{"id":1994127,"date":"2026-06-16T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1994127"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:50:01","slug":"20-years-later-the-devil-wears-prada-franchise-crosses-1-billion-usd-and-rewrites-the-rules-for-legacy-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1994127","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Later, \u2018The Devil Wears Prada\u2019 Franchise Crosses $1 Billion USD and Rewrites the Rules for Legacy Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F16%2Ftwanne-hathaway-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-stanley-tucci-The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Franchise-Surpasses-1-Billion-USD-Worldwide-Box-Office.jpg?w=1080&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-post-body col\">\n<div class=\"row post-body\">\n<aside 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hathaway meryl streep emily blunt stanley tucci The Devil Wears Prada Franchise Surpasses 1 Billion USD Worldwide Box Office&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;height&quot;:933,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;u00a9 2026 20th Century Studios&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;creditKey&quot;:&quot;general&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;annotations&quot;:null,&quot;shop&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;Shop Now&quot;}}]\" role=\"list\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell landscape\" data-gallery-index=\"1\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell-inner-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell-image-wrapper annotation-container fixed-ratio-3-2\">\n                                                                                                        <source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F16%2Fanne-hathaway-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-stanley-tucci-The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Franchise-Surpasses-1-Billion-USD-Worldwide-Box-Office-2.jpg?q=90&amp;w=1400&amp;cbr=1&amp;fit=max\" media=\"(min-width: 1260px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-meta-container credit-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"credit \">\u00a9 2026 20th Century Studios<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Entertainment<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise has crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office, with the sequel accounting for $676 million USD of that total across its first seven weeks of release<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> opened to $233.6 million USD worldwide and $77 million USD domestically, the second-best MPA global opening of 2026, and surpassed the original film\u2019s entire domestic lifetime within nine days<\/li>\n<li>The sequel reunited director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna with the full original cast, including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, on a $100 million USD production budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office this week, with 20th Century Studios and Disney\u2018s <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> now sitting at $676 million USD worldwide through seven weeks of release. The milestone makes the sequel one of the defining commercial stories of 2026 and positions it as a template for how legacy IP, handled with care, can outperform franchises built on considerably larger infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers at every stage of the run have been striking. The opening weekend of $233.6 million USD worldwide ranked as the second-best MPA global debut of the year, behind only <em>Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>. Domestically, the $77 million USD opening was above tracking estimates and above what Disney\u2019s own internal projections anticipated. Within nine days stateside, the sequel had already surpassed the $124.7 million USD domestic lifetime of the 2006 original. Italy and the UK have led offshore, with $37.3 million USD and $45.8 million USD respectively, and the film has claimed the top non-local release spot in territories as varied as Australia, Japan, Brazil, Germany and South Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p>What the numbers reflect is an audience that had been waiting. Nielsen data captured the signal early: streaming viewership for the original film was up 428% from March to April 2026, in the weeks immediately preceding the sequel\u2019s May 1 opening. That kind of pre-release surge is not manufactured by a marketing campaign alone. It points to a fanbase that had spent 20 years rewatching the original and was actively priming itself for a return.\n<\/p>\n<p>The creative bet Disney made was to give that audience exactly what it came for. Director David Frankel, writer Aline Brosh McKenna and the full original cast \u2014 Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci \u2014 all returned. The production budget landed at $100 million USD before global P&amp;A, a figure that reads as disciplined relative to the returns it has generated. There was no franchise reboot logic applied here, no recasting, no pivot toward a younger demographic. The film was built for the people who made the first one a $326.5 million USD global hit and trusted they would show up again.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contrast with comparable legacy sequels is useful context. Many nostalgia-driven sequels arriving two decades after their originals have struggled to replicate the cultural conditions that made the first films work, often because they attempt to update or expand the IP rather than return to it. