Devil Wears Prada 2 tops box office
- Disney’s 20th Century sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened at No. 1 with $77 million domestic and about $233.6 million worldwide. - The movie beat tracking, pulled more than $10 million in previews, and delivered one of 2026’s biggest global starts for any Hollywood release. - It matters because a female-led legacy sequel, not a superhero film, just launched summer box office at blockbuster scale.
Box office stories are usually about capes, cartoons, or giant action franchises. This weekend, it was fashion. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened with $77 million in the U.S. and roughly $233.6 million worldwide, which put it comfortably at No. 1 and instantly made it one of the year’s biggest Hollywood launches. ### Wait — who actually released this movie? This is the first thing worth clearing up, because some early writeups got it wrong. The sequel comes from 20th Century Studios and Disney, not Lionsgate. Box Office Mojo lists the release under 20th Century, and the major trade reports on the opening weekend do too. Pretty big by any normal standard, and especially big for this kind of movie. The domestic debut landed at $77 million, while the global opening reached about $233.6 million. That put it ahead of preweekend tracking in the U.S. and made it the second-best global opening this year for an MPA title, behind only Super Mario Galaxy Movie. ### Was this just a U.S. nostalgia hit? No — that’s the part that makes the result feel more durable. The movie pulled about $156.6 million from overseas markets alone and opened at No. 1 in most major territories. Deadline also noted that the opening weekend by itself already equals about 72% of the entire global run of the 2006 original, which finished around $326.5 million worldwide. ### Why did people show up like this? Basically, Disney found the sweet spot between nostalgia and event status. The sequel brought back Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — the exact cast combination fans wanted. But this was not just older viewers revisiting a favorite. The opening was also a real big-screen occasion, not a streaming-afterthought sequel. ### Why does Hollywood care so much about this one? Because summer usually starts with a superhero movie aimed at the broadest possible crowd. This time, a female-led legacy sequel about fashion media kicked off the season and still posted blockbuster numbers. That gives studios a very different data point — one that says enough. ### Does this mean superhero movies are in trouble? Not exactly. It means the old assumption — that only comic-book or
