‘Devil Wears Prada’ Sequel Leads Box Office With $77 Million

Older actresses aren’t bankable? The blockbuster era for traditional comedies is over, with streaming having siphoned away the audience?

Meryl Streep, 76, stepped back into Miranda Priestly’s sky-high heels over the weekend and demolished those Hollywood orthodoxies.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2,” an old-fashioned workplace comedy, collected roughly $77 million at theaters in North America from Friday through Sunday, according to Comscore, a data service. It was the biggest domestic opening for a traditional comedy since 2015, when “Pitch Perfect 2” sold $69 million in tickets over its first three days, or roughly $97 million after adjusting for inflation.

The film, rated PG-13, took in an additional $157 million overseas, for a global total of about $234 million.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/devil-wears-prada-2-box-office.html