The Devil Wears Prada 2 strutted into theaters this weekend and landed squarely at the top of the domestic box office, opening to $32.5 million on Friday — including $10 million in Thursday previews — from 4,150 North American locations, with a full weekend total tracking toward $75 million to $80 million and some projections reaching as high as $90 million.
The audience driving those numbers skews heavily female, particularly women over 40 who saw the original in theaters in 2006, and the film earned an A- CinemaScore alongside a 77% critics score and an 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. That combination of strong legs-indicators suggests the film will hold well past its opening frame.
The sequel reunites the complete original ensemble — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — alongside returning director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, with Hathaway’s Andy Sachs now working as a features editor at Runway, crossing paths again with Streep’s Miranda Priestly and a newly powerful Emily Charlton, played by Blunt, who has risen to a senior executive position at Dior.
Disney’s 20th Century Studios produced the sequel for roughly $100 million before marketing costs — an investment that already looks well-placed, given that the original opened to just $27.5 million in 2006 and earned $125 million domestically across its entire run. The sequel is on pace to surpass that lifetime total within two weekends.
Globally, the film accumulated $115 million through Friday across 51 international markets, with the UK posting its second-highest opening day of 2026 and Australia recording its highest opening day of the year.
The weekend’s second storyline belongs to Lionsgate’s Michael. The Michael Jackson biopic, which opened to a record-shattering $97.2 million last weekend, passed $300 million worldwide on Friday and is now the second-highest-grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing Elvis and closing in on Bohemian Rhapsody’s record of $906 million. Its second weekend should reach $51 million domestically — a 48% decline — bringing its North American total to roughly $180 million.
The combined performance of both films marks a summer kickoff well above the equivalent weekend last year, which was led by Thunderbolts* with $74.3 million.
