The Devil Wears Prada 2 Holds No. 1 for a Second Weekend, Tops the Original’s Lifetime Gross
Miranda Priestly is not done with you yet. Disney’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 retained the No. 1 spot on domestic box office charts this Mother’s Day weekend, despite three major new releases including the video game adaptation Mortal Kombat II. The sequel didn’t just hold — it quietly rewrote the record books.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt reunion added $43 million from 4,200 North American theaters, declining just 44% from its debut and pushing its North American tally to $144.8 million. Globally, the comedy has now collected $433 million after just two weekends of release — already surpassing the entire lifetime haul of the 2006 original, which generated $326 million. That’s a franchise going from cultural touchstone to flat-out box office juggernaut.
Internationally, the sequel has been especially dominant, generating $288 million from 51 territories. The United Kingdom leads all markets at $28 million, tied with Italy, ahead of Brazil at $22 million and Mexico at $20 million. The UK number deserves its own sentence. On opening weekend alone, The Devil Wears Prada 2 scored £9.3 million at the UK-Ireland box office — the second-biggest opening of 2026 — taking a £12,785 average from 729 cinemas. Including the Monday Bank Holiday, it had already banked £12.2 million, nearly 86% of the first film’s entire UK total. At that rate, it passed the original’s £14.2 million UK lifetime before this second weekend even started. Emily Blunt is British. The UK clearly took that personally.
The strong hold helped push The Walt Disney Company over $2 billion globally for the year, according to CP24. Comscore’s Paul Dergarabedian called the release date strategy near-perfect, telling Variety that “this may be the new blueprint for how to start a summer.” Director David Frankel told The New York Times the sequel’s $100 million budget “mostly went to the cast.” Money well spent, apparently.
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II debuted at No. 2, launching to $40 million from 3,503 venues for a global opening weekend of $63 million, including a softer-than-expected $23 million overseas. The added star power of Karl Urban (The Boys) as series icon Johnny Cage, alongside Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, gave the sequel considerably more mainstream appeal than the 2021 original, which only grossed $84 million worldwide — but that first film launched simultaneously on HBO Max, giving it a built-in excuse.
Mortal Kombat II received a 65% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site’s consensus calling it “a self-aware slugfest” and “the most roundly enjoyable entry in the franchise yet.” CinemaScore came in at a B, slightly below the previous installment’s B+, though PostTrak’s definite recommend sits at a solid 72%. So the critics and audiences at least agree it’s better than it has any right to be, which is about the best Mortal Kombat can hope for.
The overall box office this weekend is up 88% from the same period in 2025, when Thunderbolts, Sinners, and A Minecraft Movie were leading the charts. Alas, none of them brought Meryl Streep.
We’ll keep you posted on updates about The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mortal Kombat II as both projects develop.
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