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> appears to have succeeded in part by resisting that instinct, anchoring itself in the same creative team and the same emotional register rather than chasing a broader audience it did not need. Female moviegoers led the opening weekend, with 62% of the North American audience arriving after 5 p.m. on opening day, a pattern consistent with an audience that had planned the outing rather than drifted into it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The franchise now stands at over $1 billion USD combined across both films, with the original\u2019s $326.5 million USD global total and the sequel\u2019s $676 million USD and counting. Disney has released three of the top six MPA global releases of 2026 YTD, and <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> sits at fourth on that list, occupying the same ranking domestically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6737085\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>DOJ Approves Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. 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With a decade of editorial experience, she brings both a storyteller&#8217;s instinct and a strategist&#8217;s eye \u2014 spotlighting the figures and movements that shape the culture across a multitude of lanes. Her tenure is marked by high-impact conversations with the likes of RZA, Mads Mikkelsen, CORTIS, Erling Haaland, Kasing Lung, NIGO, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-footer\" class=\"post-footer row\">\n<div class=\"col-shopping-break\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-comments\">\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"post-comments none \">\n<header>\n<div class=\"heading\"><span class=\"comment-count\">0<\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-dropdown-tooltip\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row post-body\">\n<aside class=\"post-body-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-upper\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Entertainment\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time 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hathaway meryl streep emily blunt stanley tucci The Devil Wears Prada Franchise Surpasses 1 Billion USD Worldwide Box Office&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:1400,&quot;height&quot;:933,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;u00a9 2026 20th Century Studios&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;creditKey&quot;:&quot;general&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;annotations&quot;:null,&quot;shop&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;Shop Now&quot;}}]\" role=\"list\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell landscape\" data-gallery-index=\"1\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell-inner-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"carousel-cell-image-wrapper annotation-container fixed-ratio-3-2\">\n                                                                                                        <source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F16%2Fanne-hathaway-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-stanley-tucci-The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Franchise-Surpasses-1-Billion-USD-Worldwide-Box-Office-2.jpg?q=90&amp;w=1400&amp;cbr=1&amp;fit=max\" media=\"(min-width: 1260px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-meta-container credit-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"credit \">\u00a9 2026 20th Century Studios<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Entertainment<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise has crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office, with the sequel accounting for $676 million USD of that total across its first seven weeks of release<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> opened to $233.6 million USD worldwide and $77 million USD domestically, the second-best MPA global opening of 2026, and surpassed the original film\u2019s entire domestic lifetime within nine days<\/li>\n<li>The sequel reunited director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna with the full original cast, including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, on a $100 million USD production budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office this week, with 20th Century Studios and Disney\u2018s <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> now sitting at $676 million USD worldwide through seven weeks of release. The milestone makes the sequel one of the defining commercial stories of 2026 and positions it as a template for how legacy IP, handled with care, can outperform franchises built on considerably larger infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers at every stage of the run have been striking. The opening weekend of $233.6 million USD worldwide ranked as the second-best MPA global debut of the year, behind only <em>Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>. Domestically, the $77 million USD opening was above tracking estimates and above what Disney\u2019s own internal projections anticipated. Within nine days stateside, the sequel had already surpassed the $124.7 million USD domestic lifetime of the 2006 original. Italy and the UK have led offshore, with $37.3 million USD and $45.8 million USD respectively, and the film has claimed the top non-local release spot in territories as varied as Australia, Japan, Brazil, Germany and South Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p>What the numbers reflect is an audience that had been waiting. Nielsen data captured the signal early: streaming viewership for the original film was up 428% from March to April 2026, in the weeks immediately preceding the sequel\u2019s May 1 opening. That kind of pre-release surge is not manufactured by a marketing campaign alone. It points to a fanbase that had spent 20 years rewatching the original and was actively priming itself for a return.\n<\/p>\n<p>The creative bet Disney made was to give that audience exactly what it came for. Director David Frankel, writer Aline Brosh McKenna and the full original cast \u2014 Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci \u2014 all returned. The production budget landed at $100 million USD before global P&amp;A, a figure that reads as disciplined relative to the returns it has generated. There was no franchise reboot logic applied here, no recasting, no pivot toward a younger demographic. The film was built for the people who made the first one a $326.5 million USD global hit and trusted they would show up again.