Meryl Streep Drives Devil Wears Prada 2 Near Me Past $326.5M Original
devil wears prada 2 near me is about to overtake the original film’s $326.5 million global total, with the sequel sitting at $324 million worldwide through yesterday. The gap is small enough that the franchise’s box office story is now being decided in real time, not in long-range projections.
David Frankel’s sequel has already pulled in $101.8 million in North America and $222.2 million abroad, a split that has pushed the film well past the pace of the 2006 release. By Sunday morning, the two-film franchise will be well past $700 million worldwide.
Frankel’s return
David Frankel reteamed with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci on the sequel, and the numbers show that audience interest did not stop with the first film’s cult status. The sequel is now functioning like a broad commercial release rather than a nostalgia exercise, with overseas business doing a heavy share of the work.
The 100% offshore footprint means every dollar in the overseas total is coming from international markets, not from any overlap with North America. That has turned the film into a cleaner test of global appetite than many Hollywood titles, and the result is one of the stronger foreign runs of the year.
Italy leads overseas
Italy is the leading offshore territory at $22.2 million, with the UK at $21.6 million, Brazil at $16.6 million and Mexico at $15.9 million. Japan has reached $13.1 million, Australia $12.9 million, Germany $11.7 million and China $11.6 million, while France is near $11 million.
Korea is near $7 million, Spain is at $6.4 million and Argentina is at $4.3 million. Milan makes a big cameo in the movie, and that detail appears to be echoing in a market where Italy is rarely the No. 1 territory for a Hollywood release.
North America race
The sequel’s second weekend is running neck-and-neck with New Line’s Mortal Kombat II for No. 1 in North America, with each title around $42 million. Devil Wears Prada 2’s domestic cume through ten days will reach $143.8 million after the second weekend, keeping the film on a path that is unusual for a sequel built around an adult-skewing fashion brand.
The duel for the top spot in North America goes down to Mother’s Day, but the larger takeaway is already clear: this is a sequel with a stronger international footprint than the original and a box office trajectory that has already moved the franchise from a successful legacy property to a $700 million-plus business.
