed more than $1.6 billion.
The 2025How to Train Your Dragonreleasekicked off on June 13, earningthe best opening weekend of the franchisewith an $84.6 million domestic debut and eventually rising past the $600 million milestone worldwide.
PerThe Numbers,How to Train Your Dragonhas now risen toa cumulative domestic box office total of $258.69 million, adding nearly $500,000 on Thursday alone during the waning days of its theatrical run. This has been the case despite the movie already being available for rental and purchase at home via premium video on demand.
This total sees the movie continuing to climb the chart of the highest-grossing fantasy movies of all time at the domestic box office,surpassing the highest-ratedHobbitmovie to hit No. 23. That title would be 2013’sThe Desolation of Smaug, which has a Certified Fresh 74% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $258.2 million in North America.
What This Means For How to Train Your Dragon
It Probably Won’t Crack The Top 20
2025’sHow to Train Your Dragonis slowing down, butit only needs to make $4.89 million more at the domestic box office in order to climb another slotup the all-time fantasy chart, surpassing the $263.58 million domestic gross ofHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Below, see a breakdown of the movies that stand betweenHow to Train Your Dragonand the Top 20 and the all-time fantasy chart:
#20
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(2005)
$291.15 million
#21
$281.29 million
#22
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(2002)
$263.58 million
#23
How to Train Your Dragon(2025)
$258.69 million
Box Office Theory’sprojections forHow to Train Your Dragonshow it earning an additional $1.8 millionbetween Friday and Sunday, bringing it considerably closer to that goal.
However, even if it climbs to No. 22,it ultimately seems unlikely to find a place in the Top 20, which is dominated by titles from blockbuster franchises includingHarry Potter,Twilight,Pirates of the Caribbean, andLord of the Ringsand requires it to earn at least an additional $32.46 million, which seems well outside the realm of possibility.
Our Take On The How to Train Your Dragon Box Office Update
It Doesn’t Need To Climb Any Higher
Missing out on a place in the Top 20 does not mean that the 2025 movie has failed in any way.It is already a titanic success, more than justifying the fact that DreamWorks greenlit theupcomingHow to Train Your Dragon 2before the new movie had even debuted.
Its domestic gross alone has surpassed the reported $150 millionbudget ofHow to Train Your Dragon, and its global total more than quadruples that number. Because most movies only need to make two and a half times their budgets to break even, the live-action remake has more than cemented itself as a hit.