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contrast with comparable legacy sequels is useful context. Many nostalgia-driven sequels arriving two decades after their originals have struggled to replicate the cultural conditions that made the first films work, often because they attempt to update or expand the IP rather than return to it. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> appears to have succeeded in part by resisting that instinct, anchoring itself in the same creative team and the same emotional register rather than chasing a broader audience it did not need. Female moviegoers led the opening weekend, with 62% of the North American audience arriving after 5 p.m. on opening day, a pattern consistent with an audience that had planned the outing rather than drifted into it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The franchise now stands at over $1 billion USD combined across both films, with the original\u2019s $326.5 million USD global total and the sequel\u2019s $676 million USD and counting. Disney has released three of the top six MPA global releases of 2026 YTD, and <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> sits at fourth on that list, occupying the same ranking domestically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6737085\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>DOJ Approves Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. 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Don\u2019t miss out on the latest news by signing up for our newsletters.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"terms\">By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Sophie Caraan<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-credentials d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Source<\/h6>\n<p><span>Deadline<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Editor Assistant<\/h6>\n<p><span>Thu Tran<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    DisneyAnne HathawayEmily BluntMeryl StreepStanley TucciThe Devil Wears Pradathe devil wears prada 2\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post__body__author_info\">\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F05%2Fsophie-300.jpg?w=100&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Sophie Caraan\" class=\"post__body__author_info__avatar\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__body\">\n<p>                    Sophie Caraan<\/p>\n<p>                                    <span class=\"post__body__author_info__title\">Managing Editor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__bio_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post__body__author_info__bio\">Sophie Caraan is the Managing Editor at Hypebeast, where she sets the editorial direction, standards, and output strategy for the HQ team. With a decade of editorial experience, she brings both a storyteller&#8217;s instinct and a strategist&#8217;s eye \u2014 spotlighting the figures and movements that shape the culture across a multitude of lanes. Her tenure is marked by high-impact conversations with the likes of RZA, Mads Mikkelsen, CORTIS, Erling Haaland, Kasing Lung, NIGO, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-upper\">\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-category d-none d-lg-block\">\n<p>    Entertainment\n                                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-body-sidebar-hype-comments-container list-unstyled d-none d-lg-block\">\n<li><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-sm-inline text\">Comments<\/span><\/span>\n<div 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class=\"post-body-sidebar-published d-none d-lg-block\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-author d-none d-lg-block\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Sophie Caraan<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-credentials d-none d-lg-block\">\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Source<\/h6>\n<p><span>Deadline<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Editor Assistant<\/h6>\n<p><span>Thu Tran<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-sidebar-share d-none d-lg-block\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"post-body-article\">\n<div class=\"post-gallery-container small inner-media\">\n<div class=\"gallery-container post-gallery-contain\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"20 Years Later, \u2018The Devil Wears Prada\u2019 Franchise Crosses $1 Billion USD and Rewrites the Rules for Legacy Sequels\">\n<div 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class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise has crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office, with the sequel accounting for $676 million USD of that total across its first seven weeks of release<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> opened to $233.6 million USD worldwide and $77 million USD domestically, the second-best MPA global opening of 2026, and surpassed the original film\u2019s entire domestic lifetime within nine days<\/li>\n<li>The sequel reunited director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna with the full original cast, including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, on a $100 million USD production budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office this week, with 20th Century Studios and Disney\u2018s <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> now sitting at $676 million USD worldwide through seven weeks of release. The milestone makes the sequel one of the defining commercial stories of 2026 and positions it as a template for how legacy IP, handled with care, can outperform franchises built on considerably larger infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers at every stage of the run have been striking. The opening weekend of $233.6 million USD worldwide ranked as the second-best MPA global debut of the year, behind only <em>Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>. Domestically, the $77 million USD opening was above tracking estimates and above what Disney\u2019s own internal projections anticipated. Within nine days stateside, the sequel had already surpassed the $124.7 million USD domestic lifetime of the 2006 original. Italy and the UK have led offshore, with $37.3 million USD and $45.8 million USD respectively, and the film has claimed the top non-local release spot in territories as varied as Australia, Japan, Brazil, Germany and South Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p>What the numbers reflect is an audience that had been waiting. Nielsen data captured the signal early: streaming viewership for the original film was up 428% from March to April 2026, in the weeks immediately preceding the sequel\u2019s May 1 opening. That kind of pre-release surge is not manufactured by a marketing campaign alone. It points to a fanbase that had spent 20 years rewatching the original and was actively priming itself for a return.