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Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s live-action “How to Train Your Dragon” picked up $8.6 million from Thursday previews as it soars towards a projected $70 million to $80 million debut. The overall preview number climbed even higher to $11.1 million, because Universal hosted “early access screenings” on Wednesday.

“How to Train Your Dragon,” which is based on a 2010 animated adventure, is expected to earn an additional $110 million at the international box office, where the film is opening in nearly every major foreign market. That positions it to be the latest in a line of recent family friendly hits, joining the likes of “A Minecraft Movie” and “Lilo & Stitch.” Like those films, it carries a PG rating.

“How to Train Your Dragon,” which is about a scrawny teen named Hiccup who befriends an injured dragon called Toothless, cost $150 million to produce. Critics have mostly been kind, handing the film a solid 77% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Universal’s How To Train Your Dragon leads new releases in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as the live-action remake opens in 670 sites, having already grossed £2.4m through previews from Monday (June 9).

The family feature will be hoping to match the opening weekends forthe animated trilogy, the first of which opened on £4.8m (including £2.1m in previews) in 2010 via Paramount. This was followed by a £7.8m England-and-Wales debut (including £4.9m in previews) for the 2014 sequel in a staggered UK and Ireland release by Fox, and £5.3m for the third film,How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,via...

Exclusive: Universal’s live action take of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon is eyeing around $8M-$9M in previews, which not only includes tonight’s monies but those from early fan access screenings. As we always say, these are industry estimates, so they could fluctuate by the time Universal reports in the morning. The studio didn’t return request for comment on what we were spotting.

While early week projections were $65M-$75M, exhibition has been pushing this one in hopes they can wrangle a $100M opening. We could use more of those this summer post Memorial Day weekend.

The audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for this Dean DeBlois directed movie (he did the original animated trilogy) is an epic 99% with critics at 77% certified fresh (that’s a little higher than Lilo & Stitch‘s 72% fresh; that pic’s audience score settling at 93%). Previews began today at 2Pm.

The live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake is hitting theaters this weekend as fans new and old line up to journey to Berk with Hiccup and Toothless in an entirely new medium. But after the credits roll on this genuinely compelling reimagining of the 2010 classic, is there any sort of post-credits scene for fans to feast their eyes on?

Post-credits scenes have existed in cinema since The Silencers in 1966, but grew to prominence after the first Iron Man and the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, anyone and everyone, including live-action remakes of animated films, have them too. Yes, How to Train Your Dragon does include a small bonus scene at the very end of the credits. As for what it is and what it means, you’ll have to keep reading to find out.

What happens in How To Train Your Dragon‘s post-credits scene? A still...

Here’s Where To Watch How To Train Your Dragon All 3 Films(Photo Credit –YouTube)

The eagerly anticipated live-action remake of the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon is set to soar into theaters on June 13, 2025. The film has already earned a respectable critics’ score of 79% on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes (at the time of writing). Before the fantasy adventure film lands on the big screen, now’s the perfect time to revisit the widely admired animated trilogy. Read on to find out where all three How to Train Your Dragon films are streaming on Ott in India.

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Plot: Loosely based on Cressida Cowell’s 2003 novel, the film follows Hiccup, a small and awkward Viking teen who befriends an injured dragon whom he names Toothless. Their...

Hiccup and Toothless are readying to fire up the box office.

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s live-action “How to Train Your Dragon” is poised to fly to $70 million to $80 million in its box office debut. Enthusiasm from family audiences and goodwill toward the original 2010 animated adventure could propel inaugural ticket sales even higher, according to independent tracking services and rival studios. “How to Train Your Dragon” looks to collect another $110 million at the international box office, where the film lands concurrently in nearly every major territory.

Even the lower end of domestic projections would a strong start for “How to Train Your Dragon,” which cost $150 million to produce. Set on the mythical viking village of Berk, the story follows the adventures of a scrawny misfit teen named Hiccup, who befriends an injured dragon he calls Toothless. Their bond defies centuries of tradition, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies.

Before dragons could soar onto the big screen in glorious CGI fire-breathing form, How to Train Your Dragon was just another animated underdog from DreamWorks. But then, boom, it launched one of the most emotionally rich, visually breathtaking trilogies of the 2010s.

