“How to Train Your Dragon 2” took off with a $25.9 million opening in China this weekend. That’s an eye-popping eight times more than the original film debuted with there.
In all, the DreamWorks Animation family film brought in $37.7 million from 28 foreign markets to up its international total to $366 million. Distributor Fox said Sunday that “Dragon 2” will pass “Rio 2” as the year’s biggest animated title at international box office later this week.
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The film, which was written and directed by Dean DeBlois and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler, has made $171 million in the United States — down from the $217 million that the original grossed in the U.S.