Twenty years after the original, the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. According to studio estimates Sunday, The Devil Wears Prada 2 earned $77 million in the US and Canada and $156.6 million internationally. The Walt Disney Co.'s 20th Century Studios opened the film, which finds Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs working once more for Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly at the fictional Runway magazine in a depleted media landscape, in 4,150 locations in North America, the AP reports.
Reviews have been largely positive. The sequel cost a reported $100 million to produce—up from the first movie's $35 million. Filmmaker David Frankel told the AP, "By the time you finish paying all the biggest movie stars in the world, you still end up with basically the same budget for making the movie as we did the first one." Stars Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci have been on a fashion-forward global publicity blitz for weeks, with glamorous stops in Tokyo, London, and New York. Anna Wintour, the inspiration for the Prada-clad devil, also has been involved. The first movie opened in June 2006 and would go on to earn over $326 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation.
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:
- The Devil Wears Prada 2, $77 million.
- Michael, $54 million.
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, $12.1 million.
- Project Hail Mary, $8.6 million.
- Hokum, $6.4 million.
- Animal Farm, $3.4 million.
- Lee Cronin's The Mummy, $2.2 million.
- Deep Water, $2.2 million.
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, $1 million.
- The Drama, $908,303.
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