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The Devil Wears Prada 2 Lands Smack Dab In The Middle Of Saturday's $75-80M Projections
This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with up-to-date box office projections (in bold). Scroll down for a full chart and further analysis.
The new movie is a direct sequel to the 2006 hit The Devil Wears Prada, an adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger novel of the same name that grossed $326.7 million against a reported budget of roughly $40 million. 2026's The Devil Wears Prada 2, which debuted almost exactly two decades after the original movie, reunites original director David Frankel and original screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna with returning stars Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling, and Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly.
Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is projected to debut at No. 1 at the domestic box office with a 3-day debut gross of $77 million. This nearly triples the opening weekend of the original movie, which debuted with $27.5 million. The sequel's lead shrinks when adjusted for inflation, but it is still set to almost double The Devil Wears Prada's adjusted $44.8 million debut.
While The Devil Wears Prada 2 has taken the clear lead, it has faced stiff competition from the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which debuted on April 24 with the best opening weekend in history for a music biopic. It is expected to close out the weekend with $54 million, dropping just 44%. This drop proves that the movie won't be frontloaded, hinting that it could have true longevity in theaters. However, it has fallen behind Bohemian Rhapsody, which only dropped 38.9% during its own sophomore weekend while en route to becoming the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.
Bolstered by strong Devil Wears Prada 2 reviews, which have earned it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 77% from critics with an even better audience score of 88% on the Popcornmeter, this strong opening weekend sets the sequel on course to become a major hit.
This was not necessarily a guarantee. The new movie has a significantly increased budget (reportedly $100 million), which raises its estimated break-even point considerably. Because movies often need to earn back two and a half times their budgets in theaters, The Devil Wears Prada 2 might need to earn $250 million or more worldwide in order to end up in the black.
However, if the sequel is able to achieve the same level of audience retention as the original movie (which has lower Rotten Tomatoes scores of 75% from critics and 76% from audiences), it could climb to a whopping $890 million or more by the end of its run, establishing itself as a major box office force.
Should that be the case, it is entirely possible that The Devil Wears Prada 2will not be the end of the franchise. Even though it took 20 years for the sequel to come to fruition in the first place, another installment could potentially be rushed into production if it indeed strikes box office gold to that degree. This is entirely possible, though it is unknown how the story might continue. Although Weisberger has penned three Miranda Priestly novels, the new movie's story has no connection to the plot of the second novel, Revenge Wears Prada.
Below, see the full domestic Top 5 chart for the weekend:
#
Title
3-Day Total
Cumulative (Domestic)
1
The Devil Wears Prada 2
$77 million
$77 million (weekend 1)
2
Michael
$54 million
$183.8 million (weekend 2)
3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
$12.1 million
$402.7 million(weekend 5)
4
Project Hail Mary
$8.5 million
$318 million (weekend 7)
5
Hokum
$6.4 million
$6.4 million (weekend 1)
The only other new release to land in the Top 5 this weekend is Damian McCarthy's buzzy new horror movie Hokum, which earned a respectable, but not particularly noteworthy $6.4 million in 1,860 theaters, hitting a decent per-screen average of $3,440.
With two new movies joining the Top 5 (for the first time since The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and The Drama premiered during the first weekend of April), two titles have naturally had to exit. Lee Cronin's The Mummy is falling from No. 4 to No. 7 during its third weekend in theaters, while the longer-lasting The Drama fell from No. 5 to No. 10 in weekend five after losing 1,125 theaters.
The remaining slots in the Top 10 are filled out by new releases that scooped up relatively small sums in the few theaters that weren't playing The Devil Wears Prada 2, namely the animated George Orwell adaptation Animal Farm (No. 6), Renny Harlin's new shark movie Deep Water (No. 8), and the anime feature That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie – Tears of the Azure Sea (No. 9).
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