How to Train Your Dragonhas broken a major record for the franchise. The 2025 movie is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated movie of the same name, which was based on the children’s book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The DreamWorks hit spawned an animated trilogy, making the remake the fourthHow to Train Your Dragonmovie.
TheHow to Train Your Dragonreleasekicked off by earning a domestic debut of $84.6 million, markingthe best opening weekend of the franchise so far. Since then, it has soared past a worldwide total of $450 million, but it has not yet managed to outgross the entire global runs of any of the previous installments.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,How to Train Your Dragonis expected to earn a 3-day total of $9.7 million by the end of its fourth weekend in theaters. This will push its cumulative domestic total to $222.7 million, surpassing the $217.8 million gross of the 2010 movie to make the remakethe highest-grossing installment in North America.
What This Means For How to Train Your Dragon
Its Next Goal Is Worldwide Franchise Domination
The reportedbudget ofHow to Train Your Dragonis $150 million, so this new domestic total pushes it even further past that number in addition to helping it break a franchise record. However,the movie still needs to climb higher globallyif it is going to be anything but the lowest-grossing installment in the franchise worldwide.
Below, see a breakdown of the domestic and global performance of every installment in the franchise so far:
$43.7 million
$217.8 million
$494.9 million
$49.4 million
$177 million
$621.5 million
$55 million
$160.8 million
$539.9 million
$84.6 million
$222.7 million+
$478.5 million+
While the full global weekend total for the new movie will not be calculated until Sunday,it is drawing close to surpassing the original 2010 movieon the franchise’s global ranking, if it hasn’t already done so. However, if it is going to become the highest-grossing installment overall, it will need to surpassHow to Train Your Dragon 2’s $621.5 million.
This means thatit will still have to earn more than $100 million morebefore the end of its run. Given the fact that its weekend grosses have already dipped below $10 million at the domestic box office, this will probably take some time, if it happens at all.
Our Take On The How to Train Your Dragon Box Office Record
It Doesn’t Need To Be Compared To The Other Movies
Regardless of its global performance compared to the previous installments,the live-action remake is still a major hitgiven how it is already performing compared to its budget. Its performance shows that DreamWorks was wise to greenlight theupcomingHow to Train Your Dragon 2before the 2025 installment even hit theaters.
Even if it doesn’t hit a peak for the franchise as a whole,How to Train Your Dragonhas entered the same overall playing field as the original hits, proving that there is still gas in the tank for the beloved family movie franchise.
