{"id":104296,"date":"2025-08-29T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104296\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:47:07","slug":"devil-wears-prada-2-leaked-videos-puts-spotlight-on-paparazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104296\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Wears Prada 2 Leaked Videos Puts Spotlight on Paparazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Devil Wears Prada<\/a> 2 doesn\u2019t arrive in theaters until May 1, 2026, but plenty of moments between stars Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep are already online, thanks to paparazzi and fan videos shot on the streets of New York. <\/p>\n

\n\tOnlookers have captured scenes of Hathaway\u2019s Andy Sachs running down New York sidewalks and Streep\u2019s Miranda Priestly ascending the Met steps from a distance. Others have gotten so close that actual dialogue from the movie can be heard. <\/p>\n

\n\tNo, it\u2019s not a Marvel or Star Wars movie where spoilers really matter. But for the filmmakers behind Prada, dealing with paparazzi and fans can clearly be an unwelcome distraction. (In videos posted to social media<\/a> on Aug. 20, Hathaway and star Stanley Tucci can be seen asking paparazzi to \u201crelax\u201d and step back while filming a scene in Central Park.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt can be costly to the production in some circumstances, because you have to beef up security, especially when you have huge talent,\u201d says Oscar-nominated producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff, a veteran of New York shoots such as Todd Phillips\u2019 Joker (2019), Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Irishman (2019), and Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s upcoming The Bride. The sequel Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux (2024) was a particular challenge for Koskoff, who recalls a \u201cfrenzy\u201d after adding paparazzi magnet Lady Gaga to the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrada is the latest in a string of films and TV shows where crowds have gathered to capture filming as it happens. Two years ago, there was Blake Lively\u2019s It Ends With Us in New Jersey, then there was the latest season of \u2026And Just Like That in New York, and currently, there\u2019s Tom Holland\u2019s Spider-Man: Brand New Day in the U.K. (though in a savvy move, the latter invited fans to the first day of filming, and then made a marketing video around it<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite complaints from productions, some paparazzi see their work as being additive to the marketing of a film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMany filmmakers welcome me, because they realize good publicity early in is helpful,\u201d says Steve Sands, one of New York\u2019s more well-known paparazzo.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven if that\u2019s the case some of the time, savvy filmmakers choose to get ahead of leaked photos, sharing their own, high-quality images from set so that they can control the first look of their film. Joker filmmaker Phillips did that in 2018 and 2022, posting photos of his lead stars in costume on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to sources THR spoke with, Manhattan is among the hardest places in the world to shoot, at least in terms of avoiding unwanted attention. The recent Denzel Washington-Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest, for instance, didn\u2019t have much trouble when it filmed in Brooklyn, while even in the heyday of filming in Los Angeles, you didn\u2019t see extensive paparazzi shots from set.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis could partly be due to New York being a walkable city while L.A. is car-centric, or because much filming in L.A. was done on studio lots. But it could also be due to New York\u2019s lack of anti-paparazzi laws. (California has enacted legislation targeting unwanted intrusion, harassment and trespassing by paparazzi, though the First Amendment clearly protects filming on public streets.)<\/p>\n

\n\tKoskoff wants New York to pass similar legislation to help guard against aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey need to put something into place that protects the filmmakers and the hundreds of millions of dollars that we bring into that city to shoot,\u201d she says. \u201cThey should be helping us protect the product that we\u2019re spending a fortune in that city to produce and create.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut anti-paparazzi legislation in New York isn\u2019t in the works at this moment. The New York City Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment shares in a statement with THR that it\u2019s \u201ccommitted to balancing the needs of the creative professionals who film in our city with the rights of the press as protected by the First Amendment. From when our office first receives a request to film, until the crew has moved on to their next location, our office continuously monitors productions to ensure safety and efficiency, serving the best interest of all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for all those leaked photos swirling around online before a film hits the big screen, Koskoff isn\u2019t too worried about its impact on reception for the final cut.<\/p>\n

\n\tSays the producer: \u201cThe finished film will always speak for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devil Wears Prada 2 doesn\u2019t arrive in theaters until May 1, 2026, but plenty of moments between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,1942,22806],"class_list":{"0":"post-104296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-the-devil-wears-prada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}