The Devil Wears Prada 2 is doing big numbers at the box office already.
The highly anticipated sequel to the 2006 hit film, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, brought in over $77 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend.
The movie had a big global box office debut
The movie opened globally at $233 million.
How the sequel’s box office compares to the original film
It will need to surpass $535 million to beat out the run of the first movie, which brought in $326.5 million (before inflation adjustment) in 2006, per The Wrap.
The movie had its biggest success internationally in Italy, taking in $16.6 million in the country, followed by Brazil, the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Critics and audiences are responding positively
The reviews are in for the movie, and critics are largely positive. It’s going over even better with audiences, and the film currently has an 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
More about the sequel
Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation.”
Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak, and Conrad Ricamora also star.
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