Buckle up! The Devil Wears Prada 2 kicks off the summer movie season in style. The box office results for this movie are as follows:
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Buckle up! The Devil Wears Prada 2 kicks off the summer movie season in style.
The long-awaited sequel starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep grossed a whopping $77 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, according to ComScore estimates released on May 3. This was an impressive start considering the original film opened in 2006 for just $27 million (not adjusted for inflation) and finished with $124.7 million.
This makes “The Devil Wears Prada 2” the fourth highest-grossing opening weekend of 2026, behind “Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” “Michael,” and “Project Hail Mary.” The film was released on a weekend traditionally considered the start of the summer blockbuster season. In 2025, Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” opened there and had a similar size, grossing $74 million.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 grossed $233.6 million worldwide.
Twenty years after the original film, Hathaway reprises her role as journalist Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada 2. After losing his newspaper job, Sacks returns to work for demanding fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep). Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci also reprise their roles in the sequel, which features new cast members such as Justin Theroux and BJ Novak, and cameos from stars such as Lady Gaga. Gaga also sings in the movie as herself.
After years of skepticism as to whether The Devil Wears Prada 2 could live up to the original film, the film not only did so in the eyes of critics, but became the rare sequel that actually received better reviews than the original. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a critical approval rating of 77%, up slightly from 75% for its predecessor, The Devil Wears Prada. CinemaScore’s survey of moviegoers also gave the sequel an average rating of A-, an improvement from the previous film’s B rating.
The strong audience response likely means The Devil Wears Prada 2 will continue to do well in the coming weeks, especially considering there isn’t much competition in theaters over Mother’s Day weekend. The next big release that could make a dent in audiences is the new Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which will be released on Memorial Day.
The movie “Michael” ranks second in the history of music biopics.
Meanwhile, despite being widely panned by critics, Michael continues to do well in theaters.
The controversial Michael Jackson biopic grossed an additional $54 million at the domestic box office in its second weekend of release, which was a surprisingly small 44% drop from its opening weekend. The film has already set the record for the highest-grossing debut ever for a music biopic, and is now the second-highest grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing “Elvis” and behind “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The 2018 Freddie Mercury movie remains the highest-grossing music biopic with $911 million worldwide. As of this weekend, “Michael” has grossed $423.9 million worldwide.
This performance all but guarantees that the sequel teased at the end of “Michael” will materialize, but the studio has yet to make an official announcement.
After a strong start this weekend, movie theaters are poised to be in high gear heading into the summer, which will be packed with franchises such as “Toy Story,” “Minions,” “Moana,” and “Spider-Man.”
