How To Train Your Dragon Box Office Surpassed The Best-Rated Hobbit Movie In This All-Time Genre Chart

How to Train Your Dragon continues to climb up a major all-time box office chart. The 2025 movie is a live-action remake of DreamWorks’ 2010 animated movie of the same name, which itself was loosely based on the children’s book series by Cressida Cowell. The 2010 title launched an animated trilogy that collectively grossed more than $1.6 billion.

The 2025 How to Train Your Dragon release kicked off on June 13, earning the best opening weekend of the franchise with an $84.6 million domestic debut and eventually rising past the $600 million milestone worldwide.

Per The Numbers, How to Train Your Dragon has now risen to a cumulative domestic box office total of $258.69 million, adding nearly $500,000 on Thursday alone during the waning days of its theatrical run. This has been the case despite the movie already being available for rental and purchase at home via premium video on demand.

This total sees the movie continuing to climb the chart of the highest-grossing fantasy movies of all time at the domestic box office, surpassing the highest-rated Hobbit movie to hit No. 23. That title would be 2013’s The Desolation of Smaug, which has a Certified Fresh 74% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $258.2 million in North America.

What This Means For How to Train Your Dragon

It Probably Won’t Crack The Top 20

2025’s How to Train Your Dragon is slowing down, but it only needs to make $4.89 million more at the domestic box office in order to climb another slot up the all-time fantasy chart, surpassing the $263.58 million domestic gross of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Below, see a breakdown of the movies that stand between How to Train Your Dragon and the Top 20 and the all-time fantasy chart:

Box Office Theory’s projections for How to Train Your Dragon show it earning an additional $1.8 million between Friday and Sunday, bringing it considerably closer to that goal.

However, even if it climbs to No. 22, it ultimately seems unlikely to find a place in the Top 20, which is dominated by titles from blockbuster franchises including Harry Potter, Twilight, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings and requires it to earn at least an additional $32.46 million, which seems well outside the realm of possibility.

Our Take On The How to Train Your Dragon Box Office Update

It Doesn’t Need To Climb Any Higher

Missing out on a place in the Top 20 does not mean that the 2025 movie has failed in any way. It is already a titanic success, more than justifying the fact that DreamWorks greenlit the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon 2 before the new movie had even debuted.

Its domestic gross alone has surpassed the reported $150 million budget of How to Train Your Dragon, and its global total more than quadruples that number. Because most movies only need to make two and a half times their budgets in order to break even, the live-action remake has more than cemented itself as a hit.

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Source: The Numbers & Box Office Theory