Universal Pictures’ new How to Train Your Dragon is a good live-action remake. It looks great, its strengths far outweigh its issues, and it hits all the right emotional beats. It’s a good movie.

Global on the latter Dean DeBlois-directed How to Train Your Dragon is at $197.6M after $113M overseas this frame. A24’s Celine Song-directed romcom Materialists is about $700,000 short of its ...

Arguably the most famous scene from the How to Train Your Dragon franchise is the boop. You know the boop. It's the moment when Viking teen Hiccup and adorable Night Fury Toothless make a genuine ...

When Dreamworks released the animated feature “How to Train Your Dragon” in 2010, it seemed almost inevitable that a live-action feature would come along. Cinematographer Roger Deakins gave ...

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Swapping 3D computer animation for live-action is more of a mixed bag. How to Train Your Dragon sequels may have revitalized animated filmmaking thanks to DreamWorks’ cutting-edge software, but ...

Released by DreamWorks Animation in 2010, “How to Train Your Dragon” now gets the live-action remake treatment that has been central to Disney’s movie slate for the past 15 years.

Hiccup (Mason Thames) makes an unlikely new friend in “How to Train Your Dragon.” AP. And it’s tear-jerking as ever watching the very well-cast 17-year-old newcomer Mason Thames as geeky ...

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon can feel hemmed in by its faithfulness to the animated original, but it’s re-creating that film’s sense of heart and soul as well as its entire plot ...

When Dreamworks released the animated feature “How to Train Your Dragon” in 2010, it seemed almost inevitable that a live-action feature would come along. Cinematographer Roger Deakins gave ...