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How to Train Your Dragon 2(2014)
Released
2014 · FILM

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Young chieftain Hiccup must rally his Viking village and their dragon allies to stop warlord Drago from enslaving all dragons, risking everything to preserve the fragile peace he’s inherited.

“Training is over. The adventure begins.”

Directed by
Dean Deblois
Written by
Dean Deblois, Cressida Cowell
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
102 min
ActionAdventureAnimation

Synopsis

Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless venture beyond their homeland to explore the vast unknown. During one of their journeys, they discover a hidden cave containing hundreds of wild dragons and encounter a mysterious dragon rider with a surprising link to Hiccup. As the ruthless dragon conqueror Drago Bludvist seeks to take control of both dragons and people, Hiccup must embrace his role as a true leader and, with the help of his friends and Toothless, defend Berk from an impending war.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John K CarrShot by Gil ZimmermanScored by John PowellDesigned by Pierre Olivier Vincent

Box Office

2014 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$621.5M

Budget$145.0M
Worldwide gross$621.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $177.0M — 28% of worldwide · International: $444.5M (72%)

Opening weekend: $49.5M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $69.9M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,253 theaters

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Also known as

  • Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht 2de
  • Cómo entrenar a tu dragón 2es
  • Dragons 2fr
  • Dragon Trainer 2it

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