How to Train Your Dragon has had an enormous global debut. The 2025 movie is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated movie of the same name and stars Mason Thames as Hiccup, a Viking from a village of dragon hunters who forges an unlikely bond with an injured dragon who he names Toothless. The How to Train Your Dragon release kicked off on June 13, taking No. 1 at the domestic box office and knocking Disney’s competing live-action remake Lilo & Sтιтch from its perch at the top of the chart, which it held for three consecutive weekends.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, How to Train Your Dragon is expected to conclude its opening weekend with a global box office haul of $197.8 million. While this pales in comparison to its live-action remake compeтιтor Lilo & Sтιтch, which had a global debut of more than $340 million, this total is more than enough for the new movie to debut at No. 10 on the chart of the highest-grossing movies of the year worldwide within just three days, surpᴀssing DreamWorks’ Dog Man, which previously held the position with a $145.2 million haul.

What This Means For How To Train Your Dragon

It Should Continue Rising Up The Top 10 Chart

This huge global debut for 2025’s How to Train Your Dragon sees it soaring past the entire worldwide grosses of a number of other major 2025 movies, including the rom-com hit Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy ($139.3 million), the Stephen King horror movie The Monkey ($68.9 million), and the successful comedy One of Them Days ($51.9 million), which has a sequel in early development. It will most likely climb even higher, especially if it follows the lead of the original animated movies, all of which had solid worldwide totals that grossed an average of 11.2 times their domestic debuts.

If How to Train Your Dragon continues that trend, it could eventually gross $900 million or more worldwide. This total would place it in the Top 5 of the year as it stands, behind only Ne Zha 2 ($1.899 billion), A Minecraft Movie ($951.5 million), and Lilo & Sтιтch (which is on a trajectory to surpᴀss $1 billion). While it will take some time to climb the chart, it should more or less immediately claim the No. 9 position, because it only needs an additional $7.8 million to surpᴀss the $205.6 million total earned by Disney’s live-action disappointment Snow White.

Our Take On The How To Train Your Dragon Debut

It Has Major Compeтιтion Coming Soon

While the movie’s success seems ᴀssured, it remains to be seen if the How to Train Your Dragon box office can climb high enough for it to secure a position in the Top 10 at the end of the year. It has major compeтιтion coming up from fellow summer movies such as Superman, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, as well as holiday season тιтles including Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2, and Avatar: Fire and Ash. However, if it comes close to making $1 billion, it could potentially remain on the chart through the end of December.

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Source: Variety