How To Train Your Dragon, Materialist Get Warm Box Office Entry

 

Lilo & Stitch is yet. a hot take at the box office, even though it has dropped and conceded the spot to another film. The film has conveniently surpassed the $800 million benchmark, and also has an international cume of nearly $500 million.. However, How to Train Your Dragon notched the top spot instead. 

Upon its release over the weekend, How To Train Your Dragon established itself as a box office hit, overtaking Lilo & Stitch after three weekends of dominance. The film, which is a 2010 live-action remake of the same title, lived up to expectations with a domestic gross of $84.5 million on its opening weekend. 

The Universal Pictures film had been a delight for its fans from the previous edition, which grossed over $43 million domestically on its debut. As Screen Rant reported, DreamWorks might have banked on that film to launch a remake, having closed at the box office with a worldwide gross of $495.1 million. 

Lilo & Stitch dropped to the second place with $15.7 million from the domestic market. However, it is nearing the billion-dollar mark with its worldwide gross of $858.6 million. Meanwhile, Ballerina saw a 60% drop in sales and dropped to fifth place with $9.8 million in gross domestic revenue in the second weekend. 

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning still holds its place in the top five. However, this time, in fourth place behind Materialist. It grossed over $10 million in its fourth weekend, increasing its worldwide cume to surpass the $500 million milestone. 

Materialistic, a film that explores the love escapades of a New York matchmaker who finds herself in between two extremes - an ideal candidate and an imperfect suitor. The film. made it to third on the box office chart with $12 million on its debut weekend. However, its international gross was much smaller. With $3.5 million from the international market, ir has a global gross of $15.5 million.