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Cosmopolitan
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
When 'How to Train Your Dragon' Live-Action Will Be Available to Stream and How to Watch
It's time to take this story to new heights as How to Train Your Dragon is released in theaters, this time in a new live-action version that brings the iconic story to life. Surprisingly, it sticks pretty accurately to the original and also helps that they have the best cast to bring these characters to life. Pair it up with the familiar sounds of the original film and you're absolutely going to get emotional. Obviously, you're going to want to experience this for yourself! Here's everything you need to know about watching the How to Train Your Dragon live-action remake. The live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon was released on June 13, 2025, over 15 years after the original movie. Luckily, it's pretty easy to catch How to Train Your Dragon on the big screen! Since it just came out, the film is now available to watch in theaters. Just make sure to grab some tickets beforehand or else you're screening might be sold out! It's a little too early to catch it at home, especially since the remake was just released in theaters. However, you can always catch the lovely animated original at home! The live-action HTTYD will no doubt join Peacock after it leaves theaters. However, you're not subscribed or you have another favorite place to watch, you can still rent or buy it at home via online stores like Prime Video, iTunes, Fandango at Home, YouTube, or Google Play. Or if you're a huge fan, you'll also be able to buy it on Blu-ray and DVD!
Pink Villa
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
India Box Office: How To Train Your Dragon's live action flick impresses with franchise best start of Rs 2.25 crore net on opening Friday
How To Train Your Dragon, directed by Dean DeBlois and starring Mason Thames is a live-action adaptation of the superhit animated movie How To Train Your Dragon (2010). The movie has embarked on a thunderous start domestically, with weekend projections of USD 85-90 million. In India, the live-action flick has taken a solid start of Rs 2.25 crore net (Rs 2.5-2.75 crore gross) on opening Friday, playing alongside Ballerina, Materialists and holdover Indian releases like Housefull 5 and Thug Life. The Day Wise India Net Collections Of How To Train Your Dragon Are As Under: Day India Net Collections 1 Rs 2.25cr Total Rs 2.25cr on day 1 How To Train Your Dragon is infact the biggest opener among imports this week and going by the unanimously positive reception, it should do very well in its eventual run, despite the stacked summer releases. Going by the advance bookings, HTTYD is set for exponential growth. A weekend of over Rs 10 crore net is a foregone conclusion, setting the movie up well for a lifetime of over Rs 20 crore. The How To Train Your Dragon franchise is still a growing movie entity in India and the promising reception of the first live-action flick should help the upcoming films of the franchise, open even better. To note, this new HTTYD film has taken a franchise best start in India. There certainly is a lot of potential that is not tapped yet. There was a slight worry that the live-action adaptation would not bode well with the fans of the franchise; but that has not happened. The fans are loving it and that's all that matters at the end of the day. A bunch of social handles, and also critics, have been very vocal about not wanting live-action adaptations. But the theatre going audiences clearly feel otherwise. Just a month back, Lilo And Stitch took the box office to cleaners and is gearing up to hit USD 1 billion in the next couple of weeks or so. The audience verdict is clear and it is that they wouldn't mind live-action flicks of relatively newer made IPs. Making live-action films for older IPs can be fatal because viewers clearly want something new. Stay tuned to Pinkvilla for more updates on the box office collections of How To Train Your Dragon.
The Star
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
'How to Train Your Dragon' review: Finally, a remake that really soars
Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, Murray McArthur THIS is Berk. And this is how you remake your hit dragon animated series. When the original How To Train Your Dragon (HTTYD) was released in 2010, it was a breakthrough for Dreamworks Animation, becoming the studio's biggest hit after the Shrek franchise. The combination of fantasy, drama, wonder, compelling characters, and dragons (of course), made it one of the best animated features of the year, and it still holds up brilliantly today. So why does it need a live-action version, you say? Well, sure, it's an almost beat for beat recreation of the animated feature, but what this version does is take an already great movie, and give it an even more epic sense of scale, dialling up the grandeur of its location, adding more excitement to the soaring flight of the dragons, and making the massive final boss fight much more dangerous and action-packed. Ok Hiccup, just stay down here while I save your butt, again. In case you have never seen HTTYD before, it revolves around Hiccup (played by Mason Thames), the enthusiastic but rather weak son of Berk village chief Stoick (Gerard Butler, reprising the role he voiced in the animation). Born into a society where the ability to kill a dragon is everything, Hiccup tries to make up for it with his inventive mind, and one of his gadgets actually manages to snag a Night Fury, one of the most feared dragons of them all. However, instead of killing it, he befriends the dragon, whom he names Toothless, and in the process, changes the entire future of Berk, its way of life, and the way they perceive dragons. After what happened to Olympus, London and Angel... I better make sure this movie doesn't turn into 'Berk