Long-Awaited Sequel Struts to the Top of the Box Office

Jeenah Moon / REUTERS The long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2 strutted into theaters with a $77 million box office opening. It blew the iconic original film’s $27.5 million domestic box office debut nearly two decades ago out of the water. Its total on opening weekend came in at a whopping $233.6 million, with strong international performance, which included $156.6 million in sales. The movie, which tells the story of Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returning to Runway magazine as a features editor, has the fourth highest opening of the year, just behind box office behemoths like Michael , The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , and Project Hail Mary . “Already, the studio’s investment in more ‘Prada’ is proving to be money well spent; the second film is poised to outgross the original’s lifetime haul in a matter of weeks,” the film’s director, David Frankel, told The New York Times of their $100 million production budget. All of the original cast—Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Meryl Streep as the iconic editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly—reprise their roles. Fans loved the new entry, while critics awarded it mixed reviews. Read it at Variety Read more at The Daily Beast.

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