The Devil Wears Prada 2

Released May 1, 2026, The Devil Wears Prada 2 arrives twenty years after the original and had every reason to be a cynical exercise in nostalgia mining. It is, instead, one of the year's most purely pleasurable crowd-pleasers — a film that understood exactly what its audience wanted to feel and delivered it with considerable style and more genuine wit than anyone had a right to expect from a sequel this long in the making. Director David Frankel — who helmed the original — returns, and the cast reassembles beautifully: Meryl Streep as the incomparable Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway back as Andy, Emily Blunt reprising her role with scene-stealing relish, and Stanley Tucci providing the film's emotional warmth as a grounding presence. The film has earned 77% from Rotten Tomatoes critics — a score that reflects the critical community's inherent skepticism of legacy sequels while acknowledging that the film does what it sets out to do with genuine skill. The 84% audience score is the more instructive number: the audience for whom Miranda Priestly is a genuine cultural icon turned out enthusiastically and left satisfied. With roughly $683 million worldwide as of late June 2026, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has matched Project Hail Mary's gross while working with entirely different commercial mechanics — built on nostalgia, female-audience loyalty, and the irreplaceable currency of Meryl Streep. Streep, notably, also voices the Insect Queen in Hoppers — giving her the unusual distinction of anchoring two top-ten films in the same year's mid-year list. In The Devil Wears Prada 2, she is, as ever, the film's absolute center of gravity: every scene she's in becomes the most important scene in the movie.