The Devil Wears Prada 2 has done something the original never did in its entire theatrical run: surpass $326.5 million worldwide — and it took just ten days. Disney’s 20th Century Studios sequel is now rewriting franchise history while giving Meryl Streep the biggest opening weekend of her career.
The film opened to $77 million from 4,150 North American theaters and $156.6 million internationally, producing a $233.6 million global debut — the second-best worldwide start of the year, behind only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($372.5 million). Through its first week, the film had already pulled in $324 million globally, with its domestic ten-day total expected to reach $143.8 million, putting the combined franchise gross well past $700 million.
That opening weekend marked the highest ever for both Streep and co-star Emily Blunt — globally and internationally — surpassing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Oppenheimer, respectively. The sequel also earned an A- CinemaScore and an 87% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, metrics that signal strong staying power in the weeks ahead.
The film picks up 20 years later, with Miranda Priestly fighting to restore Runway magazine’s credibility as print advertising dries up, while her former assistant Emily Charlton — now a powerful executive at Dior — becomes her chief adversary. A tech billionaire played by Justin Theroux adds a third threat. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the original, said the sequel had to stand on its own terms. “It had to be something, a story that we found meaty and something we could really talk about how the world has changed,” she said.
Disney mounted one of its largest marketing pushes in recent memory, deploying the “Giant Red Heel Tour” — placing oversized red heels at landmarks across the country — alongside promotional partnerships with Dior, Diet Coke, Google, Lancôme, Starbucks, Tiffany & Co. and more than a dozen other brands.
The film posted the highest opening day of 2026 in Brazil, Italy, Korea, and Australia, among more than a dozen other markets, and opened at number one in virtually every territory it entered. Italy led offshore grosses with $22.2 million. The sequel now heads into its second weekend in a direct battle with Mortal Kombat II for the domestic top spot.
