Dean DeBlois' live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon has soared past $190 million worldwide within just a few days of its release and is set to soon cross $200 million. $114 million revenue came from overseas markets, thanks to good word-of-mouth reviews and critical rating from reviewers.
The film currently has the fourth-best global opening behind A Minecraft Movie, Lilo & Stitch and China’s Ne Zha 2 and is the seventh biggest for a live-action remake after Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo & Stitch, The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland and Aladdin.
Meanwhile, Disney's Lilo & Stitch, which recently crossed the $800 million mark, is stomping its way to $900 million, a milestone it will hit soon and attain the landmark $1 billion mark. When it does, the film directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, will become the first Hollywood movie of 2025 to cross $1 billion at global box office.
The film follows an alien who accidentally comes to Hawaii, where a girl adopts it alongside her elder sibling. Chris Sanders, who co-directed the original 2002 film, reprised his voice role of Stitch. The other members of the cast include Maia Kealoha as Lilo, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong as Nani and Kaipot Dudoit as David Kawena. Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Courtney B Vance and Hannah Waddingham are part of the supporting cast along with Tia Carrere, Amy Hill and Jason Scott Lee who were a part of the original.
Camp directed the new film from a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright. The original animated feature was written and directed by Chris Sanders along with Dean DeBlois in their feature directorial debuts
How To Train Your Dragon is a remake of the DreamWorks Animation's hit eponymous animated film series, which was released in 2010, stars Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. Gerard Butler plays Hiccup's father Stoick the Vast. The supporting cast also features Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz and Murray McArthur.
The film series, based on a book series by Cressida Cowell, revolves around the adventures of an eccentric teenage Viking, Hiccup, who stumbles across an injured dragon one day in the mythical Viking village of Berk. Hiccup names the dragon Toothless, and the pair forms an unbreakable and iconic bond throughout the series.
