How to Train Your Dragon Box Office: Budgets and Grosses by Film

The How to Train Your Dragon box office comes to about $2.29 billion worldwide from four theatrical films, set out film by film in the table that follows. The animated trilogy belongs to DreamWorks Animation, and the live action remake joined it in 2025. All figures are in US dollars and rounded here.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010), directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, opened the series with $494.3 million worldwide on a $165 million budget. Dean DeBlois then directed the other three, from How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) to How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) and the live action How to Train Your Dragon (2025) remake. The figures used follow The Numbers for How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Box Office Mojo for the other three films, and the two trackers differ slightly on the 2010 film.

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) earned the most, with $636.9 million worldwide and $263.0 million domestic. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) leads internationally with $444.5 million and is second worldwide at $621.5 million.

Two other titles carry the name but have no theatrical grosses. Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury, a short, reached US home video in 2011, and How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming aired on NBC in 2019 as a television special. Neither is counted in the totals.

The next release has no gross yet. Universal dated the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) for June 11, 2027, as reported by Screen Daily, and the film is listed as in production. Its status is tracked on the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) page.

The How to Train Your Dragon films are a clear hit, because every film grossed about three times its production budget or more worldwide. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) sits closest to that line at roughly three times its $165 million budget, while the other three films all passed four times theirs. That is a steady record for a franchise that has now run across four releases and a change from animation to live action.

No studio has published a profit figure for the How to Train Your Dragon films, so the useful measure is gross minus budget: about $329 million for How to Train Your Dragon (2010), $477 million for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), $411 million for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) and $487 million for How to Train Your Dragon (2025). Treat those gaps as a measure of scale, not profit, since they ignore marketing costs and the share of ticket sales that theaters keep.

The live action against animated comparison is the interesting part. The live action How to Train Your Dragon (2025) cost $150 million against $145 million for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and it earned $636.9 million worldwide against $621.5 million. The split is what stands out: the remake took far more at home ($263.0 million against $177.0 million), while the 2014 sequel was stronger abroad ($444.5 million against $373.9 million). It could be argued that the remake won its audience in North America, and the animated sequel won the rest of the world.

Box office coverage of the remake's release often sets it beside Lilo & Stitch, Elio and 28 Years Later. None of those films belongs to this franchise, so the fairer test of a hit is each How to Train Your Dragon film's gross against its own budget.

The quietest result belongs to How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). It had the smallest budget at $129 million and the smallest domestic gross at $160.8 million, yet it reached $539.8 million worldwide and finished ahead of How to Train Your Dragon (2010). No film in the series was a flop, and each one at least tripled its budget. The one film still to be measured is the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027), and its numbers will show whether the remake model holds for a sequel.