Twenty years after the unique, the sequel to The Satan Wears Prada made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Pushed largely by girls, The Satan Wears Prada 2 earned $77 million within the U.S. and Canada, and $156.6 million internationally, in line with studio estimates Sunday (Could 3). It simply topped the field workplace and bumped Michael to second place, although the musical biopic held nicely in its second weekend, falling solely 44%.
The Walt Disney Co.’s twentieth Century Studios opened The Satan Wears Prada 2 in 4,150 places in North America. Ladies made up about 76% of the ticket patrons, in line with PostTrak exit polls; 74% mentioned they might “undoubtedly suggest” the film to mates. Critics have been a bit combined on the sequel, which finds Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs working as soon as extra for Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly on the fictional Runway journal in a much-depleted media panorama.
The film price a reported $100 million to provide — a major enhance from the primary film’s $35 million manufacturing price range. However as filmmaker David Frankel advised The Related Press not too long ago, “Because it seems, , by the point you end paying all the most important film stars on the earth, you continue to find yourself with mainly the identical price range for making the film as we did the primary one.”
Stars Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci have been on a fashion-forward international publicity blitz for weeks, with glamorous stops in Tokyo, London and New York. Even Anna Wintour, the inspiration for the Prada-clad satan, has been concerned this time, showing with Hathaway on the Oscars stage and with Streep on the duvet of Vogue.
The primary film opened in June 2006 and would go on to earn over $326 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation. And maybe extra importantly, it firmly grew to become a part of the tradition thanks partially to its ever-quotable likes (“gird your loins,” “groundbreaking,” “that’s all”). Legacy sequels are by no means a certain factor, however this time anticipation was excessive: In keeping with Nielsen, streaming viewership for The Satan Wears Prada was up 428% from March 2026 to April 2026.
Second place went to Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which made $54 million in its second weekend in North America, the place it’s enjoying on 3,955 screens. Its working worldwide complete is already $423.9 million. Common Footage is dealing with the worldwide launch.
“That is on the good finish of what we had speculated would possibly occur, however we have been very assured that we have been going to have an incredible maintain even with the idea that Prada would do plenty of enterprise,” mentioned Lionsgate Movement Image Group chairman Adam Fogelson. “The traditional knowledge {that a} new big film can knock out a film that has planted itself is continually confirmed inaccurate.”
This weekend marks the beginning of Hollywood’s summer time film season, an important 18-week hall that runs by Labor Day and infrequently accounts for round 40% of the annual field workplace. There are sometimes Marvel blockbusters programmed because the season’s kickoff, however the mixed energy of The Satan Wears Prada 2 and Michael wasn’t a shabby substitute.
“This can be a actually strong weekend,” mentioned Paul Dergarabedian, the top of market developments for Comscore. “It’s this irresistible mixture that greater than makes up for the truth that there’s not a Marvel film to kick off the summer time film season.”
Prada alone truly did higher enterprise than final yr’s summer time kickoff Marvel film, Thunderbolts. There have been a number of different new movies in theaters this weekend as nicely, together with the Adam Scott-led horror film Hokum, Andy Serkis’s animated adaptation of Animal Farm and the Aaron Eckhart- and Ben Kingsley-led survival film Deep Water.
All of them opened behind The Tremendous Mario Galaxy Film, which made $12.1 million in its fifth weekend, and Venture Hail Mary, which made $8.6 million in its seventh weekend. Neon’s Hokum led the newcomers with $6.4 million, rounding out the highest 5, adopted by the very poorly reviewed Animal Farm with $3.4 million. Deep Water opened to $2.2 million.
Within the high 4 films, Dergarabedian has observed a development: “Over the previous couple of months, moviegoers have actually embraced pure, escapist leisure,” he mentioned.
The annual field workplace is at the moment working about 14% up from final yr, with about $2.8 billion in home ticket gross sales thus far.
