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		<title>Devil Wears Prada 2: Stars&#8217; Salaries vs. One Extra&#8217;s $28.50</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<li>Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt each earned $12.5 million for The Devil Wears Prada 2 via a &#8220;favored nations&#8221; deal</li>
<li>All three stars could earn over $20 million each once box office bonuses kick in — and the film has already grossed $253 million in six days</li>
<li>Meanwhile, a viral extra named Matthew Ables worked 15 hours on set and took home just $28.50 after buying a required suit</li>
<li>Ables&#8217; TikTok about his experience racked up 18 million combined views after the film&#8217;s May 1 premiere</li>
<li>The $100 million sequel&#8217;s entire leading cast salary — $37.5 million — exceeded the first film&#8217;s entire production budget</li>
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<p>The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a story of two very different paydays. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt each walked away with $12.5 million — and that&#8217;s before bonuses. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles content creator named Matthew Ables spent 15 hours on set, appeared in three seconds of the film, and netted $28.50 after buying the suit he was required to wear.</p>
<p>Both stories went viral this week, and together they paint a pretty vivid picture of Hollywood&#8217;s food chain.</p>
<h2>$12.5 Million Each — and Meryl Made Sure Everyone Got the Same</h2>
<p>According to <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/news/devil-wears-prada-2-salaries-meryl-streep-hathaway-pay-1236741185/">Variety</a>, which spoke to multiple sources close to the production, Streep was the linchpin. 20th Century Studios came to the table knowing she was the one who had to say yes — and she did, for $12.5 million. But here&#8217;s the part that&#8217;s genuinely surprising: Streep could have commanded significantly more to reprise Miranda Priestly&#8217;s silver bob, and instead she brokered what&#8217;s known in the industry as a &#8220;favored nations&#8221; deal, ensuring Hathaway and Blunt received exactly the same salary.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a rare and notably classy move — one that honors the ensemble energy that made the original 2006 film such an enduring classic. On screen, Miranda treats her underlings like furniture. Off screen, Streep apparently had her costars&#8217; backs.</p>
<p>The base salaries are just the start. All three women negotiated box office bonuses tied to pre-agreed grossing milestones, and those bonuses have already begun paying out. With the film crossing $253 million globally in its first six days, sources told Variety each star could ultimately earn over $20 million if audiences keep showing up — which, based on projections of up to $42 million in its second weekend, seems likely.</p>
<p>To put that in perspective: the combined $37.5 million in star salaries alone exceeded the entire $35 million budget of the original Devil Wears Prada. The sequel carried a $100 million budget, which director David Frankel has previously acknowledged was spent largely on cast. Interestingly, Variety notes this still isn&#8217;t the largest payday of Streep&#8217;s career — that honor goes to her work on Netflix&#8217;s 2021 film Don&#8217;t Look Up, where the streaming giant&#8217;s back-end buyout structure resulted in an even bigger check.</p>
<p>Representatives for 20th Century Studios, CAA (which represents all three actresses), Streep, and Blunt declined to comment. Reps for Hathaway did not return requests.</p>
<h2>The Extra Who Made $28.50 — and Ate Butter Chicken Next to Dinosaur Fossils</h2>
<p>Now for the other end of the spectrum.</p>
<p>Matthew Ables was just walking through Midtown Manhattan last July when he spotted something unmistakable: Meryl Streep, in full Miranda Priestly mode, filming outside 1221 Sixth Avenue — the building used as the offices of the fictional Runway magazine. A crowd had gathered, sensing something was happening. Then, as Ables described it, &#8220;we see the wig. And then she turns around and starts waving to everyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rather than just watch, Ables spotted a posted notice with the name of the production company and tracked down the background casting department. Two weeks later, he had an email asking him to report to set for two roles: a Met Gala paparazzo and — this is genuinely great — an &#8220;Angry Upscale Central Park Pedestrian in a Rush.&#8221;</p>
