If you have been complaining about the recent downpour of sequels to classic 90s movies, bear with it a little more. With The Devil Wears Prada 2, Disney made a sequel that stormed the global box office with a reported $233 million opening weekend. That’s almost 250% more than its reported $100 million production budget, all recovered within just the first three days.
To give you an idea of how big an opening this is, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has also set a new personal benchmark for Streep, becoming the biggest opening weekend for the actress after surpassing 2018’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (which opened at $90 million at the time, by the way). The same goes for Blunt, with the film shooting past Oppenheimer’s global opening of $174.
Out of $233 million, $156 million of the global total is reportedly from international ticket sales. In the United States, the film reportedly overtook Michael, the Jaafar Jackson-led biopic, to claim the top spot for the weekend. However, Michael has not yet been released in South Korea and Japan, so its $217 million debut missed out on these two massive markets.
Globally, the movie is now the second-biggest opening of 2026 so far, behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, with Project Hail Mary trailing just behind in the rankings. In India, the film has had a great start, earning approximately ₹13 crore in its first three days.
Led by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci, the sequel revisits Runway magazine nearly two decades later. Andy Sachs returns as a features editor under Miranda Priestly, now navigating an industry shaped by declining print relevance, algorithm-driven content, and the creeping influence of tech moguls in fashion spaces. Unlike the original, which was adapted from The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, this follow-up is an original story written and directed by the creators of the first film, Aline Brosh McKenna and David Frankel respectively.
Of course, critical reception has been mixed, but nostalgia, star power, and timely themes have combined to make it a commercial success. Whether it holds in the coming weeks will depend on word of mouth. After all, opening big is one thing, maintaining it is another.