Yep, the franchise unloaded stunning animation, tear-jerker-level storytelling, and epic soundtracks. Literally, the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy gave us heart-punching goodbyes, sky-soaring friendships, and enough flying scenes to make Pixar a little nervous.

And now? Well, the franchise has spread its wings into live-action territory. Yup, that’s right, DreamWorks has officially brought a live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, and shockingly, it doesn’t just coast on nostalgia. It actually flies. This remake apparently honors the original’s charm while upgrading the magic for a new audience, and yes, Toothless still steals every scene.

So, while the Dragon legacy still burning brighter than ever,...

The 2025 live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon isn’t just flapping its wings; it’s practically breakdancing in the sky. With a cast so well-picked you’d think it was plucked straight from Odin’s own casting scroll, we’ve got Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, and the grizzled growl of Gerard Butler once again roaring life into Stoick the Vast.

Dean DeBlois returns to the director’s chair like he never left, steering this cinematic longship back to familiar yet freshly forged lands. But let’s rewind to 2019’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: the supposed final chapter. Fans sobbed. Toothless soared. Hiccup matured. All was well in Berk… or so it seemed. Behind the scenes, though, there was a storm brewing in the sound booth.

Tuffnut Thorston, that beard-braiding, half-baked twin tornado of comic chaos, sounded like his usual deranged self.

Nico Parker is speaking out about social media reaction to the actress’ casting as Astrid in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon.

In an interview with British publication The Times, Parker was asked about online trolls grousing that the actress does not have blonde hair and blue eyes, as Astrid was initially depicted in the animated films that launched with 2010’s original How to Train Your Dragon. Universal Pictures releases the remake of the DreamWorks Animation hit movie in theaters Friday.

“There’s some people that really love the animated movies and really want to see an exact play-by-play of that film, and I hope that you can watch [the new version] and find something that you love about it, regardless,” Parker said. “But for the people that just hate inclusivity, hate change — when it comes to that side of things, I just don’t care.”

The 20-year-old performer continued,...

The review embargo for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon lifted late last night (you can read a breakdown of those here). Interestingly, the movie's Rotten Tomatoes score tells a different story from what seemed like relatively mixed verdicts from critics.

As we first reported on SFFGazette.com, How to Train Your Dragon currently sits at 83% based on 40 reviews. That's "Certified Fresh" territory, and suggests even the reviewers who were left underwhelmed still deemed it "Fresh" on the review aggregator.

Despite plenty of complaints about it essentially being a shot-for-shot remake—The Wrap, for example, decried it as a "squandered opportunity"—this score should give How to Train Your Dragon a fighting chance to dethrone Lilo & Stitch at the global box office this weekend.

For comparison's sake, 2010's How to Train Your Dragon from DreamWorks Animation is "Certified Fresh" at 99%. The sequel scored 92%, with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World...

Disney has made a cottage industry by taking its animated classics and remaking them for a new generation into live-action movies. While it may have experienced some misfires along the way, Disney made more than $7 billion at the box office with these remakes from 2010 to 2019 alone. Hence, it was only a matter of time before other studios started doing something similar. That brings us to this year's "How to Train Your Dragon" remake from DreamWorks and Universal, which looks to be a very faithful reworking of the 2010 animated favorite. The question is, can Universal successfully execute this play from Disney's playbook?

Directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the original animated film, "How to Train Your Dragon" is currently expected to pull in between $67 and $77 million domestically when it opens next weekend, per Box Office Theory. That would seemingly put it on track for success. While that number might seem low-ish for this sort of blockbuster,...

Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon are beloved animated films. In 2025, both returned with live-action versions.

Dean DeBlois had been attached to both since he co-directed both animated versions with Chris Sanders. But while the latter returned to the recently-released Lilo & Stitch live-action remake as the voice of the blue koala-like lovable alien, DeBlois wasn't a part of the project. Speaking to Cbr's Grae Drake ahead of the release of How to Train Your Dragon live-action remake, DeBlois revealed Disney didn't ask him if he wanted to direct.

When asked whether he had seen the Lilo & Stitch live-action remake, the filmmaker replied, "I have not seen it." When asked if he planned to check it out after he was done with the How to Train Your Dragon press tour, DeBlois responded, "I'm just, I'm curious, because in this case, Universal approached me, you know, to their credit,...