<p>The casting call required multiple wardrobe options for each role, including a suit for the gala scene. Ables hit Macy&#8217;s, H&amp;M, and Urban Outfitters in a frenzy, then reported to the holding area at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on West 83rd Street, alongside hundreds of other extras. He changed into his new black Alfani suit, and then a wardrobe team member called out asking if anyone was wearing a designer suit. Ables, who by his own admission knows little about fashion, thought Alfani was Armani. He said yes. It did not go well.</p>
<p>&#8220;She thought I was trying to lie to her and get better placement in the scene so she got angry and was like, &#8216;We don&#8217;t have time to mess around on this set,'&#8221; Ables recalled to the New York Post. Fortunately, the suit passed muster for both scenes, so he was able to return everything else he&#8217;d bought.</p>
<p>The Central Park pedestrian scene took about an hour — real passersby kept wandering into the shot. Then came the Met Gala scene, filmed on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History starting at 9 p.m., with Streep and Stanley Tucci (who plays Runway&#8217;s art director) present for most of the night. They filmed it roughly 25 times. Wrapped at 3 a.m.</p>
<p>Somewhere in the middle of all that, extras broke for dinner inside the museum&#8217;s lobby. &#8220;The food was good, they had spaghetti and butter chicken, but it was interesting because I was eating around these fossils of dinosaurs,&#8221; Ables said. He also noted that one crew member had a particularly unglamorous assignment: collecting every piece of trash from every extra and sorting it for recycling, piece by piece.</p>
<p>After 15 hours, Ables received a check for $238.50. But the suit had cost him $210. His actual take-home: $28.50. &#8220;The suit came out to about $210, so I didn&#8217;t lose money in the end,&#8221; he said — finding the bright side with the energy of someone who genuinely doesn&#8217;t regret any of it.</p>
<p>He made a video about the experience that racked up 18 million combined views. So in terms of content ROI, Matthew Ables arguably had a pretty good day.</p>
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<h2>The Machine Behind the Movie</h2>
<p>While Ables was sorting out his suit situation in the holding area, Disney&#8217;s marketing team was building one of the most elaborate studio campaigns in recent memory. The fictional Runway magazine was actually printed as a real 90-plus-page issue — with Emily Blunt on the cover as her character Emily Charlton — and distributed at newsstands that popped up in New York and Los Angeles. A giant red shoe with a pitchfork heel toured high-traffic plazas in six cities. Branded vending machines at AMC theaters let fans select their &#8220;fashion emergency&#8221; and receive a L&#8217;Oréal product or a copy of the magazine in return.</p>
<p>The world premiere at Lincoln Center on April 20 turned the entire courtyard into a fashion runway — tented, draped in silk and sheer fabric, and streamed live on Disney+, Hulu, TikTok, and ABC News. Partners included Dior, Samsung, Mercedes-Maybach, and Google, which recreated Runway&#8217;s fashion closet with a virtual try-on activation. Starbucks sent three assistants and an intern in green trench coats to deliver coffee on the red carpet. Grey Goose temporarily rebranded as Cerulean Goose and served reimagined espresso martinis inspired by Miranda Priestly&#8217;s coffee order.</p>
<p>&#8220;We decided that we were not going to do a standard step-and-repeat or anything that looked standard at a movie premiere, but instead, we were going to make it feel like the fashion event of the season,&#8221; said Lylle Breier, EVP of global marketing partnerships at Disney. Twenty official promotional partners. Some collaborations two years in the making. A campaign that Breier described simply as: &#8220;Everybody wants this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miranda Priestly would probably find something to criticize. But $253 million in six days suggests the rest of the world disagrees.</p>
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		<title>Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak Hold Hands at Movie Date</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak were spotted hand-in-hand at a screening of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in LA, reigniting romance rumors that have swirled for nearly two years.</p>
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<li>Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak were spotted holding hands at a screening of <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em> in Los Angeles on May 7</li>
<li>The pair wore coordinating sparkly outfits and were filmed at the concessions stand and walking in and out of the theater</li>
<li>Romance rumors between the two have been building since December 2024, when they were first spotted together in Aspen</li>
<li>Carey has previously teased there&#8217;s &#8220;maybe a little love&#8221; between them, while .Paak was recently linked to Jeannie Mai</li>
