Gerard Butler’s Highest-Grossing Movie Officially Smashes 120-Day Milestone

2026 hasn’t exactly been a benchmark year for Gerard Butler so far, but he has put out two new movies in what has been a mostly underwhelming year. Butler starred in one of the first feature films of 2026, Greenland 2: Migration, but the film bombed in spectacular fashion at the box office. Co-starring Morena Baccarin, the movie came into theaters carrying a $90 million budget, leaving it with a break-even point of nearly $200 million, but it eked out a mere $45 million — it’s estimated to be one of the biggest box office bombs of the year. Butler also took his talents to Netflix for the 700-year-spanning crime thriller, In the Hand of Dante, but despite his star-power paired with Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa, the film failed to shine in its streaming debut earlier this year.

The last few years have been largely hit or miss for Butler, who has starred in some movies that smashed the box office and others that flopped. Butler opened 2025 with another underwhelming box office performance with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, which earned less than its predecessor at the box office despite costing more to make. He then turned things around with the premiere of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie, which grossed over $630 million globally to become the highest-grossing movie of Butler’s career. At the end of its theatrical run, How to Train Your Dragon made its streaming debut on Peacock, but now the film is streaming exclusively on Netflix. It’s also been in the top 10 on VOD for over 120 days now, making it one of the most-watched rentals/purchases of the year.

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.

• This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
  fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
• You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
  everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
• The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
  every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
• You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.

• One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
  each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
• You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
  somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
• The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
  harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
• You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
  it.

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.

• Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
  a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
• You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
  Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
• The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
  rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
• You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
  got told wrong.

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.

• Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
  which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
• You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
  something nobody thought to test for.
• The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
  every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
• Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
  difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.

Here’s When ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Comes Out?

How to Train Your Dragon 2 has already been set for release on June 11, 2027. Not only is Butler confirmed to return and reprise his role as Stoick in the film, but Cate Blanchett will also reprise her role as Valka, with Mason Thames returning as Hiccup and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) starring as Eret. Dean DeBlois is once again writing and directing the film, which is expected to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor as a shot-for-shot remake of the animated film.

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How to Train Your Dragon