How To Train Your Dragon North America Box Office Projection Update (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The Disney live-action remake Lilo & Stitch opened with spectacular numbers at the box office, evoking hope in another upcoming live-action remake, How to Train Your Dragon. It is under Dreamworks Animation and is set to be released next month. The long-range forecast of the film predicts a favorable opening weekend. Keep scrolling for the deets.

For the uninitiated, the upcoming fantasy film is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated movie, which was again based on a 2003 novel of the same name. Gerard Butler gave his voice to Stoic the Vast in the animated movies, and now he will play the role in the live-action movie as well.

How much the film is projected to earn on its opening weekend?

According to Box Office Pro‘s long-range forecast report, How to Train Your Dragon might not earn as much as Lilo & Stitch,...

Besides interconnected universes and franchise films, one of the more popular trends in the Hollywood film industry is remakes of successful animated projects. Look no further than the record-breaking Memorial Day weekend—the movie that took the top spot, Disney's Lilo & Stitch, is a live-action remake of the 2002 animated movie of the same name. One of the highest-grossing films of all time is a remake of The Lion King, done with photorealistic CGI animation as opposed to the original 2D animated film that it is based on. Despite these success stories, the director of the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon remake has had concerns about the project.

When asked by CinemaBlend about the audience reception to the remake of How to Train Your Dragon, director Dean DeBlois spoke candidly about his worries regarding how the film would be perceived. Specifically, the director revealed he is well aware of...

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 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, 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,...

DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon is looking at an impressive opening weekend, one that would be the best of the franchise. How to Train Your Dragon, a remake of the 2010 animated film of the same name, is one of the most anticipated movies of the 2025 summer movie season. Universal Pictures is incredibly confident in the film as they screened the movie at Cinema Con in April to positive reactions and are already working on a sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, for a 2027 release date.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that box office tracking predicts How to Train Your Dragon will open to $72 million in its first three days of release. That would be the highest opening weekend in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, with the biggest weekend currently being held by How to Train Your Dragon 3 at $55 million in 2019. Regarding 2025 releases, with Lilo & Stitch and...

It always hurts me when an animated project turns out to be bad, not on a technical level, but on a storytelling level. If the designs for the world-building, the characters, the backgrounds, the foregrounds, the action sequences, the expressions on the faces of the characters, and everything else that you are seeing visually are awful, it’s really easy to say that I didn’t like looking at it. I can appreciate the ambition and whatnot, but I don’t have to split hairs over why it didn’t work for me. Things are different when I love everything that I am looking at, but I don’t feel any emotions. Then it’s the fault of either the characters’ motivations, the lack of emotional stakes, or just the needless overcomplication of a narrative that isn’t as complex as the writers think it is. Recently, it has happened with Kung Fu Panda 4,...

Enter How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk and experience the magic of real-life dragons in a way you never have before.

DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon series quickly became one of the most celebrated and beloved animated franchises in history. With the new live action adaptation hitting cinemas on June 13th, its popularity will certainly soar like… well like a dragon. But fans don’t have to wait until Hiccup and Toothless make their way to the big screen to experience the magic in live action. With How to Train Your Dragon — Isle of Berk at Universal Epic Universe, guests will get an up-close, in person encounter with dragons!

Enter the Isle of Berk!

Guests will enter the Isle of Berk through a massive “Portal.” These portals are how guests enter each of the four different worlds: Dark Universe, Super Nintendo World, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Ministry of Magic and,...

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Live-Action Confirmed? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon series remains one of the most beloved modern animated franchises, with its emotional storytelling and breathtaking visuals earning critical and commercial acclaim. The original 2010 film and its two sequels formed a near-perfect trilogy, bringing Hiccup and Toothless’ journey to a satisfying conclusion. But in Hollywood’s era of live-action reimagining, it was only a matter of time before these films received the same treatment.

With the first live-action How To Train Your Dragon set to release in 2025, Universal has wasted no time confirming its sequel. The live-action How To Train Your Dragon 2 has officially been announced, with a release date now locked in for 2027. Dean DeBlois, the mastermind behind the original animated trilogy, revealed the news at CinemaCon. This rapid confirmation suggests Universal is fully committed to expanding the franchise in a live-action format.

Audiences at CinemaCon this morning got their first look at the live-action remake of “How to Train Your Dragon,” the first time it’s premiered ahead of its release this summer. But Universal is so sky high on the film, the studio announced during its CinemaCon presentation Wednesday that it has already greenlit a sequel.

