Tag: How to Train Your Dragon
Oscars Toward Bottom Line’s Winner
Oscars didn’t exactly precipitated on Paramount this year, but the company’s bottom line shine a double gold – one that reducing losses and also raising the prospect of significant increases.
The attention has been concentrated on Paramount six years ago when the studio had weak profits and a thin schedule. Executive Brad Grey was being beaten by bloggers that must soon fade away. Last year, however, box office reached to $416 million based on a blend of low-budget movies like Paranormal Activity 2 and big-bucks deals like How to Train Your Dragon and Iron Man 2.And when rivals were faced failing to recoup its budgets like How Do You Know and Gulliver’s Travels, Paramount released a $38 million sleeper hit, True Grit, and a $25 million, The Fighter, and even obtains unexpected success with Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never.
Tim Johnson on How to Train Your Dragon Sequel
Ok guys, we have something quite interesting to share with you, so pay good attention! Executive producer Tim Johnson has finally revealed some new details on How to Train Your Dragon sequel that is now in pre-production.
Check out the rest of this report to find out what’s so special about this project and one of last year’s biggest surprises…
So, let’s start with the announcement that Dean DeBlois is returning to direct and that the sequel will be much larger in scope than the original. Johnson explained:
“I can tell you that Dean DeBlois, one of the two directors on the first film, has agreed to direct the sequel. They are all already very scared about the prospects.
He presented the draft a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re trying to figure out how we are going to realize the scope of it. It is good to analyze the history, locations, new characters in the movie that he wants, and understand how we can achieve that. We hope to have it completed in the fall of 2013. So a little less than three years.
How to Train Your Dragon Review
Based on Cressida Cowell’s best selling book for kids, How To Train Your Dragon may be taking a page from the E.T. formula, but with its mix of Viking mythology, action, comedy and heart it feels like no other CG 3D animation effort, at least in recent times. Story revolves around Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), an awkward, teenaged Viking who has a hard time finding his place in the family business, as it were. The macho dragon slayers that include his father and Viking leader, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), are not exactly a crowd he fits in with easily, although to keep dad happy he tries. Typically P.C, the ‘toon also offers up Astrid (America Ferrera), the de rigueur young female counterpart who is strong and aggressive in every way Hiccup isn’t. His training exercises with other budding teen dragon slayers start to give him a sense of self-worth but his whole world is turned around when he befriends an injured dragon and then must hide the fact from everyone, including his feared father. As the relationship with the endearing creature grows so does the peril that has engulfed Hiccup and his new friend…read more [BoxOffice]
How to Train Your Dragon, the latest digital morality tale from DreamWorks Animation, is a middling adventure both creatively and visually that doesn’t quite take flight.
With an unnecessarily diverse swarm of dragons zipping around and hordes of Viking warriors attacking them with primitive weaponry, there’s plenty going on in its breezy 98 minutes, just none of it particularly engaging. It might occupy young children and it won’t bore the adults, but as far as kid flicks go it’s simply average…read more [News in Film]
Is Your Child Ready for How to Train Your Dragon 3D Movie?
If you are planning on taking your kids to see Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon, you need to know how to determine if they can see 3D and then prepare them for what will happen during a 3D movie if they have never seen one before.
“While How to Train Your Dragon promises to make James Cameron jealous with certain 3D effects, many children may miss out on all the excitement if they can’t see 3D,” says Dr. Brad Habermehl, President of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.
How to Train Your Dragon Trailer #3
Check out a new, the third movie trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, a viking adventure with the same visual style as Shrek and Kung Fu Panda.
How to Train Your Dragon is co-directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Jay Baruchel is the voice of the main character (Hiccup) and he’s joined by Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson and Kristen Wiig.
How to Train Your Dragon Poster and Featurette
Dreamworks Animation has released a new poster and featurette for How to Train Your Dragon, a viking adventure with the same visual style as Shrek and Kung Fu Panda. Featurette showing lessons that can be learned while training the different species of dragons from the film.
The film is set in a mythical world of vikings and dragons. The story centers around a viking teenager named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. The teen’s smarts and offbeat sense of humor is disliked by his tribe and its chief, Hiccup’s father. However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter. But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is flipped upside down.
How to Train Your Dragon Trailer #2
The second trailer for animated adventure How to Train Your Dragon is now online.
The animated feature takes place in a mythical world where Vikings and dragons have been at odds with one another for thousands of years, and killing dragons is an everyday occurrence for Vikings. It centers on a young Viking boy named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) who one day befriends an injured dragon instead of killing it as he’s supposed to, much to the embarrassment of his father (voiced by Gerard Butler).
How to Train Your Dragon Trailer Arrives!
Yahoo! Movies has just released a new trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, a viking adventure with the same visual style as Shrek and Kung Fu Panda.
A Viking teenager named Hiccup lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. The teen’s smarts and offbeat sense of humor don’t sit too well with his tribe or its chief… who just happens to be Hiccup’s father. However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other Viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter. But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is flipped upside down, and what started out as Hiccup’s one shot to prove himself turns into an opportunity to set a new course for the future of the entire tribe.
How to Train Your Dragon Teaser Posters
The new teaser posters for “How to Train Your Dragon,” the upcoming Dreamworks animated comedy, are online.
The film is set in a mythical world of vikings and dragons. The story centers around a viking teenager named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. The teen’s smarts and offbeat sense of humor is disliked by his tribe and its chief, Hiccup’s father. However, when Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other viking teens, he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter. But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is flipped upside down.
