Gird your loins: The Satan Wears Prada 2 has had an enormous opening weekend on the field workplace, making $233m (£171m, A$323m) worldwide from an overwhelmingly feminine viewers.
The Satan Wears Prada 2 earned $77m on the North American field workplace, and $156.6m internationally. Within the US and Canada, the sequel bumped Michael to second place, although the musical biopic held on in its second weekend to earn $54m, falling solely 44%.
Ladies made up about 76% of the ticket patrons, in keeping with PostTrak exit polls; 74% mentioned they’d “undoubtedly advocate” the film to mates. Critics have been a bit combined on the sequel, which finds Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs working as soon as extra for Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly on the fictional Runway journal in a much-depleted media panorama.
The Satan Wears Prada 2 is the very best opening weekend for a Meryl Streep movie by each metric, besting the $90m worldwide debut for Mamma Mia: Right here We Go Once more in 2018. It’s also the largest worldwide and world launch for Emily Blunt, topping Oppenheimer’s $180.4m worldwide opening weekend.
The Satan Wears Prada 2 value a reported $100m to supply – a big increase from the primary film’s $35m manufacturing finances. However because the film-maker, David Frankel, informed the Related Press, “By the point you end paying all the largest film stars on this planet, you continue to find yourself with mainly the identical finances for making the film as we did the primary one.”
Stars Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci have been on a fashion-forward world publicity blitz for weeks, with glamorous stops in Tokyo, London and New York. Even Anna Wintour, the inspiration for Streep’s Miranda Priestly, has been concerned this time, showing with Hathaway on the Oscars stage and with Streep on the duvet of Vogue.
The primary The Satan Wears Prada opened in June 2006 and earned greater than $326m worldwide, not adjusted for inflation. And maybe extra importantly, it firmly turned a part of the tradition thanks partially to its ever-quotable script (“gird your loins,” “groundbreaking,” “that’s all”).
This weekend marks the beginning of Hollywood’s summer season film season, an important 18-week hall that runs by way of Labor Day and typically accounts for about 40% of the annual field workplace. There are sometimes Marvel blockbusters programmed because the season’s kickoff however the mixed energy of The Satan Wears Prada 2 and Michael wasn’t a shabby substitute.
“It is a actually stable weekend,” mentioned Paul Dergarabedian, the pinnacle of market traits for Comscore. “It’s this irresistible mixture that greater than makes up for the truth that there’s not a Marvel film to kick off the summer season film season.”
It’s extremely uncommon for a female-skewing film to led the primary weekend of the US summer season field workplace, which has largely been owned by Marvel films in recent times. Prada did higher enterprise than final 12 months’s summer season kickoff Marvel film, Thunderbolts.
The North American field workplace is operating about 14% up from 2025, with about $2.8bn in home ticket gross sales so far.
Related Press contributed to this report