Universal has dated “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” yet another live-action adaptation of the DreamWorks Animated film, to open in theaters June 11, 2027. It opens a week after “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” which Sony also just dated during its CinemaCon presentation.

Director Dean DeBlois — this franchise has been his baby since the very first animated film back in 2010 — will be back in the director’s chair for the sequel.

“How to Train Your Dragon 2” is an adaptation of the 2014 film specifically, not a new story extending off the live-action film. That film detailed heroes...

Hiccup and Toothless will return to the big screen in 2027. A live-action adaptation of “How to Train Your Dragon 2” is currently in the works, Universal Pictures announced on Wednesday during its presentation at CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners.

The movie will soar to theaters on June 11, 2027. On its current release date, “How to Train Your Dragon 2” will open a week after Sony’s animated “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.”

News of the sequel comes two months ahead of the theatrical release of the live-action “How to Train Your Dragon” on June 13. Earlier on Wednesday, Universal screened the remake for the first time at CinemaCon to enthusiastic reviews.

“We are so excited to give your theaters a big summer title in two years time,” the franchise’s veteran director Dean DeBlois said on stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He was joined by Gerard Butler, who portrays Stoick the Vast,...

April 2025 is bringing plenty of exciting new shows, movies, and events to Peacock! Whether you’re into thrilling dramas, comedies, or family-friendly content, there’s something for everyone. In this article, we’ll take a look at all the fresh titles you can enjoy next month on the streaming service. Get ready for some great entertainment!

1. Girl You Know It’s True (April 4)

Girl You Know It’s True (2023) is a film that tells the story of dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, who gained fame in the late 80s as the pop duo Milli Vanilli. Despite their success, the duo never actually sang on their songs or debut album.

When the truth about their lip-syncing was exposed, it led to one of the biggest scandals in music history. The film is directed and written by Simon Verhoeven and stars Tijan Njie, Elan Ben Ali, and Matthias Schweighöfer.

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Six new character posters for DreamWorks Animation’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon, a remake of the 2010 animated fantasy movie, have been revealed via the official How to Train Your Dragon X account.

The newly unveiled posters show the highly-anticipated live-action versions of Night Fury, Deadly Nadder, Monstrous Nightmare, Hideous Zippleback, Gruesome Gronckle, and the Terrible Terror. The main characters in the film, Hiccup (Mason Thames) and Astrid (Nico Parker) are shown in two separate posters riding Night Fury (Toothless) and Deadly Nadder, respectively.

Each poster is accompanied by a caption and a promotion ofHow to Train Your Dragon’s June 13 theatrical release date. The posters can be seen in the X posts below.

Hang on tight. #HowToTrainYourDragon - In Theaters June 13. pic.twitter.com/htEK5orUqK— #HowToTrainYourDragon (@HTTYDragon) March 27, 2025Sharp spikes, sharper instincts. #HowToTrainYourDragon - In Theaters June 13. pic.twitter.com/KasGnGJktC— #HowToTrainYourDragon (@HTTYDragon) March 27, 2025Embrace firepower. #HowToTrainYourDragon - In Theaters June 13. pic.

As much as fans of the How to Train Your Dragon feel this live-action remake is unnecessary, the original’s writer/director, Dean DeBlois, returns to the Viking world for this entry. “I decided to revisit How to Train Your Dragon because it felt like an amazing opportunity to not only direct a live-action movie but to be jumping back into a world that I frankly miss,” DeBlois says. “I miss these characters. I miss this world, and I love movies that have a really poignant message buried deep within a moving spectacle. Adventure, wonder. That’s what this movie really packs. It’s about a regular kid who gets to bond with a powerful animal and there is something that’s universally wish fufilling about that,” He added.

Now, you can get a better look at the characters and their mystical, fire-breathing, flying counterparts with newly released posters from...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in April. The Peacock April 2025 schedule includes the Original documentary WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle, offering a behind-the-scenes look and featuring never-before-seen footage of the 1993 Las Vegas extravaganza that promised fans a WWE event unlike any other.

Plus, don’t miss WrestleMania 41 on Saturday, April 19, and Sunday, April 20, at 7 Et/4 Pt, streaming Live on Peacock. The action doesn’t stop there; April 17 marks the highly anticipated return of Detective Elliot Stabler in Peacock’s Original Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5.

