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How to Train Your Dragon

2010 PG 1h 38m Action, Adventure, Animation DreamWorks

What started as fire and fury will become friendship.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$218M
Final
Opening Weekend
$43.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
4.98x
Opening → Total
Budget
$165M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$495M
$277M international
2010 Rank
#9
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Mar 26-28 1 $43.7M $43.7M 4,055 $11K 1
Apr 2-4 3 $29.0M -33.7% $92.1M 4,060 $7K 2
Apr 9-11 3 $24.9M -14.3% $133.4M 4,007 $6K 3
Apr 16-18 2 $19.6M -21.0% $158.3M 3,825 $5K 4
Apr 23-25 1 $15.4M -21.8% $178.3M 3,665 $4K 5
Apr 30-May 2 2 $10.6M -30.9% $192.2M 3,426 $3K 6
May 7-9 3 $6.7M -37.1% $201.0M 3,003 $2K 7
May 14-16 5 $5.0M -25.1% $207.6M 2,620 $2K 8
May 21-23 9 $1.9M -62.0% $211.0M 1,751 $1K 9
May 28-30 10 $1.2M -39.5% $212.8M 825 $1K 10
Jun 4-6 14 $488K -57.6% $213.9M 343 $1K 11
Jun 11-13 17 $330K -32.3% $214.4M 281 $1K 12
Jun 18-20 29 $167K -49.4% $214.8M 213 $784 13
Jun 25-27 16 $477K +185.8% $215.4M 333 $1K 14
Jul 2-4 21 $342K -28.4% $216.2M 303 $1K 15
Jul 9-11 22 $318K -7.0% $216.9M 258 $1K 16
Jul 16-18 24 $237K -25.3% $217.4M 228 $1K 17

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byChris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
ScreenplayChris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, William Davies
Produced byBonnie Arnold
CinematographyGil Zimmerman
MusicJohn Powell
Prod. DesignKathy Altieri
StarringJay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
StudioDreamWorks