How To Train Your Dragon headed for Rs 10 cr weekend

The live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon continues to soar astatine the Indian container office, with aboriginal numbers indicating a Rs 10 crore play connected the horizon. After a coagulated Day 1 postulation of Rs 2.15 crore, the movie saw a singular boost connected Saturday, raking successful an estimated Rs 4.39 crore connected Day 2—doubling its erstwhile day’s earnings.Released connected June 13, 2025, successful IMAX 3D, the phantasy escapade movie has struck a chord with audiences crossed languages. The English mentation unsocial has brought successful Rs 4.09 crore truthful far, with the Hindi-dubbed mentation contributing Rs 1.58 crore. The Tamil and Telugu editions person besides held strong, earning a combined Rs 92 lakh, underscoring the film’s pan-India appeal.Internationally, How to Train Your Dragon is flying precocious with aboriginal estimates predicting a franchise-best home opening of $82.7 cardinal successful North America and a planetary full of $200.8 million.

Of that, a monolithic $117.7 cardinal comes from 53 planetary markets. On Friday alone, the movie topped the North American container bureau with $35.6 million, including $11.1 cardinal successful preview earnings—putting it conscionable nether $10 cardinal down the opening play numbers of the archetypal 2010 animated film.Critics and audiences are responding overwhelmingly positively, with the movie holding a 99% Audience Score connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Directed by Dean DeBlois—who returns to helm the communicative helium archetypal brought to life—the remake blends the affectional extent of the archetypal with visually affluent live-action storytelling.At the bosom of this reimagining is Mason Thames arsenic Hiccup, the inventive young Viking whose enslaved with the elusive Night Fury, Toothless, becomes a awesome of empathy and bravery. BAFTA nominee Nico Parker shines arsenic the fearless Astrid, portion Gerard Butler reprises his commanding relation arsenic Stoick the Vast, Hiccup’s formidable begetter and Berk’s chief.Set successful a satellite wherever dragons are seen arsenic enemies, the communicative follows Hiccup’s prime to spare a dragon’s life—a infinitesimal that transforms not conscionable his destiny, but the aboriginal of his people. The live-action mentation reinforces the coming-of-age themes that made the archetypal beloved portion adding caller affectional and ocular layers.