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For a dose of nostalgia, come and knock on our door – Three’s Company is coming to Peacock on March 31! Stream all eight seasons of the beloved ’70s sitcom and relive the hilarious hijinks of Jack, Janet, and Chrissy. Speaking of TV neighbors that we love,...

A live-action reboot of the 2010s DreamWorks animated fantasy trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon, is set to premiere in a couple of months, and as timing would have it, fans can catch up on the originals just in time for the live-action film. The entire How to Train Your Dragon trilogy will hit Peacock on April 1.

The first film, released in 2010, earned $494.8 million worldwide and starred Jay Baruchel as the voice of Hiccup, Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, and America Ferrera as Astrid. The movie follows Hiccup, a misfit Viking teenager who tries to change the course of the future of his people after he makes friends with an injured dragon named Toothless. The first film has a nearly-perfect Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 99%.

The 2 Sequels Were Box Office Hits

How to Train Your Dragon 2 dropped in 2014 and also featured Baruchel, Butler, and Ferrera, with the addition...

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Animation lovers, rejoice! Shrek is coming back to the big screens in late 2026. This DreamWorks franchise is easily one of the most popular animated properties of this century. So a new film should have united fans both young and old, right? Right? Not exactly, as all anyone can talk about online is the new design of the characters in Shrek 5. It's difficult to define just what exactly is upsetting fans, but it mostly boils down to Shrek looking "different."

This redesign isn't that unexpected, as it's been nearly 16 years since the last Shrek movie. CGI animation has improved in that time, with DreamWorks utilizing new technological methods. It's also been a full 25 years since the inaugural Shrek film, released when CGI was in its infancy. Each of the three subsequent films preserved most of the designs...

Dean DeBlois wrote and directed all three of the animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, which were inspired by the series of books by written by Cressida Cowell. Now DeBlois has written, directed, and produced a live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon – and now it’s gotten an official premiere date. The movie will be making its world premiere at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 2nd. Other movies that recently premiered at this exhibitors covention (which we’ll be attending) include Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Flash and Top Gun: Maverick.

How to Train Your Dragon focuses on the special friendship between a young and unheroic Viking boy named Hiccup, and Toothless, an injured dragon he nurses back to health. The movies chronicled Hiccup and Toothless’ quest to combat humanity’s prejudice against dragons, the ache of overcoming the loss of a parent, and first love.

The live-action...

“How to Train Your Dragon” will screen for audiences for the first time at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theater owners.

The world premiere will take place on April 2 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, more than two months ahead of the film’s theatrical release on June 13.

CinemaCon will undoubtedly be a receptive audience, but unveiling “How to Train Your Dragon” in this capacity signals Universal’s confidence in the movie’s commercial prospects. In previous years, CinemaCon attendees were first to see Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” and Warner Bros. and DC’s “The Flash.”

Screening “How to Train Your Dragon” will help to build buzz for the live-action remake, which lands in multiplexes amid a packed summer season. Also on the calendar over the four hottest months of the year, there’s Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” (May 2), Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” remake and...

Dean DeBlois knows a thing or two about dragons. And, yes, how to train them. Back in 2015, he directed DreamWorks’ beloved coming-of-age fantasy How To Train Your Dragon alongside Chris Sanders, beginning the tale of friendship between Viking boy Hiccup and his Night Fury dragon pal Toothless – one that DeBlois continued into 2014’s How To Train Your Dragon 2, before concluding in 2018’s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. So, when Universal mooted a live-action remake of the first film in the saga, they went to the man who knew the story best – and rather than pass it on to another filmmaker, he felt there was more to explore.

“Chris Sanders and I were brought in as a replacement writer and director team on that first film,” DeBlois tells Empire at the release of the How To Train Your Dragon trailer. “We had 15 months to rewrite and push the movie through production.

The highly-anticipated How to Train Your Dragonlive-action film just received another update from one of its stars. Gerard Butler, who voiced Stoick the Vast in the original animated How to Train Your Dragon in 2010, is back in the same role for the live-action movie, and per Screen Rant, via The Direct, said the new movie is a lot more “scary” than the animated version.

Butler said going from the iconic DreamWorks animated feature to live-action has made everything seem more real and immersive. “I just saw a rough cut. So there really were maybe 20% special effects done. And I get goosebumps when I think about it,” said the Den of Thievesstar. “It was amazing and so powerful. And then you see parts of it where they are closer to being done, and your jaw just drops,” he said.

