LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — Universal’s animated How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World debuted atop the worldwide box office, earning $40.2M from 41 territories ahead of its domestic debut later this month.
The film is the third installment in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise and follows 2014’s How To Train Your Dragon II. The film is the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Universal following Dreamworks acquisition by NBCUniversal in 2016.
Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, the film features voice work by Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington and F. Murray Abraham.
In North America, Universal’s Glass held on to the top for another week, adding $9.5M over the weekend.
The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, February 3, are below.
1. How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Universal – $40.2M
2. Glass – Disney – $21.7M
3. Extreme Job – CJ Entertainment – $20.9M
4. Green Book – Lionsgate – $16.2M
5. Qu’est-ce qu’on a encore fait au Bon – Multiple – $12.8M
6. Escape Room – Sony – $11.7M
7. Upside, The – STX Entertainment – $9.7M
8. Aquaman – Warner Bros. – $9.4M
9. Ralph Breaks The Internet – Disney – $9.2M
10. Bohemian Rhapsody – 20th Century Fox – $8.9M
11. White Snake – Multiple Chinese Distributors – $8.8M
12. Bumblebee – Paramount Pictures – $8.1M
The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, February 3, are below.
1. Glass – Universal – $9.5M
2. Upside, The – STX Entertainment – $8.8M
3. Miss Bala – Sony – $6.7M
4. Aquaman – Warner Bros. – $4.8M
5. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse – Sony – $4.4M
6. Green Book – Universal – $4.3M
7. Kid Who Would Be King, The – 20th Century Fox – $4.2M
8. Dog’s Way Home, A – Sony – $3.5M
9. Escape Room – Sony – $2.9M
10. They Shall Not Grow Old – Warner Bros. – $2.4M
11. Mary Poppins Returns – Disney – $1.9M
12. Bumblebee – Paramount – $1.9M 12.