<li>The two collaborated on &#8220;Play This Song&#8221; from Carey&#8217;s album <em>Here For It All</em></li>
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<p>Nearly two years of will-they-won&#8217;t-they just got a lot more interesting. Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak were spotted holding hands at Century City Mall in Los Angeles on Thursday night, catching a screening of <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em> — and the footage, obtained by TMZ, is hard to explain away as just two friends grabbing popcorn.</p>
<p>In the clip, the two can be seen lined up at the AMC concessions stand before walking in and out of the theater together, hand-in-hand. Both dressed to impress: Carey, 57, wore a chic black dress with platform heels, a matching blazer, a lariat-style belt, and a glittering necklace. .Paak, 40, matched her energy in a black suit with sparkling pinstripes, an open collar, round sunglasses, and his own necklace. Coordinated outfits for a movie night? That&#8217;s not nothing.</p>
<p>Reps for both stars did not return comment requests.</p>
<h2>How the Rumors Started</h2>
<p>This goes back to December 2024, when the pair were first photographed holding hands heading into Catch Steak in Aspen — a destination that, as anyone who follows celebrity gossip knows, is basically shorthand for romance. Eyewitnesses told TMZ they looked &#8220;super happy,&#8221; with .Paak&#8217;s arm around Carey&#8217;s waist at one point. Sources at the time pushed back, saying they were collaborating on new music in Carey&#8217;s Aspen studio and were absolutely not dating. They even left the restaurant separately, as if to prove the point.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t quite land. The rumors kept simmering.</p>
<p>The musical connection is real, at least. The two released <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6MljmKZLh52AUR1v5WpWst?si=JRKOZDG6TfCBRJVxbb-OZg">&#8220;Play This Song&#8221;</a> together in September, the second track off Carey&#8217;s album <em>Here For It All</em>. When .Paak posted an Instagram carousel of the pair at the time, he wrote: <em>&#8220;I want you to grab the hand of the person you love and tell them &#8216;BABY IM HERE FOR IT ALL!!&#8217; @mariahcarey thank you for letting me be a part of your epic journey. I&#8217;m forever grateful and truly humbled.&#8221;</em> Romantic? Maybe. Enthusiastic collaborator energy? Also possible. The line keeps blurring.</p>
<p>Then came the interviews. When Carey appeared on <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/a/backwoodsaltar/mariah-carey-speaks-on-anderson-paak-relationship-rumors">Gayle King&#8217;s show</a>, she played it coy, saying .Paak &#8220;just likes to hold my hand.&#8221; On Keke Palmer&#8217;s podcast, she was a little more forthcoming — saying the two first met while working on <em>Here For It All</em> and, when pressed about the dating rumors, teased that there is &#8220;maybe a little love&#8221; between them. Mariah Carey does not do accidents. That was a choice.</p>
<h2>The Jeannie Mai Complication</h2>
<p>The timeline gets a little tangled. Earlier this year, .Paak — real name Brandon Paak Anderson — sparked a separate round of speculation when he was spotted with Jeannie Mai at his West Hollywood restaurant, Andy&#8217;s, in February, just before Valentine&#8217;s Day. Those rumors faded without much resolution, and now here he is again, very publicly hand-in-hand with Carey at a mall movie theater.</p>
<p>.Paak filed for divorce from his wife of over a decade, Jae Lin, in January 2024, and was reportedly seeking joint legal custody of their children.</p>
<p>Carey, for her part, has had no shortage of high-profile relationships over the years. She was married to music executive Tommy Mottola from 1993 to 1998 — a marriage she&#8217;s described as deeply controlling — and later to Nick Cannon from 2008 to 2014, with whom she shares <a href="https://people.com/all-about-mariah-carey-nick-cannon-twins-moroccan-and-monroe-11877048">15-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe</a>. She&#8217;s also been linked to Derek Jeter, Eminem, Luis Miguel, James Packer, Bryan Tanaka, and Eric Benet over the years.</p>
<p>Neither Carey nor .Paak has confirmed anything officially. But at a certain point, the hand-holding speaks for itself — and Mariah, of all people, knows exactly what she&#8217;s doing when cameras are around.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Wei]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 07:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a massive hit — but the original film changed everything for Meryl Streep. Here's the full story of how Miranda Priestly remade a legend.</p>
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<li>The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened to $77M domestically and $233M globally, already outpacing the original&#8217;s entire run</li>
