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Universal and DreamWorks’ live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon is already tracking well at the box office and smashing a franchise record. After Disney found some success redoing beloved animated movies in live-action, Universal followed suit by greenlighting a remake of How To Train Your Dragon only a few years after the animated trilogy concluded. The new version of the familiar story returns director Dean DeBlois and Gerard Butler as Stoick, while Mason Thames headlines as Hiccup opposite the lovable night fury, Toothless. Given the success of the animated films, the remake has big expectations to meet.
This includes at the box office, and How To Train Your Dragon‘s live-action remake is already doing just that. According to early box office projections provided by BoxOffice Pro, the live-action version of How To Train Your Dragon is already flying to an $80 million to $100 million opening weekend domestically. These are early projections, so additional tracking figures will continue to surface ahead of the film’s release on June 13, 2025. But, the potential $100 million opening would nearly double the franchise’s current box office record held by How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World‘s $55 million opening.
Source: BoxOffice Pro