No one dares to say no to Miranda Priestly — not within the editor’s office and not at the box office.
Key Points
- The Devil Wears Prada 2narrowly defeated Mortal Kombat 2 in the weekend’s cinematic competition.
- The fashion-focused follow-up earned $43 million within the country during its second weekend in cinemas, while the fantasy combat movie generated $40 million.
- Next week, both movies will need to compete against a new contender from a perilous genre, as a horror film arrives.Obsession challenges Prada‘s box office dominance.
Raiden could be the deity of lightning and the entire sky. However, he stands no chance against Miranda Priestly.
Mortal Kombat 2fought bravely, but even the energetic excitement of the action sequel’s opening could not match the lasting passion forThe Devil Wears Prada 2, which remained number one for a second weekendbox office.
However, the mid-May showdown between the sequels was a tight contest. The fashion-focused comedy, which took 20 years to arrive, secured its win with $43 million during its second weekend in cinemas, according to box office data from Comscore. Simon McQuoid’s sequel to his 2021 film based on the violent, fantasy combat games, on the other hand, generated $40 million in its opening weekend.
Globally, Prada generated an impressive $118.8 million, bringing the total to $433.2 million with a $100 million investment. This is where the difference between the two becomes more pronounced.Mortal Kombat only earned $63 million worldwide — a good beginning for a movie with an estimated $55 million budget, but not sufficient to maintain the No. 2 position on the global chart, which was taken by a Michael Jackson biopicMichael, which brought in $95 million during the third week, resulting in a total gross of $577.3 million.
The Devil Wears Prada 2His remarkable box office success is a benefit to the distributor.20th Century Studios, which hasn’t had a genuine hit sinceAvatar: Fire and Ash swept the box office in December. It’s also a significant victory for the cast,setting a new recordIn Streep’s remarkable career, the highest performing premiere.
Ranking No. 3 on the local chart this weekend isMichael, which continues to perform well with a $36.5 million haul in its third week. Although it premiered in cinemas amid a wave of controversy, the movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua and featuring Jaafar Jackson, the nephew of the King of Pop, has emerged as one of the year’s top-grossing films, easily surpassing its substantial estimated budget of $200 million.
The other major debut of the weekend was more low-key, but the upbeat mystery comedyThe Sheep Detectives Perhaps the production costs were not low enough to justify its opening weekend earnings of $15.9 million. The film earned an additional $12 million worldwide, but with a reported budget of $75 million—excluding marketing and promotion expenses—Amazon MGM Studios now faces a financial puzzle that the movie’s streaming performance must resolve.
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Elsewhere on the national and international charts, Billie Eilish’s new documentaryBillie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tourmade its debut with $7.5 million in domestic earnings, securing the No. 5 position overall.The Super Mario Galaxy FilmContinues to generate $6.6 million in revenue during its sixth week, resulting in a $412 million domestic total and $941.2 million worldwide. Should Nintendo maintain this performance, they could soon achieve another billion-dollar achievement.
Next week, a movie could find itself in a position to surpriseThe Devil Wears Prada 2her dominance at the box office.
Although it doesn’t feature any prominent actors, popular YouTuber Curry Barker’sObsession has gained not only from a broad promotional effort, but also from enthusiastic word-of-mouth reviews that followed his viral, low-budget 2024 filmMilk & Serial.
Obsession marks a significant investment in the emerging young director by studios Blumhouse and Focus Features, which managed production and distribution, respectively. However, Barker still maintainedObsessionIts estimated budget of a surprisingly low $1 million means the threshold for success should be quite easy to meet.
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