On Thursday SkyShowtime premieres a 2025 movie that has grossed more than $630 million

During its run in theaters around the world, the film has grossed $636,351,148, placing it in seventh position behind the film Night Watch: Infinity Train. In Spain it has been the fourth highest grossing film of the yearonly behind Lilo & Stitch, Jurassic World: Revenant and A Minecraft Movie.

What is it about?

If you saw the original animated film, you already know what is its history and concept. Its live-action adaptation was made by the same director of the original 2010 film, so that guarantees that the experience is respectful and quality.

The story is set in a Viking village where they find themselves in constant confrontation with dragons of the surroundings. In that place, the son of the village chief is not exactly a great warrior. To make up for his shortcomings in battle, the protagonist designs devices that can help him in combat.

With one of them he manages to hit a dragon and, when he finds it, the mutual forgiveness of the other’s life begins a friendship that will mark the development of the saga. From there, thanks to Toothless, a new door opens to the relationship between humans and dragons.

Who is in the movie?

How to Train Your Dragon has a young cast that fits very well with the needs of a film as exciting as this one. The protagonist, Hiccup, is played by Mason Thames, who you may have seen in both installments of The Black Phone. For her part, Astrid is characterized by Nico Parker, who was Sarah in the series The Last of Us.

A curious detail is that Gerard Butler recovers his role from the animated versiongiving life to Stoick, the father of the protagonist. This is one of those rare cases in which the original actor also plays the character in his real version, something that will also happen in Moana with Dwayne Johnson.

Other actors who appear in the film are included in this table:

Is the remake worth it?

Yeah, it is very worth it. The truth is that, taking into account that the original film is from 2010, there were many doubts about whether we really needed a real version. But everything quickly dissipates when we are watching the tape.

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There are moments in which the memory of the animated edition is interspersed with the images of the real version, creating a new image in our memory. It’s part of the charm of a film that knows how to make everything we previously saw only in animation come true.

Therefore, if you have SkyShowtimewe recommend that you watch it and enjoy the holiday on the 25th watching a good movie at home.

Other good SkyShowtime premieres

The month of December is being low in volume, but wide in quality. The SkyShowtime catalog is used to having few movies released, although, at least, we are enjoying a high power of releases.

Recently, two other films have been released that we highly recommend you see:

• Mission: Impossible final sentence
• The Phoenician plot

Both are from this year 2025 and highlights the value that SkyShowtime has to receive cinema films shortly after they have been in theaters.

Will they reach other platforms?

Both How to Train Your Dragon and the latest installment of Mission: Impossible will end up rotating and circulating on other streaming platforms. Possibly, if we base ourselves on what has happened in other cases, where we will first get to see the movies will be on Movistar Plus+.

After that, it is common for these types of large productions to reach Netflix, with whom the platform has agreements that allow it to release its films. But, today, If you want to see How to Train Your Dragon in streaming, your option from December 25 will be SkyShowtime.

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