Universal's live-action How To Train Your Dragon movie opened to $198 million worldwide and has recently surpassed the $600 million global mark, six weeks after its June 13, 2025 premiere.
The film's box office climb continues despite the fact that it hit digital Video on Demand (VOD) platforms on July 15, 2025.
This past weekend, it grossed an additional $5.2 million from international territories and another $2.8 million from the U.S. and Canada to bring it's global box office total to $605.9 million worldwide.
How To Train Your Dragon had an estimated production budget of $150 million and a marketing budget of $100 million. Factoring in 50-50 revenue splits with theater owners, the movie needed to gross approximately $500 million to break even from ticket sales alone, a feat it surpassed several weeks ago.
How To Train Your Dragon stars Mason Thames (The Black Phone) as Hiccup. Astrid will be played by Nico Parker (daughter of Thandie Newton), who played Sarah Miller in The Last of Us.
Gerard Butler, who previously voiced Stoick the Vast in the How To Train Your Dragon animated film series will be reprising the role for the live-action remake.
Additional cast include Nick Frost as Gobber the Belch, Julian Dennison as Fishlegs Ingerman, Gabriel Howell as Snotlout Jorgenson, Bronwyn James as Ruffnut Thorston, Harry Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut Thorston, and Ruth Codd as Phlegma.
A live-action sequel has already been greenlit by Universal. It is currently slated for release on June 11, 2027.
How To Train Your Dragon Official Synopsis: A winning mixture of adventure, slapstick comedy, and friendship, How to Train Your Dragon rivals Kung Fu Panda as the most engaging and satisfying film DreamWorks Animation has produced. Hiccup (voice by Jay Baruchel) is a failure as a Viking: skinny, inquisitive, and inventive, he asks questions and tries out unsuccessful contraptions when he's supposed to be fighting the dragons that attack his village.
His father, chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), has pretty much given up on his teenage son and apprenticed him to blacksmith Gobber (Craig Ferguson). Worse, Hiccup knows the village loser hasn't a chance of impressing Astrid (America Ferrera), the girl of his dreams and a formidable dragon fighter in her own right. When one of Hiccup's inventions actually works, he hasn't the heart to kill the young dragon he's brought down. He names it Toothless and befriends it, although he's been taught to fear and loathe dragons.