{"id":631921,"date":"2026-05-09T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631921\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:56:09","slug":"mortal-kombat-ii-devil-wears-prada-2-40m-42m-apiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631921\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mortal Kombat II’, ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ $40M-$42M Apiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM UPDATE: The moms and their daughters will decide who reigns supreme at this weekend\u2019s box office with 20th Century Studios\u2019 heavily female-skewing The Devil Wears Prada 2 and the dude-dominant New Line\/Atomic Monster sequel Mortal Kombat II<\/a> vying for No. 1 with around $40M-$42M apiece. <\/p>\n

\n\tFor Devil Wears Prada 2, that\u2019s a 45%-48% decline, which is fantastic and not far from the -46% hold the 2006 original movie had. We already told you that globally, the sequel is surpassing the original film\u2019s $326M-plus<\/a> reported global gross. Ten-day domestic by Sunday for Prada 2 is $143.8M on the high end.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMother\u2019s Day Sunday isn\u2019t expected to be big just for Devil Wears Prada 2 but also The Sheep Detectives<\/a>, Michael and Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard & Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D).<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Line\u2019s $80M Mortal Kombat II is seeing a Friday and previews of $17.5M at 3,503 theaters, with Devil Wears Prada 2 eyeing $10M-$11M at 4,200. Kombat II has all the premium formats.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate\u2019s Michael remains mutliplatinum with a third weekend around $35M at 3,550 theaters after a third Friday of $9M.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFourth place goes to Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Hugh Jackman comedy, The Sheep Detectives, with $3.7M today including previews, and $13.6M over three days at 3,457 theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: New Line\u2019s Mortal Kombat II stepped into the ring Thursday night and rang up $5.2M in previews, which isn\u2019t that far from the amount the studio clocked a year ago in previews from Final Destination Bloodlines ($5.5M). That highly anticipated horror film opened to $51.6M.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd fifth is Paramount and Interscope\u2019s $20M acquisition, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard & Soft at 2,613 theaters with $4.2M Friday\/previews and a 3-day of $7.5M. <\/p>\n

\n\tAll of Mortal Kombat II\u2018s cash is from Thursday. Showtimes began at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\n\tForecasts<\/a> for the R-rated Mortal Kombat II came down into the $40Ms, and the question remains whether the second weekend of The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a> will beat it, with that sequel expected to get a big boost from Mother\u2019s Day. Lionsgate\u2019s Michael is expected to bring in a female crowd on Sunday as well. Disney has pushed out extra spots this week for Devil Wears Prada 2 targeting Mother\u2019s Day moviegoers.<\/p>\n

\n\tDevil Wears Prada 2 ended the week with $101.8M, with the movie already past $300M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, a $40M+ start for the Simon McQuoid-directed sequel based on the Midway video game is a great start for Mortal Kombat II, considering the previous 2021 installment saw its opening and grosses siphoned from a Covid-era theatrical day-and-date release on HBO Max with $23.3M. That movie finaled at $42.3M domestic, and the opening for its sequel could outstrip that entire gross alone.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/a>: The Tour (Live in 3D) brought in $2.2M in overall previews including Thursday night and April 29 early-access shows at\u00a02,350\u00a0locations.\u00a0The pic directed by Eilish and James Cameron is expected to bring in $6M-$9M.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios\u2019 Sheep Detectives held previews Thursday night starting at 2 p.m. as well as earlier previews. All in, it was $1M. The pic is expected to open to around $12M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRest of the week:<\/p>\n

\n\t1. The Devil Wears Prada 2 (20th) 4,150 theaters, Wk $101.8M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Michael (LG) 3,955 theaters, Wk $74.1M (-43%), Total $203.9M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3. Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 3,017 theaters, Wk $11.9M (-32%), Total $321.7M\/Wk 7<\/p>\n

\n\t4. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Uni) 3,419 theaters, Wk $14.9M (-41%), Total $405.5M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5. Hokum (Neon) 1,885 theaters, Wk $9.1M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM UPDATE: The moms and their daughters will decide who reigns supreme at this weekend\u2019s box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[271518,88,23923,23388,264820],"class_list":["post-631921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft","tag-entertainment","tag-mortal-kombat-ii","tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2","tag-the-sheep-detectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}