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How to Train Your Dragon star Gerard Butler and director Dean Deblois talk about adapting their animated classic for live-action.
Watch our interviews with Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler and the rest of the Live-Action "How To Train Your Dragon" cast!
How to Train Your Dragon' flew to the top of the box office charts, earning a stronger-than-expected $83 million in its first weekend of release.
Unless you're a very dedicated How to Train Your Dragon fan, it's fair to say that the post-credit scene isn't the most important watch. Rather than set up the sequel (which we assume would follow the same story as the animated sequel), we see Hiccup open his journal to his sketch of Toothless with the Book of Dragons in the background.
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How to Train Your Dragon has set an audience score record for live-action adaptations of animated films, compared to all the Disney entries.
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On the set of the live-action movie, Toothless and the other dragons existed as large puppets with simple functions, operated by a team of master puppeteers led by Tom Wilton, a performer who had worked on the “War Horse” stage play.
With the box office success of “How to Train Your Dragon” (taking in nearly $197 million worldwide opening weekend), fans are itching to watch the fantasy adventure movie again and again at home. If you can’t make it to the movie theater,
Dean DeBlois on how he landed the live-action gig, Bono’s new EP, and the real-life inspiration behind ‘Materialists.’ Topher Gauk-Roger contributed to this story by Douglas Hyde.