\n<\/p>\n<p>The creative bet Disney made was to give that audience exactly what it came for. Director David Frankel, writer Aline Brosh McKenna and the full original cast \u2014 Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci \u2014 all returned. The production budget landed at $100 million USD before global P&amp;A, a figure that reads as disciplined relative to the returns it has generated. There was no franchise reboot logic applied here, no recasting, no pivot toward a younger demographic. The film was built for the people who made the first one a $326.5 million USD global hit and trusted they would show up again.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contrast with comparable legacy sequels is useful context. Many nostalgia-driven sequels arriving two decades after their originals have struggled to replicate the cultural conditions that made the first films work, often because they attempt to update or expand the IP rather than return to it. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> appears to have succeeded in part by resisting that instinct, anchoring itself in the same creative team and the same emotional register rather than chasing a broader audience it did not need. Female moviegoers led the opening weekend, with 62% of the North American audience arriving after 5 p.m. on opening day, a pattern consistent with an audience that had planned the outing rather than drifted into it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The franchise now stands at over $1 billion USD combined across both films, with the original\u2019s $326.5 million USD global total and the sequel\u2019s $676 million USD and counting. Disney has released three of the top six MPA global releases of 2026 YTD, and <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> sits at fourth on that list, occupying the same ranking domestically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"related-stories-main-wrapper\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<div class=\"stories-container\" data-layer-list-name=\"related_stories\" data-layer-list-offset=\"0\" data-layer-list-child-selector=\".story-item\">\n<div class=\"story-item\" data-layer-item-id=\"6737085\" data-layer-item-blog-id=\"1\" data-layer-item-type=\"post\"><span>&gt;<\/span>DOJ Approves Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. 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Don\u2019t miss out on the latest news by signing up for our newsletters.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"terms\">By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Sophie Caraan<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-credentials d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Source<\/h6>\n<p><span>Deadline<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Editor Assistant<\/h6>\n<p><span>Thu Tran<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    DisneyAnne HathawayEmily BluntMeryl StreepStanley TucciThe Devil Wears Pradathe devil wears prada 2\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"post__body__author_info\">\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F05%2Fsophie-300.jpg?w=100&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max\" alt=\"Sophie Caraan\" class=\"post__body__author_info__avatar\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__body\">\n<p>                    Sophie Caraan<\/p>\n<p>                                    <span class=\"post__body__author_info__title\">Managing Editor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__body__author_info__bio_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post__body__author_info__bio\">Sophie Caraan is the Managing Editor at Hypebeast, where she sets the editorial direction, standards, and output strategy for the HQ team. With a decade of editorial experience, she brings both a storyteller&#8217;s instinct and a strategist&#8217;s eye \u2014 spotlighting the figures and movements that shape the culture across a multitude of lanes. Her tenure is marked by high-impact conversations with the likes of RZA, Mads Mikkelsen, CORTIS, Erling Haaland, Kasing Lung, NIGO, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"post-body-top-bar\" class=\"post-body-top-bar d-block d-lg-none\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Entertainment<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-share-meta-container\">\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Entertainment<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-meta\"><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-category\"><\/p>\n<p>    Entertainment<br \/>\n                                                    <\/span><span class=\"post-body-top-bar-published\"><time class=\"timeago\" datetime=\"2026-06-16T08:50:01Z\">20 Hrs ago<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-top-bar-hype-comments-container \"><span class=\"hype-count grey\"><br \/>\n             267<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"disqus-comment-count\"><span>0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"d-none d-none text\">Comments<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-tooltip\" role=\"tooltip\"><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Save<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content\">\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise has crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office, with the sequel accounting for $676 million USD of that total across its first seven weeks of