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The idea of animated features getting live-action remakes is nothing new, but the production of live-action remakes has obviously shifted into overdrive in recent years, with Disney bringing us the likes of Cinderella, The Jungle Book (again), Beauty and the Beast, Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Lady and the Tramp, Mulan, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid… the list goes on. And it seems like DreamWorks has been impressed by that animation-to-live-action business model, as they’re teaming up with Universal Pictures to bring a live-action remake of their 2010 animated feature How to Train Your Dragon to theatres on June 13, 2025. In anticipation of this release, we here at JoBlo have decided to put together a list of Everything We Know About the live-action How to Train Your Dragon… and here we go:

Story

It all started with a novel by Cressida Cowell. Published in 2003, the novel How to Train Your Dragon...

How to Train Your Dragon fans will have to wait until June 13 for the live-action version of the film, but a new image from the movie just dropped. USA Today published the image from the movie featuring Hiccup (Mason Thames) and Astrid (Nico Parker) looking like they are gearing up for battle.

The photo shows Hiccup holding a Viking-style horned helmet in one hand and a weapon in the other. Astrid, facing her friend, is holding a battleaxe and looks to be preparing for a fight. The photo can be viewed below.

Image via Universal Pictures Original Trilogy Director is Back for the Live-Action Film

The live-action take on 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon is helmed by Dean DeBlois, who also wrote and directed the original animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. The new live-action version is a reimagining of the 2010 movie and will feature a cast that...

While there may still be some uncertainty from fans of the franchise about the movie, Gerard Butler has some very positive things to say about the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake. Butler is one of the few creatives from the original animated trilogy to be returning for the remake, reprising his role as Stoick the Vast, father to protagonist Hiccup and chieftain of the Viking village of Berk. Alongside Butler, the How to Train Your Dragon cast includes Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James and Harry Tevaldwyn.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight for the upcoming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Butler was asked what he could share about the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake. He began by humorously acknowledging how challenging it was to be fitted with Stoick's various hair prosthetics, though went on to share...

The new live-action remake How to Train Your Dragon may not be coming to theaters until the summer of 2025, but a new teaser image was just released. Screen Rant shared the new picture, which shows Hiccup (Mason Thames) and Astrid (Nico Parker) hiding from what looks like an intense battle.

The image shared shows Hiccup and Astrid lying together and peering from beneath a wooden palette looking scared, but also a bit curious. It can be seen below.

The Remake Is Directed by the Original Dragon Trilogy Director

The new movie is directed by Dean DeBlois, who also directed the original animated trilogy, which was based on a novel by Cressida Cowell. The fantasy film is a reimagining of 2010’s animated How to Train Your Dragon. The remake will feature a cast that includes Gerard Butler, who is reprising his role as Stoick the Vast. The first film grossed about...

The How to Train Your Dragon franchise was an incredibly popular series of animated films produced by Universal Studios. Beginning with How to Train Your Dragon in 2010, the series followed Hiccup, a teenage boy living on an island plagued by dragon attacks. Throughout the film, Hiccup trains with his peers to slay the dragons, but when he comes across an injured Night Fury dragon, the two end up becoming unlikely lifelong friends.

The first film saw massive critical and box office success, grossing a worldwide total of $494 million, and a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was followed by two sequels: How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in 2019. With the rise of live-action adaptations, the franchise is finally getting the live-action treatment, produced by Universal.

Updated by Alex Roush on December 10, 2024: The How to Train Your Dragon franchise...

With many wondering why DreamWorks chose to adapt How to Train Your Dragon into live-action, the studio's teaser trailer confirms a major fear about the upcoming remake. Announced in February 2023, the new movie has been in the works for around two years. The project is recalling writer/director Dean DeBlois, who has been one of the most heavily involved creatives with the Dragons movie franchise to date. Those familiar with the original will probably experience very few surprises when watching the live-action version, begging the question of why a live-action How to Train Your Dragon cast has been assembled.

The animated How to Train Your Dragon movies and TV shows create a sprawling saga of the shifting dynamic between the franchise's Vikings and their scaly adversaries-turned-allies. However, the upcoming remake won't slot into the vast continuity that already exists but instead appears to be starting from scratch. DreamWorks isn't the...

