{"id":420421,"date":"2026-05-01T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/420421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:53:09","slug":"devil-wears-prada-2-box-office-makes-10-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/420421\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Wears Prada 2 Box Office Makes $10 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMovie theaters are girding their loins for the arrival of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe long-awaited sequel from 20th Century Studios has made $10 million at the box office in previews. It\u2019s projected to earn between $75 million and $80 million in its opening weekend, but some estimates put it even higher at $90 million to $100 million due to the popularity of the original and the recent over-performance of Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cMichael.\u201d Internationally, \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d sequel has made $40.5 million in its first two days after opening in 45 markets.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week\u2019s Michael Jackson biopic was originally estimated to open to around $70 million then exceeded expectations with a huge $97.2 million debut. It took the box office crown, and \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d looks to do the same and give theaters back-to-back hits. The sequel\u2019s budget stands at $100 million plus marketing costs, up from the original\u2019s $40 million. It will easily surpass the original movie\u2019s lifetime gross in weeks. The first \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d opened to $27.5 million and ended its run with $125 million domestically and $326 million worldwide. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all reprise their roles 20 years after the original \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d became a pop culture touchstone. Andy Sachs (Hathaway) becomes the features editor at Runway magazine, reuniting her with her old, cruel boss Miranda Priestly (Streep) and fashion director Nigel Kipling (Tucci). They also cross paths with Emily Charlton (Blunt), Priestly\u2019s other former assistant, who is now a senior executive at Dior. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe film\u2019s chief pleasures are those of practiced professionals doing their job, and doing it well,\u201d writes Variety\u2019s film critic Guy Lodge in his review<\/a>. \u201cNone of the stars here is slacking, and their combined, easily resumed chemistry ensures that this sequel, for good long stretches, feels like old times \u2014 even if it\u2019s hard to imagine fans of its predecessor cherishing repeat viewings to quite the same extent. Something that hasn\u2019t changed, moreover, is Streep\u2019s effortless MVP status: Her Miranda may now be too familiar to be menacing, but the hushed, lacerating economy of her line readings, the glassy reserve of her body language, the layers of passive-aggressive meaning she compacts into one arched brow or tight half-smile all invite a kind of in-the-presence-of-greatness awe. \u201cBoy, I love working,\u201d says Miranda quite sincerely, and so, it seems, does Streep. And work, as this alternately breezy and quite pessimistic crowdpleaser is quick to remind us, isn\u2019t to be taken for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movie theaters are girding their loins for the arrival of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d this weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[149177,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-420421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-devil-wears-prada-2","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}