The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>\u201d easily topped the box office charts on Friday with $32.5 million from 4,150 North American theaters. The fashion-forward sequel is targeting $75 million to $80 million by Sunday, but some box office projectionists have earnings climbing even higher to around $90 million over its debut weekend. The first \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d premiered in June 2006. It grossed $27.5 million domestically over its opening weekend and $125 million domestically by the end of its box office run ($45 million and $204 million when adjusted for inflation).<\/p>\n\n\tOriginal director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna both returned for \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d along with original stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. The sequel follows Hathaway\u2019s Andy Sachs, now an authority in the world of fashion journalism, as she reunites with Streep\u2019s powerful editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine.<\/p>\n
\n\tLast weekend\u2019s champ, \u201cMichael,\u201d fell to second place with $14.4 million domestically on its second Friday in theaters. By Sunday, Lionsgate\u2019s musical biopic about the King of Pop should add $51 million, which represents about a 48% decline from last week\u2019s numbers. The domestic total is expected to reach $180 million by Sunday.<\/p>\n
\n\tIf \u201cMichael\u201d can hold strong, it has an outside shot at usurping 2018\u2019s \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d as the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time. That film topped out at a $910 million at the end of its box office run. Even if it falls short of that figure, \u201cMichael\u201d has an even better chance of legging out \u201cThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire\u201d as the highest-grossing Lionsgate film of all time ($865 million).<\/p>\n
\n\tAlong with \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d Angel Studios\u2019 animated \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d adaptation also hit cinemas on Friday. It landed in sixth place with an estimated $1.1 million domestically from 1,130 theaters. Andy Serkis directs and stars in the family friendly reimanging of George Orwell\u2019s 1945 allegorical novel. The starry cast also includes Jim Parsons, Iman Vellani, Seth Rogen, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close and Kieran Culkin.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy\u201d movie took third with $2.7 million domestically on Friday, and it looks to add $12 million by Sunday. That would put the video game sequel at $402 million domestically through five weekends of release.<\/p>\n
\n\tNeon\u2019s newcomer \u201cHokum\u201d took fourth place, earning an estimated $2.6 million domestically. It\u2019s targeting around $6 million by Sunday. Damian McCarthy wrote and directed the horror film, which follows a writer who goes to an Irish inn to spread the ashes of his parents, unaware that the estate is haunted by an ancient evil. Adam Scott leads the cast, which includes Peter Coonan, David Wilmot and Mallory Adams.<\/p>\n
\n\tFinally, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d landed at No. 5, grossing $2.2 million. Its North American total should hit $318 million by Sunday after adding $8.9 million through the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t be ridiculous, Andrea. Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.\u201d That\u2019s most likely the attitude at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,100467],"class_list":{"0":"post-465243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116505976841274117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}