The first teaser trailer for the live action adaptation of Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon provided a clear look at the aesthetic of the remake, and the design for the dragon Toothless should ease the concerns of all fans of the multimedia franchise. The original series is among the most successful animated franchises of all time, both from a commercial and a critical perspective. How to Train Your Dragon is slated for a June 2025 release, and given how beloved the trilogy is, there was plenty of trepidation about how the characters and creatures would translate to live action.

Fortunately, the first teaser seems to have assuaged some of the angst about the live action's faithfulness to the original. As How to Train Your Dragon's original director has noted, there was always going to be continuity between the original animated movie and the live action treatment given that Dean DeBlois,...

Things are heating up for Hiccup and Toothless in the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures’ live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon.

Writer-director Dean DeBlois’ feature hits theaters June 13, 2025, and is a shot-for-shot remake of DreamWorks Animation’s hit animated film of the same name that was released in 2010. The new version stars Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. Rounding out the cast are Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz and Murray McArthur.

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon centers on a young Viking named Hiccup (Thames), who sets out to hunt dragons but finds himself befriending one named Toothless.

“Dad, I can’t kill dragons,” he says in the trailer to his father, Stoick the Vast (Butler, reprising his role from the animated franchise). Hiccup’s dad responds firmly, “But you will.”

DeBlois, who...

Buckle up folks — we're flying back to Berk! Five years after DreamWorks bid a tearful farewell to Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his beloved scaly boi Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Dean DeBlois is mounting an ambitious live-action reimagining of the beloved franchise for, well, not quite a whole new generation (it has only been five years), but at least a new audience who may have somehow missed one of the defining animated film series of modern times. And if the eye-widening first teaser trailer for the movie is anything to go by, then it looks like fans and newcomers alike won't be disappointed by what DeBlois and co have in store:

Catch us going all Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood watching this one. Look! It's Gerard Butler's Viking dad Stoick in live-action! Look! It's Berk in live-action! Look! It's...

The first trailer has been revealed for the new How to Train Your Dragon film. The story of Hiccup and Toothless originated as a DreamWorks animated film in 2010. From there, How to Train Your Dragon became a film trilogy that included How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in 2019. Since then, a live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon was announced, and is now set for release next year. The film features a leading cast including Julian Dennsion, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Gerard Butler, and Mason Thames.

Now, Universal Pictures has released the trailer for How to Train Your Dragon.

The trailer opens with a long shot of this versions imagining of Berk, the Nordic island in which How to Train Your Dragon is set. The voice of Stoick speaks to Hiccup, saying "when you carry this ax, you carry all of us with you.

Hiccup and Toothless are finally in live-action for the first time ever.

Universal Studios has released the first trailer for its live-action adaptation of “How to Train Your Dragon,” after the popular DreamWorks Animation trilogy was released in the 2010s. The new movie flies into theaters on June 13.

The live-action version includes many of the original characters played by new faces. Among these are Mason Thames (“The Black Phone”) as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid and Julian Dennison (“Deadpool 2”) as Fishlegs Ingerman. Gerard Butler plays Hiccup’s father Stoick the Vast, after the voiced the character in the animated trilogy.

The trailer introduces Hiccup, Stoick and Toothless, who look exactly like their animated counterparts. As part of his viking training, Hiccup is instructed to go out and kill a dragon, but instead he befriends the adorable dragon Toothless.

Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed all three animated “How to Train Your Dragon” movies,...

This years The Wild Robot from Universal/DreamWorks Animation has achieved another milestone, marking a worldwide box office take of $300.5 million against its production budget of $78 million, through Nov. 15. Per Deadline, the movie, which has both a 98% critic and a 98% audience score, has surpassed $134 million domestically, making it the No. 2 non-sequel studio film of the year behind It Ends with Us. Its also the No. 4 animated studio movie of the year, just behind Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4 and Kung Fu Panda 4.

The Wild Robot boasts an all-star voice cast with the likes of Lupita Nyongo, Pedro Pascal, Mark Hamill, Bill Nighy, Catherine OHara, Kit Connor Dee Bradley Baker, and Ving Rhames. It is directed by Chris Sanders, who also wrote the script based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Peter Brown.

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A Disney / Pixar and Dreamworks Animation key animator who worked for years at the studios has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex crimes against young girls. The charges included “complicity in repeated rapes and sexual assaults on minors, human trafficking, and child pornography offenses.”

