Borrowing a page from the Disney game book is to repay the high time for Universal at the box office, where the live remake of DreamWorks Animation How to train your dragon Open to 83.7 million dollars in series at national level and $ 197.8 million worldwide, according to Sunday estimates. This includes enormous international transport of $ 114.1 million in 81 markets.
Accelerated from Elogieux Cinéphiles Elogieux Exit scores – including a cinemascore and a note almost 98% on Rotten Tomatoes – The photo of the summer event wins the two families And Singles younger adults who grew up on the lively franchise. It is the same phenomenon that transformed the live action of Disney Lilo & Stitch In a box office blockbuster. Example: almost half of those rushed to see How to train your dragon Friday, General Zers between 13 and 24 years old was the first time that DreamWorks Animation, now owned by Universal, made a live interpretation, with an already dated 2027 sequel.
The film has one of the 10 best departures of all time for live reimagination, including the largest seventh at the world box office, the eighth largest national and the sixth largest international, where it began to play in previews last weekend on 51 markets. These brushes were folded in the opening of $ 114.1 million, led by Mexico with $ 14 million and followed by the United Kingdom ($ 11.4 million) and China ($ 11.2), where it supplanted Lilo & Stitch To boast of the biggest opening day for live adaptation in five years. It is also the best opening of Friday without a safe blow for any title Hollywood in 2025. And – fueled by the best social audience scores of 2025 for a Hollywood title – The Brut of Saturday almost doubled Friday gains to mark the best increase from Friday to Saturday of the year to date.
Other statistics: in North America, it is the eighth best opening of all time for the Father’s Day weekend and the fourth largest opening of the year to date. Some rivals show that the film is close to $ 86 million at the national level; The final brushes will be published Monday morning.
The regular dean Dean Deblois franchise returned to direct the live remake of his 2010 film on a young Viking boy named Hiccup (Mason Thames) who ignores the wishes of his father (Gerard Butler) and befriends a dragon of dreaded night fury. The photo cost $ 150 million to produce before marketing.
How to train your dragon Too at the top of Friday in North America with a powerful $ 35.6 million in 4,356 theaters, including $ 11.1 million in preview. This represents less than $ 10 million compared to the total opening of three days of the 2010 photo, which started with $ 43.7 million, not adjusted for inflation. And it will be easily the highest opening in the series, by supplanting Threequel 2019 How to train your dragon: the hidden world ($ 55 million).
After having governed the perch for three consecutive weekends and broke many records, Lilo & Stitch brought in about $ 15.5 million at the national level from 3,675 locations to place second, while earning additional $ 31.1 million abroad while exceeding $ 850 million worldwide. It is an impressive program given the competition of How to train your dragon. Consumption Now has won $ 366.4 million at national level and $ 492 million abroad for a global total of $ 858.4 million, making it the second most profitable title behind year A minecraft film ($ 950 million.) Also during the weekend, he exceeded all domestic races of other live titles The Jungle Book ($ 364 million) and Alladdin ($ 356 million), not adjusted. Other live action photos that Lilo had already surpassed include 2023 The little mermaidwhich brought in $ 298 million at the national level.
The specialized offer of the filmmaker Celine Song MaterialistS opened in third place with a larger than expected of $ 12 million, going from 2,844 cinemas to mark the third largest opening of the A24 of all time Civil war ($ 25.5 million) and Hereditary ($ 13.5 million), not adjusted. Like other specialized and independent distributors, the A24 has often relied on the versions of the platform, but opens up more and more its titles nationwide.
The star romantic drama of Song presents Dakota Johnson as an ambitious in New Yorkers who combine clients with rich partners who are done in imprint in a love triangle with his former flame in difficulty (Chris Evans) and a high-power executive (Pedro Pascal). Song herself has worked as a contribution as a way to support her dreams of becoming a filmmaker.
Critics like Materialists– The tracking of the song at Past – More than moviegoers. The film received a disturbing b-cinemascore from ticket buyers, while the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is a lukewarm of 70%. A24 is convinced that solid criticism will nevertheless provide the specialty film with long legs.
How to train your dragon has a huge advantage in taking control of IMAX screens that belonged to Paramount and Skydance Mission: Impossible – The last calculation For three weekends, but Tom Cruise Starrer fell only 31% during his fourth outing to $ 10.3 million, compared to 2,942 theaters for a national count of $ 166.3 million. Globally, Tentpole has crossed the $ 500 million mark after earning additional $ 21 million abroad for an international index of $ 340.5 million and $ 506.8 million worldwide.
Dragon Also play in many other large format screens this weekend. All in all, premium screens are responsible for 40% of the brut of the photo to date.
Spinoff John Wick of Lionsgate Ballerina continued to fight in its second weekend, at least in the United States, despite the outings of the stellar public and solid criticism. The photo of action led by women, with the newcomer Ana franchise Ana de Armas, dropped from 62% to approximately $ 9.4 million for a national 10 -day count of $ 41.8 million.
June 15, 7:15 am: Updated with revised estimates.
This story was initially published on June 14 at 10:13 a.m.
