Summer box office season kicks off

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00:00The box office numbers are in, and no surprise, moviegoers chose family-friendly movies for Father's Day weekend.

00:08How to Train Your Dragon from Universal Pictures notched the top spot, raking in nearly $84 million at the box office,

00:15better than estimates of about $70 million.

00:17That was the franchise's best domestic opening weekend.

00:21Meanwhile, Disney's live-action remake of Lilo and Stitch was dethroned to number two

00:26after holding the number one spot for the previous three consecutive weekends.

00:30That brought in another $15.5 million domestically, for a grand total of over $858 million globally since it's released.

00:40Domestically, it's the second-highest-grossing film of 2025.

00:44Both movies were well-received.

00:45How to Train Your Dragon has an audience score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes,

00:50whereas Lilo and Stitch has an audience rating of 93%.

00:53That'll do it for your daily briefing from the New York Stock Exchange.

00:57I'm Caroline Woods with The Street.