opened in early May to $77 million in North America<\/a>\u00a0and $233 million globally over the weekend \u2014 nearly three times above the start of the original. The comedy sequel remained a big-screen draw with $217 million in North America and $458 million overseas to stand as the fourth biggest domestic, third largest international and fourth-highest grossing worldwide release to date.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d was based on Lauren Weisberg\u2019s 2003 novel, a roman \u00e0 clef about working as an assistant to Vogue boss Anna Wintour. The second movie, which brought back the original director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, picks up 20 years later as Anne Hathaway\u2019s Andy Sachs returns to Runway magazine as a features editor under Meryl Streep\u2019s all-powerful editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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