Has Fallen' too. In a sheer quirk of fate, the two best live-action remakes of the year were of animated features directed by Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois – Lilo & Stitch, and now HTTYD. The decision to rehire DeBlois for this is an inspired one - he knows the franchise inside out (having also directed the second and third instalments of the animations), and thus, manages to not only remain faithful to the original, but also in some parts, improve upon it. Think Hiccup and Toothless' first flight in the animation was great? The live-action one is even better – as the duo swoop and dive through the landscapes of Iceland, the real-life location adds a profound sense of wonderment and grandeur to the scene. This could have gone so wrong if he had been Tooth-full instead of Tooth-less. The battle scenes are also a lot more explosive and epic than the animation, as live-action gives them a genuine sense of jeopardy that animation can't provide, leaving you on the edge of your seat (even if you've already watched the original countless times before). The casting is also pitch perfect here. Thames really embodies the Hiccup in the original, playing the character with a distinctly nerdy yet determined charm, with Nico Parker the perfect foil opposite him as the tough and ambitious Astrid. Gerard Butler's transition from animation to live-action is so seamless that it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role, while Nick Frost is also memorable as his right-hand man, blacksmith Gobber. I'm out of weapons to throw! Where's my Batman soundtrack vinyl when I need it? Oh, and have we mentioned the dragons yet? If you love those mythical creatures in whatever form they come in, trust me, you'll roar with approval at how they are portrayed here. Unlike another certain animation studio, which has made over 20 live-action remakes already, this is Dreamwork's first one. And hopefully, this will be the kind of quality and high standard that we can expect from them in future remakes as well. If you're a fan of the original, you will definitely love this as well.
Cosmopolitan
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
‘How to Train Your Dragon' Star Nico Parker Is Not Losing Sleep Over Fault-Finders
Nico Parker totally sees the irony in her situation. Her character, Astrid in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, became known and beloved for her courage in the 2010 animated original but also for the way she mocks the film's lead for his nepo baby status. Now Nico, the 20-year-old daughter of Westworld star Thandiwe Newton, and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director Ol Parker, finds this funny. 'It felt like kinda loose role swapping.' We're speaking on the tail end of a Friday, and Nico is late to our interview for an incredibly relatable reason: She lost track of time while stalking people on Instagram. It's how she's chosen to spend her rare day off, along with bingeing true-crime shows and taking 'the longest shower you've ever seen in your life.' She's earned this respite. Lately, she's been traveling worldwide to promote the highly anticipated HTTYD adaptation, which has called her social battery and her ability to rest into question. 'I kind of find myself waking up in the middle of the night as if I have something to do.' But while the whole global promotion thing can still feel a bit surreal, Nico credits her costar, Mason Thames, for grounding her amid the madness. 'He feels beyond essential to have. I cannot imagine doing this process with anyone else.' But I'd credit her own imperturbability and composure, which I was made aware of as she explained to me her thoughts on negative online noise, particularly concerning her casting. (When it was announced, naysayers online took it as an opportunity to focus on the obvious: the animated original and very fictional Astrid was blonde, and Nico is not.) So, after graciously taking a break from her day-off activities, Nico took time to give us a debrief on how she handles toxic fandom, her deep bond with Mason, and what she cherishes the most about Astrid. If you enjoy the project, it is actually kind of a privilege, because you get to spread the word of something that you love and work with people you love. I just adore Mason, and so getting to do it with him is amazing. Going into it, all of my team was like, 'If you need anything, just let us know.' And I was like, 'Guys, it's just press, don't worry about me.' Then, within the Orlando to Brazil [leg], I was like, 'Uh-oh.' It's not that it isn't an absolute privilege, but more so, it's just a lot of talking and a lot of travel. And having to be 'on' all the time. It's like you should go home and rest, but you can't really rest, because your brain is still on. And you're still trying to make sense of things and post nice pictures from that day or whatever. But at the same time, it's actually been wonderful, and as soon as it's over, I'll miss it. I feel like I don't give my social battery enough credit. I think that I am an introverted extrovert because I inherently gain energy from social interaction. But my kind of anxious nature is not to do that in any way. I do have this capability for things like doing press. But the idea of them is more stressful than actually doing them. Yeah. Once I'm there and it starts, I feel like I'm in a groove, and then one interview will end and that's when I'm kind of staring at the floor, feeling void of any human emotion. I remember doing press when I was younger, saying to my mom, 'I love it when they ask me the same question, because it means that I can just say the same thing.' But I was obviously an idiot because, actually, new questions are so lovely. Because there's something actually really difficult about having to reframe the same answer but in a way that sounds different. So I don't know what I was talking about, but I said that to my mom