<li>Meryl Streep initially turned down the first film — then doubled her asking price and got it</li>
<li>Streep&#8217;s Miranda Priestly performance in 2006 launched a second wave of stardom that made her a mainstream icon</li>
<li>Streep has never attended the Met Gala despite standing invitations — her rep confirmed it&#8217;s simply &#8220;never been her scene&#8221;</li>
<li>The sequel marks Streep&#8217;s biggest box office debut ever, and her first major theatrical release since 2017&#8217;s The Post</li>
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<p>Twenty years ago, Meryl Streep walked onto a film set in a silver wig, spoke barely above a whisper, and changed her career forever. Now, with <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em> opening to $233 million worldwide in its debut weekend — the second-biggest global launch of 2026 — it&#8217;s worth asking: how did a &#8220;chick flick&#8221; about a fashion magazine turn the most celebrated actress of her generation into a genuine pop culture icon?</p>
<p>The short answer is Miranda Priestly. The longer answer involves a salary negotiation, a near-retirement, and a performance so controlled it rewrote what audiences thought Meryl Streep was capable of.</p>
<p>https://youtube.com/watch?v=PMd1at7OwiE%3Fsi%3Des054YjvQ4PAUFwt</p>
<h2>The Legend Before the Icon</h2>
<p>By 2006, Streep was already a monument. Two Oscars from 13 nominations. Collaborations with Michael Cimino, Mike Nichols, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, and Spike Jonze. An AFI Life Achievement Award at 55. She had delivered what many consider the greatest screen performance in cinema history with <em>Sophie&#8217;s Choice</em> in 1982 — playing a Holocaust survivor forced to choose which of her children would die — and won her second Oscar for it. She had also famously rewritten her own dialogue in <em>Kramer vs. Kramer</em>, insisting her character not be reduced to a lazy villain, and crafted a courtroom scene so raw it&#8217;s startling to learn the script didn&#8217;t provide it.</p>
<p>She was, by every measure, a legend. But &#8220;legend&#8221; and &#8220;beloved&#8221; are not always the same thing.</p>
<p>The image that had calcified around Streep was of a technically formidable, accent-perfecting, award-collecting force who trafficked in suffering. Audiences respected her enormously and occasionally found her exhausting. Her comedic ventures didn&#8217;t move the box office needle. She was entering her 40s in an industry that treats women in their 40s as a problem to be managed. Quirkier projects like <em>Adaptation</em> and <em>Angels in America</em> kept her credibility intact, but nothing had cracked open a new mainstream audience for her.</p>
<p>Then came the call about a movie based on Lauren Weisberger&#8217;s 2003 novel about working as a personal assistant to a thinly-veiled Anna Wintour.</p>
<p>She said no.</p>
<h2>The Negotiation That Changed Everything</h2>
<p>Streep has since revealed on <em>Open Book with Jenna</em> that she initially turned the role down flat. &#8220;They called me up, and they made an offer, and I said &#8216;No. I&#8217;m not going to do it,'&#8221; she recalled. She was 56 and, by her own admission, contemplating retirement. &#8220;I&#8217;m 56 years old, it took me this long to understand that I could do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>What changed her mind was a realization about leverage. She recognized the script&#8217;s potential — and decided to test it. &#8220;I wanted to see if I doubled my ask,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and they went right away and said, &#8216;Sure.'&#8221; She was in.</p>
<p>The producers had reportedly been hesitant about casting her at all, unsure she could be funny. (A baffling concern for anyone who has seen <em>Death Becomes Her</em>.) What they got was something more interesting than funny: a performance of icy, aristocratic minimalism that made every other choice in the film look loud by comparison.</p>
<h2>What Made Miranda Priestly Work</h2>
<p>The Miranda of Weisberger&#8217;s novel is not a complicated creation. She&#8217;s a pantomime villain — mean-spirited, thinly drawn, a punching bag in reverse. That works fine for a beach read. It doesn&#8217;t work for a film you want people to quote for two decades.</p>
<p>Streep&#8217;s Miranda never raises her voice. She doesn&#8217;t need to. A raised eyebrow does the damage. An imperious pause before &#8220;That&#8217;s all&#8221; lands harder than any shout. The famous cerulean monologue — where Miranda dismantles Andy&#8217;s smug certainty about fashion being beneath her — is delivered with the calm of someone who has already won every argument she&#8217;s ever entered. The genius is that Streep plays the character as someone whose aloofness is partly genuine and partly armor, a woman who has helped shape a brutal world and knows exactly what it cost her.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s monstrous and magnetic in equal measure. As Tina Fey once put it, b*tches get stuff done — and you never doubt Miranda&#8217;s power, even as you wince at how she wields it.</p>
