Devil Wears Prada 2 Box Office Opening 2026 Smashes Records

Devil Wears Prada 2 Box Office Opening 2026 Earns Massive Numbers as Miranda Priestly Returns

New York and Los Angeles | May 1, 2026 | Living Arcade

The Devil Wears Prada 2 box office opening 2026 has arrived and the fashion world is going to need a bigger budget. The long-awaited sequel from 20th Century Studios earned $10 million in Thursday preview screenings alone, projecting an opening weekend between $75 million and $85 million domestically, with some forecasts suggesting it could reach $90 million to $100 million. Twenty years after the original became one of the most quoted films of its generation, Miranda Priestly walks back into theaters and commands the room all over again.

What the Devil Wears Prada 2 Box Office Opening 2026 Numbers Look Like

Preview screenings for Devil Wears Prada 2 began at 2pm on Thursday, April 29, at 4,150 theaters across the United States, including 1,000 Premium Large Format screens, more than 200 D-Box motion screens, and 100 ScreenX screens.

US and Canada presales reached $20 million before opening day, putting Devil Wears Prada 2 ahead of both Project Hail Mary and Dune: Part Two in advance ticket sales. Those numbers reflect something Hollywood studios rarely see anymore: genuine excitement from a broad audience, not just comic book fans or franchise loyalists.

Globally, the film is targeting a $175 million to $190 million worldwide debut. International projections add another $100 million on top of the domestic opening, driven by markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Devil Wears Prada 2 posted the highest opening day of 2026 in Brazil, Italy, South Korea, and Australia, as well as Belgium, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Greece, Ukraine, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Fashion travels well.

The Cast That Brought Everyone Back

The Devil Wears Prada 2 box office opening 2026 belongs first and foremost to its cast. Every major name from the original returned.

Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway returns as Andy Sachs, Emily Blunt returns as Emily Charlton, and Stanley Tucci returns as Nigel Kipling. Original director David Frankel also returned to helm the sequel, alongside screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the first film.

The sequel picks up with Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returning to Runway magazine as a features editor, two decades after she worked as the assistant to Streep’s powerful editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, the inspiration behind Streep’s character, has this time embraced her association with the film, even posing on the cover of Vogue alongside Streep with the tagline “When Miranda met Anna.”

Emily Blunt’s Emily Charlton now works as a senior executive at Dior. The three women cross paths again inside a fashion industry that has changed dramatically in twenty years, and the film uses that changed landscape to say something about power, aging, and reinvention.

What Critics Say About Devil Wears Prada 2

Devil Wears Prada 2 holds a 78 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from aggregated critic reviews and earned a generally favorable rating on Metacritic.

Variety critic Guy Lodge wrote that the film’s chief pleasures come from practiced professionals doing their jobs well. “None of the stars here is slacking, and their combined, easily resumed chemistry ensures that this sequel, for good long stretches, feels like old times,” Lodge wrote, though he noted some fans may not cherish repeat viewings to the same extent as the original.

The US Rotten Tomatoes audience score stands at 88 percent, well above the original film’s 76 percent audience score. Audiences, it turns out, are more forgiving than critics when it comes to spending time with characters they love.

How Devil Wears Prada 2 Connects to Diaspora and Global Audiences

The original Devil Wears Prada became a global phenomenon. It resonated with working women in every country who recognized the power dynamics of professional life. Bangladeshi-American audiences know that story well.

Fashion is also one of Bangladesh’s biggest connections to the United States. The garment industry employs four million Bangladeshis and supplies clothing to the US brands and retailers whose products fill American stores and online carts. The world of fashion that Miranda Priestly commands exists, in part, because of factories in Dhaka and Chittagong.

That connection gives this film extra meaning for the Living Arcade community. When American audiences fill theaters this weekend to watch Meryl Streep command a fashion magazine, they are watching an industry whose supply chain runs directly through Bangladesh. The clothes on screen were likely made by Bangladeshi hands.

The Summer Box Office Is Now Officially Open

The Devil Wears Prada 2 box office opening 2026 follows one week after Lionsgate’s Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson, opened to $97.2 million and shattered expectations.

Michael was originally projected to earn $70 million in its opening weekend and ended up wildly exceeding expectations with $97.2 million.

The 2026 box office is now running 14 percent ahead of the same period a year ago, with $2.57 billion earned between January 1 and April 26. Two blockbusters in two consecutive weekends have given Hollywood and theater chains something they badly needed: momentum.

Devil Wears Prada 2 will also benefit from playing into Mother’s Day weekend in its second week at the box office, providing a natural audience boost before bigger summer competition arrives.

The Original Film That Started Everything

Understanding the Devil Wears Prada 2 box office opening 2026 requires knowing what the original film meant to audiences.

The original Devil Wears Prada opened in 2006 with a $27.5 million domestic debut and ran to $124.7 million in the US and $326.5 million globally. The film earned two Oscar nominations: Best Actress for Meryl Streep and Best Costume Design for Patricia Field.

Its dialogue became quotable shorthand for an entire generation. “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” “That is all.” Lines from a movie about fashion became a language for talking about power, ambition, and what women sacrifice to succeed.

Disney spent roughly $100 million producing Devil Wears Prada 2, compared to the original’s $40 million budget. With presales and global performance already this strong, the studio’s investment looks to have been well placed.

What Comes Next at the Box Office

Devil Wears Prada 2 now dominates theaters heading into the first weekend of May 2026. The next major competition arrives later in the month.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Pedro Pascal, opens May 22 and represents the next major blockbuster event of the summer season.

Until then, Miranda Priestly has the runway to herself. And if the numbers hold, she intends to use every inch of it.

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