A billion {dollars}? Throughout summer season film season? Groundbreaking.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” has grossed $676 million on the international field workplace, propelling the franchise previous the $1 billion mark. That’s mixed with the haul from the unique 2004 movie, which ended its run with $326 million, not adjusted for inflation.
It’s a notable milestone to cross with simply two movies, particularly in post-COVID instances. Disney, which spent roughly $100 million to make and $80 million to market the second “Prada,” will flip a tidy revenue.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” opened in early May to $77 million in North America and $233 million globally over the weekend — almost 3 times above the beginning of the unique. The comedy sequel remained a big-screen draw with $217 million in North America and $458 million abroad to face because the fourth greatest home, third largest worldwide and fourth-highest grossing worldwide launch thus far.
“The Devil Wears Prada” was primarily based on Lauren Weisberg’s 2003 novel, a roman à clef about working as an assistant to Vogue boss Anna Wintour. The second film, which introduced again the unique director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, picks up 20 years later as Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returns to Runway journal as a options editor below Meryl Streep’s omnipotent editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly.
Though “The Devil Wears Prada” has turn into a cultural touchstone over the previous 20 years, reviving a beloved property doesn’t all the time equate to field workplace {dollars}. (Legacy sequels like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Karate Kid: Legends” and “Zoolander 2″ learned that the hard way.) “The Devil Wears Prada 2” succeeded not simply by leaning into nostalgia however by making the story related for at the moment. Plus, the follow-up movie reunited the unique forged of Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.