All his “offenses” were alleged to have occurred between 2012 and 2021 while he lived in France and the United States.

Bolhem Bouchib, 59, was placed on France’s sex offender registry in 2014 after sexually assaulting his partner’s eight-year-old daughter. He was later arrested in 2021 and has remained in prison since his arrest.

Somehow Bouchib continued to work for American animation studios.

Bouchib worked on big hits like “Hercules,” “Lilo and Stitch,” “Ratatouille,” “Up,” and “The Incredibles” before he was added to the sex offender registry. However, he continued to work on Disney and Pixar films, including “Soul,” “Incredibles 2,” “Luca,” and “Elemental” after he was on the registry for years.

Exclusive: Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Billy Magnussen (Roadhouse) have been set to star in Steve Pink’s out-there horse racing comedy Chariot.

This sounds a fun one. The synopsis reads: “Paul Rovia, an oversized jockey, seeks redemption after causing a major racing accident that gets him suspended from the sport for two years. Desperate to compete in the Grand National again, Paul teams up with Kate O’Leary and her wild Centaur named Chariot. Paul and Chariot clash at first but eventually form an unstoppable duo, taking the racing world by storm.”

Pink is known for writing Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity and directed Hot Tub Time Machine, About Last Night and most recently The Wheel.

The Exchange is launching worldwide sales on the movie at the upcoming American Film Market. The sales deal was negotiated by Brian O’Shea on behalf of The Exchange and by Lastine Entertainment Lawon behalf of the filmmakers.

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In its opening weekend alone, The Wild Robot proved that it is capable of achieving financial and critical success by the end of its run. It thrived at the box office, taking the top spot for the week over Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million Megalopolis. While Megalopolis has proven to be a complete financial disaster at the box office, the DreamWorks Animation hit is still impressive compared to other September animated releases.

The movie showcases the story of a shipwrecked robot desperately trying to survive on an island. It features an all-star cast that includes Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, and Mark Hamill. It was based on Peter Brown's book,...

For the second weekend in a row, we get an animated feature featuring robots for family audiences, but this week also gets a lot of odds and ends. As has been the case for the past few months, any weekend with just one or two wide releases is then followed by a weekend with way too many movies, and this weekend seems to be one of the latter. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

The big release of the weekend is “The Wild Robot,” the latest from DreamWorks Animation, based on book by Pete Brown. It stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as a server robot stranded in the wilderness who ends up becoming imprinted on by a baby gosling, having to figure out how to care for it with the help of a crafty fox, voiced by Pedro Pascal. Other characters are voiced by Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy,...

The Wild Robot has broken a DreamWorks record with its Rotten Tomatoes debut. The new movie, which was written and directed by How to Train Your Dragon co-director Chris Sanders, is based on the Peter Brown book of the same name and follows a malfunctioning robot who lands on a desert island and begins to bond with a young gosling, accidentally reprogramming herself along the way. The Wild Robot movie is only the fourth non-franchise title released by DreamWorks in the 2020s after The Bad Guys, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, and Orion and the Dark.

Rotten Tomatoes has now compiled 25 different critics' reviews of The Wild Robot, including some early reviews out of the movie's Toronto International Film Festival premiere on September 8. At the time of writing, the movie's Tomatometer score is a perfect 100%. While the score will likely fluctuate as more reviews are added, for the moment it is...

There's no denying Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the franchise's main protagonist, but How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World gives a terrifying glimpse of what could have been had Berk's young chieftain made a different decision at a pivotal moment in the story. Hiccup's kindness and refusal to turn to violence until absolutely necessary is what set the run of How to Train Your Dragon movies and TV shows in motion. However, if these traits had failed him during a key scene from the first movie, the story would have been unrecognizable.

The How to Train Your Dragon franchise is filled with thrilling dragon fights, but the underlying message is that peace is always the desired option. Hiccup is at the heart of Berk's drastic change when it comes to the community's attitude toward dragons. In a particularly compelling moment in the movie trilogy's final installment, the...

The How To Train Your Dragon film franchise began in 2010 with the original DreamWorks movie following a struggling young Viking Hiccup and his unlikely pet dragon Toothless.

Since its release, two successors rounded out the animated trilogy, and several short films and TV series were spun off based on the hit movie franchise.

In general, the franchise has not been in the public eye since How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World was released in 2019. However, behind the scenes, How to Train Your Dragon is set for a massive resurgence.

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