release<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> opened to $233.6 million USD worldwide and $77 million USD domestically, the second-best MPA global opening of 2026, and surpassed the original film\u2019s entire domestic lifetime within nine days<\/li>\n<li>The sequel reunited director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna with the full original cast, including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, on a $100 million USD production budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> franchise crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office this week, with 20th Century Studios and Disney\u2018s <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> now sitting at $676 million USD worldwide through seven weeks of release. The milestone makes the sequel one of the defining commercial stories of 2026 and positions it as a template for how legacy IP, handled with care, can outperform franchises built on considerably larger infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers at every stage of the run have been striking. The opening weekend of $233.6 million USD worldwide ranked as the second-best MPA global debut of the year, behind only <em>Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>. Domestically, the $77 million USD opening was above tracking estimates and above what Disney\u2019s own internal projections anticipated. Within nine days stateside, the sequel had already surpassed the $124.7 million USD domestic lifetime of the 2006 original. Italy and the UK have led offshore, with $37.3 million USD and $45.8 million USD respectively, and the film has claimed the top non-local release spot in territories as varied as Australia, Japan, Brazil, Germany and South Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p>What the numbers reflect is an audience that had been waiting. Nielsen data captured the signal early: streaming viewership for the original film was up 428% from March to April 2026, in the weeks immediately preceding the sequel\u2019s May 1 opening. That kind of pre-release surge is not manufactured by a marketing campaign alone. It points to a fanbase that had spent 20 years rewatching the original and was actively priming itself for a return.\n<\/p>\n<p>The creative bet Disney made was to give that audience exactly what it came for. Director David Frankel, writer Aline Brosh McKenna and the full original cast \u2014 Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci \u2014 all returned. The production budget landed at $100 million USD before global P&amp;A, a figure that reads as disciplined relative to the returns it has generated. There was no franchise reboot logic applied here, no recasting, no pivot toward a younger demographic. The film was built for the people who made the first one a $326.5 million USD global hit and trusted they would show up again.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contrast with comparable legacy sequels is useful context. Many nostalgia-driven sequels arriving two decades after their originals have struggled to replicate the cultural conditions that made the first films work, often because they attempt to update or expand the IP rather than return to it. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> appears to have succeeded in part by resisting that instinct, anchoring itself in the same creative team and the same emotional register rather than chasing a broader audience it did not need. Female moviegoers led the opening weekend, with 62% of the North American audience arriving after 5 p.m. on opening day, a pattern consistent with an audience that had planned the outing rather than drifted into it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The franchise now stands at over $1 billion USD combined across both films, with the original\u2019s $326.5 million USD global total and the sequel\u2019s $676 million USD and counting. Disney has released three of the top six MPA global releases of 2026 YTD, and <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> sits at fourth on that list, occupying the same ranking domestically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-article\">\n<p>                                                            Read Full Article<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-author d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider share-divider\">\n<h6>Text By<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"author-name\">Sophie Caraan<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-credentials d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Source<\/h6>\n<p><span>Deadline<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"credential\">\n<h6>Editor Assistant<\/h6>\n<p><span>Thu Tran<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-share d-block d-lg-none\">\n<hr class=\"sidebar-divider\">\n<h6>Share this article<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body-content-tags\">\n<div class=\"body collapsed\">\n<p>    DisneyAnne HathawayEmily BluntMeryl StreepStanley TucciThe Devil Wears Pradathe devil wears prada 2\n                                                            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2026\/6\/anne-hathaway-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-stanley-tucci-the-devil-wears-prada-franchise-surpasses-1-billion-usd-worldwide-box-office&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/image-cdn.hypb.st\/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2026%2F06%2F16%2Ftwanne-hathaway-meryl-streep-emily-blunt-stanley-tucci-The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Franchise-Surpasses-1-Billion-USD-Worldwide-Box-Office.jpg?w=1080&amp;cbr=1&amp;q=90&amp;fit=max&#8221;] Entertainment 20 Hrs ago 267 Views 0\u00a0Comments Comments Save Text By Sophie Caraan Source Deadline Editor Assistant Thu Tran Share this article \u00a9 2026 20th Century Studios Entertainment 20 Hrs ago 267 Views 0\u00a0Comments Comments Save Summary The Devil Wears Prada franchise has crossed $1 billion USD at the global box office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,39],"class_list":["post-1994127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-hypebeast-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}