Universal Pictures’ highly-anticipated first release from DreamWorks Animation,
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, began its international roll out in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday to take advantage of the peak summer holiday season, and early results are outstanding.
The film’s debut in Australia, which brought in an estimated 1.5 million from 286 locations, ranks as DreamWorks Animation’s biggest opening day of all time, surpassing
Shrek 2, as well as the third-biggest animation opening day of all time, the second-biggest January opening day ever, the biggest opening in the
Dragons franchise -- more than four times the opening day of
How to Train Your Dragon 2 -- and Universal Pictures’ sixth-biggest opening day of all time.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is ranked number one in the market, ahead of the second Thursday of
Aquaman and more than double the opening Thursday of
Mary Poppins.
Bringing in an estimated $173,000 from 90 locations, the film’s opening in New Zealand ranks as DreamWorks Animation’s second-biggest opening day of all time behind
Shrek 2, the third-biggest animation opening day of all time, the second-biggest January opening day, the biggest opening in the Dragons franchise -- more than three times the opening day of How to
Train Your Dragon 2-- and Universal Pictures’ ninth-biggest opening day of all time