Audiences around the world couldn’t wait to dive back into the designer-studded world of Miranda Priestley as The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global box office take has propelled Disney past the $2 billion mark.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 surpassed expectations at its release on May 1, reaching number one at the box office with $233.6 million globally. It has a 78% Certified Fresh critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes with an 86% audience score.
Deadline reports that the sequel’s second weekend global take of $433.2M — $144.8M domestic, $288.4M international — will keep it on top of the box office, as expected (especially with Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10). However, more importantly, those earnings have pushed Disney to a major milestone: it is now the first studio to earn over $2B at the global box office in 2026.
Other titles contributing to Disney’s total global take are Hoppers ($371.6M), 20th Century Studios’ Send Help ($94M), and carryover from late 2025 blockbuster releases Avatar: Fire & Ash ($1.3B) and Zootopia 2 ($1.7B), which is officially the highest-grossing Hollywood animated film (and one of the top 10 highest-grossing films overall) of all time.
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’
The budget before marketing was about $100 million, which “mostly went to [the cast],” director David Frankel told the New York Times. Tie-in merchandise has run the gamut from Little Words Project bracelets to RE/DONE T-shirts to purse-shaped popcorn buckets. There’s even a “fashion emergency” vending machine at the AMC DINE-in Disney Springs 24 at Walt Disney World.
To mark the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2, crests for stars Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway were added to The Crown & Crest in EPCOT alongside several other new designs.
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