‘How to Train Your Dragon’ redo reheats box office with an $83.7M opening weekend

Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of June 13-15, 2025.

1. How to Train Your Dragon

Weekend gross: $83.7M
Total domestic gross: $83.7M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

I guess if you want to dethrone a live-action remake, you gotta come with your own live-action remake. Universal Pictures ended the three-weekend reign of Disney’s Lilo & Stitch redo with its glossy How to Train Your Dragon rehash, scoring an impressive $83.7 million opening weekend in the process.

That debut is easily the franchise’s best, outdoing the original How to Train Your Dragon’s $43.7 million, How to Train Your Dragon 2’s $49.5 million and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’s $55 million.

In terms of studio-versus-studio competition, the new How To Train Your Dragon scored well against recent live-action remakes from Disney. While Lilo & Stitch is in another league with its $146 million three-day opener, How to Train Your Dragon outperformed Snow White ($42.2 million) and Mufasa: The Lion King ($35.4 million).

I like that we’ve come to grade these live-action remakes on a curve, scoring them against only each other. Everyone knows that they’re not real movies. The original Lilo & Stitch was a quirky animated film that grew into a beloved classic. The original How to Train Your Dragon was the first time DreamWorks Animation showed that it could tell a story that rivaled the best of what Pixar was doing during that studio’s insane early run.

Money is money — and that’s what matters to these studios — but we all know that these live-action remakes are just going through the motions.

2. Lilo & Stitch

Weekend gross: $15.5M
Total domestic gross: $366.4M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 52

Despite falling to the No. 2 spot, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch remake adding another $15.5 million to its domestic haul this weekend, putting it within sight of the $400 million mark. Does it have the legs to catch up to and pass A Minecraft Movie, which currently sits at $423.7 million after ten weekends?