How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World revolves around Hiccup trying to find a new location that would keep the people of Berk and their dragons safe. At its core, the story of Viking teen Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) befriending a rare dragon called Toothless and learning to get along with dragons in a culture that feared and hunted them was a tender allegory on young adults paving their own way in life while standing up to tradition they deem to be wrongheaded.
The first movie was a pleasant surprise-it not only avoided Dreamworks’ then-prevalent animated family fare formula of tongue-in-cheek humor and pop-culture references, but built on its source material in a way that created a distinct fantasy world that any fan of the genre, child or adult, could enjoy. While every studio is tripping over themselves to kick-start the next blockbuster franchise before the first film is even cast, the How to Train Your Dragon crew has been building an engaging family fantasy/adventure trilogy (loosely based on the novels of Cressida Cowell) over the last ten years. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Here are the highest-grossing movies of 2019 so far:ġ0. We’ll update this list throughout the year. That leaves off films like The Wandering Earth and Alita: Battle Angel, which performed better worldwide. In July it surpassed Avatar’s worldwide gross of $2.787 billion to become the highest-grossing movie worldwide of all time and is second only to Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the U.S.īelow we’ve listed the 10 highest-grossing movies at the U.S.
Disney is just printing money with each new installment, none more so than Avengers: End Game, which has broken just about every box office record: highest opening weekend gross worldwide ($1.2 billion), widest domestic release (4,662 theaters), highest market share in a weekend (89.7%). It looks like there will now be a Marvel movie playing in theaters from now until the real world needs a superhero to save us from the end of days. With a budget of just $20 million, the horror film grossed more than a quarter billion dollars worldwide, earning a place among Disney live-action remakes and superhero films.īut then there’s Marvel. So that makes it all the more impressive what Jordan Peele and Universal Pictures has accomplished with Us.
It’s no surprise that nine out of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2019 so far are based on existing properties, whether sequels, extensions of a franchise or adaptations of a game or comic book.