Universal and DreamWorks' live-action remake ofHow To Train Your Dragonis 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 aremake ofHow To Train Your Dragononly 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, andHow To Train Your Dragon’s live-action remake is already doing just that. According to early box office projections provided byBoxOffice Pro, the live-action version ofHow To Train Your Dragonis already flying to an $80 million to $100 million opening weekenddomestically. These are early projections, so additional tracking figures will continue to surface ahead of the film’s release on June 30, 2025. But, the potential $100 million opening would nearly double the franchise’s current box office record held byHow To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’s $55 million opening.
What How To Train Your Dragon’s Early Box Office Projections Mean For The Movie
It’s Already On A Path To Success
These early box office projections forHow To Train Your Dragon’s live-action remake are certainly encouraging. It is easily going to set a new franchise record during its opening weekend now. The first of the animated trilogy made $43 million, while the sequel made $49 million.How To Train Your Dragon 3jumped up slightly once again with its $55 million performance. Even ifHow To Train Your Dragonhits the low end of the early projections, it will still easily beat the previous record.It’s not a question ofifthe remake sets a franchise record opening, but more sohowbig of a record opening it has.
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It’s also worth noting thatHow To Train Your Dragon’s early box office tracking is better than most of Disney’s live-action remakes. Only six made over $80 million in their opening weekends, and only four went over $100 million. Those figures will increase by one, withLilo & Stitchpotentially breaking the Memorial Day opening record this weekend.How To Train Your Dragonwill give Universal a major win if it can perform on par with the biggest of Disney’s remakes.
Our Take On How To Train Your Dragon’s Box Office Projections
I’m not surprised thatHow To Train Your Dragon’s box office projections are already reaching these levels. The animated trilogy is excellent and a franchise modern audiences are familiar with. Even if the remake is a familiar story redone in live-action, many will just be happy to get another adventure with Hiccup and Toothless in any capacity. It helps, too, thatearly reactions toHow To Train Your Dragonhave been largely positive. Universal’s confidence is clear, and these projections make it clear why they already announced a live-action sequel for 2027.
My question now is just how bigHow To Train Your Dragon’s remake will be. A $100 million opening weekend domestically would give the film a good start to possibly hit $1 billion worldwide, depending on how it does internationally. It should have no trouble beatingHow To Train Your Dragon 2’s $621 million haul to be the highest-grossing entry in the franchise overall. I always expectedHow To Train Your Dragon’s remake to be a hit -I predicted a $760 million performancefor it at the start of the year - but now it could go much higher.