<p>The performance earned Streep her 15th Oscar nomination. More importantly, it earned her something she hadn&#8217;t quite had before: a fandom.</p>
<p>https://youtube.com/watch?v=-rDTRuCOs9g%3Fsi%3DDm6GU7100sKODgN7</p>
<h2>The Second Wave</h2>
<p>As <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em> stuck around in theaters for months — and then in the culture for years — it became clear that Streep&#8217;s performance was the adhesive holding the whole thing together. Younger audiences who had no particular attachment to <em>Sophie&#8217;s Choice</em> or <em>Kramer vs. Kramer</em> were doing impressions of Miranda Priestly. Making memes. Wearing the aesthetic. You can&#8217;t make a meme from a Holocaust drama. You absolutely can from &#8220;By all means, move at a glacial pace.&#8221;</p>
<p>What followed was a genuine reinvention. <em>Mamma Mia!</em> in 2008 proved she could carry a broad, exuberantly silly crowd-pleaser and make audiences dance in the aisles with her. <em>Julie &amp; Julia</em> made her a smash with the older female demographic that Hollywood chronically ignores. <em>It&#8217;s Complicated</em> opposite Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin gave her a rom-com hit. Even <em>The Iron Lady</em> — arguably one of her clumsier performances, playing Margaret Thatcher as equal parts camp harridan and underestimated girlboss — pulled in $115 million worldwide and handed her a third Oscar. None of those films had the precise wit of <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em>, but they all ran on the same newly ignited current: Meryl, having fun, letting audiences in.</p>
<p>She had cracked a new model of screen-icon status. Not the cold, chameleonic technician of the prestige-drama years. Something warmer, more accessible — a great Hollywood entertainer who happened to also be the greatest actress alive.</p>
<h2>The Sequel, the Comeback, and the Met Gala She Never Attended</h2>
<p>Getting Streep back for a sequel was no small feat. Director David Frankel, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, and the entire original cast had publicly dismissed the idea for years. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re all on record multiple times saying we wouldn&#8217;t do a sequel,&#8221; McKenna admitted. &#8220;I think I said that in 2021!&#8221; What unlocked it, Frankel said, was McKenna&#8217;s screenplay — a vision that felt genuinely new rather than a rehash. Streep agreed when she felt the project offered &#8220;an opportunity to say something completely new about these characters and about the world that they inhabit.&#8221;</p>
<p>That world has changed considerably. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em> picks up Andy Sachs returning to Runway as a features editor, navigating a media landscape decimated by tech money and clickbait economics — a timely hook that gave the story real stakes beyond nostalgia. The full original cast returned: Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci, all back in the hallowed halls of Runway.</p>
<p>Hathaway, for her part, has been effusive about the experience. &#8220;I loved making the first,&#8221; she told <em>People</em>. &#8220;I know I was stressed and anxious and all those things, but it&#8217;s one of the most hilarious experiences ever because of the people I was with.&#8221; Of Streep specifically, she said: &#8220;She&#8217;s someone I admire. Someone who defines how it&#8217;s done. Somebody who is just living greatness and never rests on that laurel, but is always pushing herself to expand as an artist. She&#8217;s unbelievable.&#8221;</p>
<p>The timing of the release — opening May 1, the day before the Met Gala — was not accidental. Miranda Priestly is, of course, a character built in Anna Wintour&#8217;s image, and Wintour has chaired the Met benefit for over three decades. Social media lit up with speculation that Streep herself would finally make her Met debut. She didn&#8217;t. She never has. &#8220;Meryl has been invited to the Met Gala for many years but has never attended,&#8221; her representative told <em>People</em> in a statement. &#8220;While she appreciates Vogue, Anna, and her incredible imagination and stamina — it has never quite been her scene.&#8221;</p>
<p>What Miranda Priestly <em>does</em> wear to a Met Gala-esque event in the sequel&#8217;s opening scene, though, is a plunging scarlet Balenciaga gown that Streep helped select herself. Costume designer Molly Rogers recalled their initial lunch meeting: &#8220;Almost at the same time, we both said, &#8216;It&#8217;s going to be red. The devil reappears in red! Case closed.'&#8221;</p>
