{"id":468503,"date":"2026-05-04T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/468503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:10:10","slug":"the-devil-wears-prada-2-steps-lively-and-repeats-for-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/468503\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Devil Wears Prada 2&#8217; Steps Lively and Repeats for Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn today\u2019s episode of \u201cDaily Variety\u201d podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety\u2019s Jack Dunn breaks down the eye-popping opening weekend for <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/devil-wears-prada-2-box-office-opening-weekend-michael-1236732410\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20th Century\u2019s \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d and a strong week 2 hold for last week\u2019s surprise hit, \u201cMichael.\u201d<\/a> The triumphant return of Miranda Priestly and Co. adds momentum and diversity to what has been a surprisingly strong spring at the multiplexes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d topped $233 million worldwide with a strong opening in the U.S. and abroad. The big turnout for the adult drama that is a sequel to the beloved 2006 film is another sign of consistency at the box office that has been missing in recent years. The one-two-three-four punch of Amazon MGM\u2019s \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d Universal\/Illumination\u2019s \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,\u201d Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cMichael\u201d and now Disney\/20th Century\u2019s \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d has been a great warmup for the summer months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIf you\u2019re Disney and 20th Century Studios, you\u2019re definitely popping some bubbly this weekend for sure,\u201d says Jack Dunn, Variety\u2018s associate web editor, who helps cover box office. \u201cWith $77 million domestically and a whopping $156 million overseas, for a total of $233 million \u2014 I guess \u2018gird your loins\u2019 and all those quotes translate to any language, because that is a stellar number for overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMichael\u2019s\u201d drop of just 44% in its second weekend was also notable for the Michael Jackson musical biopic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe holding power is really blowing people away. It looks like this movie is sticking around,\u201d Dunn says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/daily-variety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Daily Variety<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-daily-variety-287806641\/\">iHeartPodcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-strictly-business-30950719\/\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Variety\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPo1esChL02h3WQo69TiAag\">YouTube Podcast<\/a>\u00a0channel,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/57f4fab9-d055-4e4f-9bbd-a33a01dd6a40\/strictly-business\">Amazon Music<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0gXghvpBqLBXznnxGVsPt5\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and other podcast platforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s episode of \u201cDaily Variety\u201d podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety\u2019s Jack Dunn breaks down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[38570,18,117,19,17,327,100467],"class_list":{"0":"post-468503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-daily-variety","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116518363211337492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468503","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=468503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}