With 375 $US million already collected in the world box office, we had to expect that DreamWorks Animation would announce a following animation film to How to Train Your Dragon. The news came yesterday at the time of the revealing of the financial results for the first quarter by the studio from Universal City, California.

They envisage to release a sequel on the cinema screens in 2013. This is what Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of DreamWorks Animation, confirmed.

The studio also collected incomes of 59,7 $US million just with the derived product sales and the user licenses.

How to Train Your Dragon follows a young boy in a mythical universe where he has to triumph over a dragon. The story line is written according to the novel by Cressida Cowell.

In this animation movie, Gerald Butler (Stoick’s voice), Jay Baruchel (Hiccup’s voice), Jonah Hill (Snotlout’s voice), America Ferrera (Astrid’s voice), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs’s voice), T.J. Miller (Tuffnut’voice) and Kristen Wiig (Ruffnut’s voice) can be heard.

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders wrote the scenario together for the feature film.

How to Train Your Dragon was released on the conventional screens and on Imax 3D on March 26th.

The comedy distributed by DreamWorks takes back the head of the North-American box office with receipts of 15 $US million.

The animation film in 3D How to Train Your Dragon made its entry in the box office at the end of March. This feature film had collected 43.3 million dollars $US for its first week on the screens.

The comedy is held in a world where a young Viking must capture and overcome a wild dragon. The story is inspired by the book written by Cressida Cowell and published in 2003. The vocal distribution is in particular made up of Gerald Butler, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and America Ferrera.

In second place, we find Jennifer Lopez in the new movie The Back-up Plan which obtained 12,3 $US million. The story is about an unmarried woman who does not find the ideal man and turns to artificial insemination. The day when she will receive a positive respond to her test pregnancy, she will meet the man of her life.

Crazy night is always in third place with 10,6 $US million.

The Losers takes the fourth place with 9,6 $US million. This film adaptation of a comic book series follows members of the American Special Forces in top secret operations.

Kick-Ass, produced by Brad Pitt, is in 5th place with 9,5 $US million of receipts for its second week in cinema rooms. The film was in first position last week.

The documentary Oceans arrives at the eighth place with 6 $US million. In the title, the directors Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin show images never recorded by underwater technology.

Here is the Weekend Box Office Results for April 23-25, 2010:

1. How to Train Your Dragon (15 million US$)

2. The Back-up Plan (12.3 million $US$)

3. Date Night (10.6 million $US$)

4. The Losers (9.6 million $US$)

5. Kick-Ass (9.5 million $US$)

6. Clash of the Titans (9 million $US$)

7. Death at a Funeral (8 million $US$)

8. Oceans (6 million $US$)

9. The Last Song (3.7 million $US$)

10. Alice in Wonderland (2.2 million $US$)

The scenario is repeated only one week after the almost-dead heat between the two heads of the North-American Box Office. This time, the duel is played between superhero movie Kick-Ass of Lionsgate and the cartoon film of DreamWorks Animation, How to Train Your Dragon.

According to the estimates, Kick-Ass, released this week, should bring back 19.75 million American dollars. A little less than what the producers expected, but it would be however about a good introduction.

Announced first this week, How to Train Your Dragon should generate 20 million dollars. The cartoon film was released four weeks ago.

Again, it will be necessary to be careful in front of the numbers advanced by the production companies. On the last week, the receipts recorded at the end of the weekend proved that the estimates of the producers were not always exact. Indeed, Date Night had finally finished second – and not first – behind Clash of the Titans.

This situation, where films are so close in the Box Office that we cannot be sure estimates, is exceptional. Box Office analysts say that they have seen that twice of two weeks.

New in the rooms and in the top 10, the American remake of the British comedy of the same name, Death at a Funeral, took the fourth place with an income of 17,3 million dollars.

Letters to God and Diary of a Wimpy Kid do not form part of the ten leaders of the classification anymore.

New born from the studio which offered Shrek and Madagascar, How to Train Your Dragon is another nice animation where a boy achieves to get friendly with a dragon. Nothing to prevent from sleeping craftsmen at Pixar and Ghibli, but perfect for all the family.

The Vikings always were in war against the dragons. In order to impress his father, Hiccup (voice of Jay Baruchel) manages to wound one of these dangerous animals. Instead of bringing it back to the village, he ends up taking care of this monster, named Toothless. Through pass time with the beast, they become inseparable, and when the danger thunders, they will seek to be together to fight the adversity, that it is human or not.

Free adaptation of a popular book for children by Cressida Cowell from the duet which had offered Lilo & Stich (Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois), this feature-length film which will like much the young children is carried by its federator topics. There is first of all a potential threat, foreigners who end up really knowing each other, a friendship which will enable them to survive, the capacity places from there which is against this new collaboration, a predator even larger which is likely all to destroy and, finally, the contribution of the former enemies who are held together to make triumph the peace. Replace the large malicious one by terrorism (or Bin Laden, Stalin, etc) and you obtain the reflection bursting of a warlike nation which is ready with all alliances to arrive at its ends… and to domesticate the original problem.

Except that How to Train Your Dragon should not necessarily be analyzed in this way. By leaving the socio-political speech in the cloakroom, it is possible to have fun much in this whimsical universe which do not miss especially of action and of humor. Although the narrative screen resembles sometimes a little too much to Kung Fu Panda, the unit is equipped with an alert rate and cordial characters. When the hero finds himself with his flying friend (with his supported homage to Miyazaki’s obsessions), the account reaches its zenith so much it proves to be nice. Even if the magic is not completely the same one when the human are together, the film does not beat a wing for as much, and the voices selected (which also include those of Gerald Butler, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mint-Plasse) function rather well.

It will still be necessary however to wait to see DreamWorks revolutionizing the world of animation as at the time of Shrek. Their fables are diverting and exciting, but they clearly miss depth and emotion. The developed images and the music used are at the point, except that they never upset the retina and hearing. And one will not have to hope on the elements in three dimensions (immersive without being extraordinary) to change it. These aspects are obviously not obligatory if a scenario concrete is part. When it is not the case, it is well to be attached to it. Sometimes, How to Train Your Dragon would have needed it. Just a little. To break the monotony which can exist in spite of its undeniable qualities.

The 3D animation movie How to Train Your Dragon, produced by DreamWorks Animation, has just made its entry in the North-American box-office.

This feature film, which collects 43.3 million dollars $US for its first week pays itself the luxury to relay in the second place the very popular Alice in Wonderland from Tim Burton.

The number one movie in this week box-office is held in a mythical world where a young Viking must capture and overcome a wild dragon. The story is inspired by the book by Cressida Cowell. The vocal distribution is in particular made up of Jay Baruchel (recently seen in She’s Out of My League), America Ferrera (recently seen in Our Family Wedding and the TV series Ugly Betty), Gerald Butler (recently seen in The Bounty Hunter) and Jonah Hill (recently seen in The Invention of Lying).

The beautiful Alice is thus in second position with 17 $US million and should not be ashamed of its 656 $US million collected throughout the world.

The humor movie Hot Tub Time Machine by Steve Pink is a new film which arrives in third position with 13.7 $US million. The story is that of friends who accomplish a time travel and are going back to 1986.