<h2>A Box Office Force at 76</h2>
<p><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em>&#8216;s $233 million global opening ranks as the second-biggest worldwide debut of 2026, trailing only <em>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie</em> and beating the Michael Jackson biopic <em>Michael</em>. It&#8217;s already expected to outgross the original&#8217;s entire $326 million lifetime haul before the month is out. Disney spent roughly $100 million to produce it and another $80 million on marketing — a bet that is paying off spectacularly, with 76% of the opening weekend audience being women and an enthusiastic A- CinemaScore.</p>
<p>For context: the original <em>Devil Wears Prada</em> opened to $27.5 million in 2006. This is a different scale entirely.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a sensational opening for a comedy-drama,&#8221; said box office analyst David A. Gross. &#8220;Very few dramedies do this kind of business once, let alone a second time that&#8217;s bigger.&#8221; The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/devil-wears-prada-2-box-office.html">New York Times noted</a> it&#8217;s the biggest domestic debut for a traditional comedy since <em>Pitch Perfect</em> in 2015.</p>
<p>Streep, now a 21-time Oscar nominee, a four-time Emmy winner, and a Kennedy Center honoree, hasn&#8217;t led a wide theatrical release since Steven Spielberg&#8217;s <em>The Post</em> in 2017. Her recent work — <em>Don&#8217;t Look Up</em>, <em>The Prom</em>, <em>Let Them All Talk</em> — all went to streaming. The multiplex missed her. This weekend proved the feeling was mutual.</p>
<p>In a promotional interview that cut through the usual PR polish, Streep was asked whether she&#8217;d softened Miranda for the sequel. Her answer said everything about where she stands in the industry right now: &#8220;I think when we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now — we got the villains and we got the good guys — and it&#8217;s so boring. What&#8217;s really interesting about life is that some of the heroes are flawed and some of the villains are human and interesting and have their own strengths. So that&#8217;s what I like about this. It&#8217;s messier.&#8221;</p>
<p>It takes a certain kind of star to casually dismiss the Marvel machine while promoting the film kicking off Disney&#8217;s summer slate. But that&#8217;s precisely the point. <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em> didn&#8217;t just make Meryl Streep an icon. It made her the kind of icon who doesn&#8217;t have to answer to anyone — and knows it.</p>
<p>Up next: a Joni Mitchell biopic from Cameron Crowe, a lead role opposite Sigourney Weaver in Joseph Cedar&#8217;s corporate thriller <em>Useful Idiots</em>, and a matriarch turn in a TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s <em>The Corrections</em>. Whatever she does, the audience will follow. Miranda Priestly made sure of that.</p>
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<li>The Devil Wears Prada 2 debuted at No. 1 globally with $233.6M worldwide and $77M domestically in its opening weekend</li>
<li>The sequel nearly triples the original 2006 film&#8217;s $27.5M domestic opening and already represents 72% of its entire lifetime gross</li>
<li>Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all return alongside original director David Frankel</li>
<li>The film earned an &#8220;A&#8221; CinemaScore and broke even — turning a profit — within its first 24 to 48 hours of release</li>
<li>It marks the highest-ever opening weekend for a Meryl Streep film</li>
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<p>Miranda Priestly is back. And she did not come to play.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_devil_wears_prada_2">The Devil Wears Prada 2</a> stormed into theaters this weekend and immediately rewrote the record books, debuting at No. 1 both domestically and globally with a jaw-dropping $233.6 million worldwide haul. Of that, $77 million came from North American audiences alone — nearly triple the $27.5 million the original earned when it opened in the summer of 2006. Internationally, audiences contributed over $156 million, making this the second-biggest worldwide opening of 2026, behind only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.</p>
