CinemaCon 2025 is set to host the worldwide debut of How to Train Your Dragon, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the DreamWorks Animation film, written and directed by franchise creator Dean DeBlois.

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie will debut at exhibitor-studio confab CinemaCon on April 2 in Las Vegas.

The live-action “How to Train Your Dragon” movie will have its world premiere at CinemaCon in April, Universal Pictures and the National Association of Theater Owners announced on Thursday. The screening will take place April 2 at Caesar’s Palace.

The "How To Train Your Dragon" live-action remake has a brand-new trailer. The film re-tells the story of the animated 2010 hit about a Viking befriending a dragon.

Universal is getting in on the live-action… action for the first time with the upcoming How To Train Your Dragon movie. However, in the case of this live-action version, one of the major filmmakers behind the animated movie has returned to tell the story himself in a new way.

"It kind of put my own convictions to the test and I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because I've always felt like live-action remakes are often disappointing replacements of the animated movie," DeBlois, who co-directed the original animated film, told CinemaBlend.

At the beginning of How to Train Your Dragon, the people of Berk have no qualms about killing the dragons that attack their village because these winged beasts are seen as evil. Once Hiccup meets Toothless,

"How to Train Your Dragon" will screen for the first time at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theater owners.