the other day, and she was like, 'Well, you did say when you were younger…' Yeah, there's definitely something in it that felt ironic in a way. I don't necessarily feel a pressure to live up to any expectations or anything. But it's important to be willing to give full credit to your parents in any regard. It's one of my favorite parts! I think that's the press element that I was the most looking forward to because I love wearing clothes and trying on clothes. I think it's really fun self-expression. It's been really fun and a super-collaborative process. I feel very lucky to get to do it. It was super comfy, actually! Not the shoes, but the dress itself was a dream. One day, we'd been doing press all day when we went to the London screening, and I was so tired and jet-lagged and just couldn't be bothered. So my pain threshold, which is normally quite high for shoes, was just on the floor. I did some interviews, and I took my shoes off, and I was like, 'Guys, you promise you can't see my feet any of these?' And they were like, 'No, absolutely don't worry.' And then I saw a full body picture of Mason and I, and the dogs were out. I'm a huge playlist person. It's, like, cliché and annoying. People are always like, 'We get it, you made a playlist.' That is always my go-to. It's funny, because a lot of the time, the songs feel very specific to the character and to the story or they only really make sense to me in terms of how they correlate. But for this one, it so many of the songs from the [original film's] score. To give full credit to John Powell, that score is really iconic. Mason and I were both saying it kind of feels like cheating in a way—you already have this [original] thing that feels incredibly accurate. So that and Destiny's Child, I would say—'Survivor.' The songs that went on there were there because I was like, 'Okay, Astrid's a bad bitch, who are some bad bitches that I know?' So Destiny's Child obviously gonna be on there. Do you think she's someone you'd befriend in real life? Or do you think there'd be a hurdle to that relationship? I think there'd be a hurdle. I think I'd be, like, so unimpressive by comparison. I don't try to be friends with people who don't want to be friends with me, but I think that she'd probably find me uninspiring. What zodiac sign do you think Astrid is? Capricorn or Virgo, 100 percent. My best friend is a Capricorn, and she's ambitious, specifically in a kind of school way. Their version of school is arena training. So I think of how clever my best friend is at essays at her university, to me that's of a similar correspondence to how Astrid is when it comes to axe training. And then Virgo, because she's so particular and type A, but Capricorn is, I think, better also. Capricorn is a rare star sign, and I think she's a pretty rare character. The How to Train Your Dragon superfandom is loud. What's your relationship like with those fans? Do you pay attention to what conversations are happening online? I definitely don't want to get superfandom confused with bigotry. Because people use 'I'm actually a huge fan of this' as a cop-out [excuse for] being prejudiced. Because I don't think those people are superfans. That's the kind of thing I don't embrace, and those aren't opinions that I value. That discourse isn't anything that I could ever take home with me, because it's just not about me. It's about a much, much bigger thing. And that's really sad. It would be easier if it were just specific to me, because at least it's, like, not this huge, swooping thing that affects lots of people and lots of movies and TV shows. But then there are people whose best version of a live-action or a new version of something is to see exactly what they envisioned. And I can understand that viewpoint. It's more something I hope people can look past and enjoy things regardless of that. Hair isn't the thing that makes someone a character. And eye color isn't gonna change your performance. And so that's something I hope people can look beyond. If you can't, you can't, and the animated movies are there for a reason. Mason says this all the time, but this movie is absolutely a love letter to the original. We're not trying to take away from things already there. This movie is made by fans and for fans. I hope the die-hard fans can feel that an abundance of love and care was poured into it. But as for people on the other kind of side of discourse, I feel like it's their dream to think I'm staying up at night reading comments, but I'm sleeping through it peacefully. [laughs] While we're in the press circus, we've be phones off and not too involved. Because you don't wanna be too self-aware when you're doing press. But also, like, Mason's great! I just feel very appreciative for him. That ties into fan edits and stuff, but it also ties into people being angry on the internet. He's an absolute support system, and I feel very lucky I get to have him in my life.
Buzz Feed
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
How To Train Your Dragon Cast Character Quiz
It's time to ride some dragons, baby! To celebrate the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, we had the cast — Gerard Butler, Mason Thames, and Nico Parker — take a quiz to find out which characters from the movie they're most like in real life. Is Mason actually like Hiccup? Which animated movie would Nico give a presentation on as to why it's the very best? Watch the video below to find out: Now, it's your turn! Take our "Which How to Train Your Dragon Character Are You?" quiz below, and compare your results with the cast's! And be sure to watch HTTYD, which is in theaters now! Which How to Train Your Dragon character did YOU get? Share your results in the comments below! Do you love all things TV and movies? Subscribe to the Screen Time newsletter to get your weekly dose of what to watch next and what everyone is flailing over from someone who watches everything!