<p>Disney and 20th Century Studios had to be holding their breath going in. Sequels to beloved, non-franchise films are notoriously tricky, and reuniting the original cast — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — plus bringing back director David Frankel required a $100 million budget, more than double the original&#8217;s $35-40 million. But the gamble paid off almost immediately. Aided by ferocious word-of-mouth and an &#8220;A&#8221; CinemaScore from exit polls, the film effectively broke even and turned a profit within roughly 24 to 48 hours of its global rollout.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some things never go out of fashion,&#8221; Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore, told CNBC. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to predict whether audiences will embrace or reject a sequel to a beloved original, but the creative teams, the marketing folks and the distribution team of Disney&#8217;s 20th Century Studios put together an irresistible hit movie that had not just appeal in the United States but also around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>The $77 million domestic debut places the film fourth on the year&#8217;s domestic chart, behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($131M), Michael ($97.5M), and Project Hail Mary ($80M). But the story overseas is where Prada 2 really made its mark — and where it&#8217;s clear that millennial and Gen X audiences around the world were ready to return to Runway magazine in a big way.</p>
<h2>What This Means for Streep, Hathaway, and the Summer Season</h2>
<p>This is the highest opening weekend of Meryl Streep&#8217;s entire career. Let that sink in. One of the most decorated actors in Hollywood history, and it took a fashion-world sequel at age 76 to give her the biggest box office debut of her life. It&#8217;s also one of the best openings ever for a film headlined by a female-centric cast — in the same conversation as the Wicked films and Pitch Perfect 2, ahead of Maleficent and the live-action Cinderella.</p>
<p>The original <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_devil_wears_prada">Devil Wears Prada</a> was a quiet overachiever. In the summer of 2006, packed with Superman, X-Men, and Pirates of the Caribbean, a Streep-and-Hathaway dramedy about journalism and the fashion industry felt like counterprogramming before anyone used that word seriously. It never hit No. 1, but it didn&#8217;t need to — it ran long and quiet and earned $124.7 million domestically and $326.5 million worldwide on a modest budget. Twenty years later, the sequel arrived and did in one weekend what the original did in months.</p>
<p>By next weekend, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is expected to surpass the original&#8217;s entire worldwide lifetime gross. It currently represents 72% of that number after just three days.</p>
<h2>The Rest of the Weekend</h2>
<p>The Michael Jackson biopic <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/michael">Michael</a> held impressively in second place, dropping only 44% to add $54 million domestically in its second frame. Its worldwide total now sits at $423-424 million — remarkable numbers for a biopic, even one with a price tag estimated between $150-200 million. The film is firmly on track to cross half a billion globally.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_galaxy_movie">The Super Mario Galaxy Movie</a> continued its long, sturdy run in third place, adding $12.1 million in its fifth weekend to bring its domestic total to $402.6 million and its worldwide haul to $894 million. The billion-dollar watch is officially on.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/project_hail_mary">Project Hail Mary</a>, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, became the first film since Avatar: Fire and Ash to spend seven consecutive weekends in the top five. Its $8.5 million this weekend brings its domestic total to $318.3 million, with a global finish potentially approaching $700 million — a number only five Hollywood films hit in all of 2025.</p>
<p>Neon&#8217;s horror newcomer <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hokum">Hokum</a>, starring Adam Scott and directed by Damian McCarthy, rounded out the top five with $6.4 million from 1,885 theaters. With an 86% critics score, it&#8217;s the distributor&#8217;s best opening since last summer&#8217;s Together.</p>
<p>In the U.K. and Ireland specifically, Prada 2 opened to £9.3 million ($12.6 million), also landing at No. 1, per Comscore. <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/global/devil-wears-prada-2-uk-ireland-box-office-1236738198/">Michael</a> moved to second there with $9.4 million in its second frame, bringing its U.K. cumulative to $31.2 million.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, this coming weekend brings <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mortal_kombat_ii">Mortal Kombat II</a>, the Hugh Jackman family mystery The Sheep Detectives, and the James Cameron-directed <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/billie_eilish_hit_me_hard_and_soft_the_tour_live_in_3d">Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft — The Tour Live in 3D</a>. It&#8217;ll be a crowded house. But this weekend belonged entirely to Prada — and to the four people who made us fall in love with it the first time.</p>
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