With the box office success of “How to Train Your Dragon” (taking in nearly $197 million worldwide opening weekend), fans are itching to watch the fantasy adventure movie again and again at home. If you can’t make it to the movie theater,

How to Train Your Dragon has set an audience score record for live-action adaptations of animated films, compared to all the Disney entries.

Dreamworks' first go at a live-action remake with 'How to Train Your Dragon' is a success. A second live-action remake has hit theaters with Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon, and shocker, it’s taking off big.

How to Train Your Dragon has outpaced many recently released films and here, we talk about its box office collection.

Arguably the most famous scene from the How to Train Your Dragon franchise is the boop. You know the boop. It's the moment when Viking teen Hiccup and adorable Night Fury Toothless make a genuine connection for the first time, with the dragon's nose pressing into Hiccup's hand.

The live-action adaptation of the 2010 animated film is firing on all cylinders, while Celine Song's specialty romantic drama 'Materialists' opened in third place.

While Dean Fleischer Camp's Lilo & Stitch has dominated the weekend box office since it premiered just ahead of Memorial Day, one live-action remake has defeated another, as How To Train Your Dragon is the new number one movie in the United States and Canada. Check out the early reported results below and join me after for analysis.

Jeremy Fuster, Film Reporter, joined TheWrap in 2016 and covers box office and labor news. He received a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for his coverage of the 2023 WGA Strike and was nominated by the LA Press Club as Best Entertainment Journalist. He can be reached at [email protected].

As Hiccup, the 17-year-old actor is shouldering the weight of Universal’s new live-action franchise — and living out his childhood fantasy.

The live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon has only just soared into theaters, and a sequel is already underway. In fact, it was announced back in April at CinemaCon 2025, well before the film,