How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

How to Train Your Dragon is an upcoming American action fantasy film written, directed and co-produced by Dean DeBlois. It is a live-action adaptation and shot-for-shot remake of DreamWorks Animation's 2010 animated film, which itself is loosely based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. The film stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, and Ruth Codd, with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast from the animated films. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live action film production and the first live-action remake of any of their films.

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How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

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Madagascar (Live Action)

Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape with the help of some prodigious penguins to explore the world.

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