Behold, summer is officially here with two movies that are slaying around the globe. 20th Century Studios/Disney’s opener this weekend The Devil Wears Prada 2 currently counts $114.6M global through yesterday. Remember, we said the pic could open to $180M WW by tomorrow.
Of that, international is $82.1M so far from 51 markets while North America has delivered $32.5M through yesterday, plus previews. Friday’s overseas total was $27.5M alone. Keep in mind it was Labor Day for most in Europe and Latin America. The David Frankel-directed sequel is No. 1 in nearly all global markets except for Netherlands, South Africa, Bolivia and Ecuador. Japan opened to No. 1 yesterday which also doubled as the highest MPA opening day YTD. The sequel had the second highest opening day YTD in India (Disney didn’t provide gross figures yet for the latter two territories).
Per Disney, the sequel posted the highest opening day YTD in Brazil, Italy, Japan (non-local), Korea and Australia as well as Belgium, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, New Zealand, Taiwan and the Philippines.
Italy is leading in terms of the sequel’s offshore territories with $9.7M. The pic reps 78% of the weekend’s marketshare with its opening also Disney’s 5th highest of all-time in the country.
Brazil counts $6.6M where the movie is commanding 72% marketshare.
Mexico with $6.3M so far repped the second highest opening day YTD on Thursday.
Germany with $4.9M to date is commanding 50% of the weekend’s marketshare.
China stands at $4.9M since opening on Thursday, still in the No. 1 spot. Pic’s first day that was 55% ahead of Michael‘s last weekend. Pic is commanding a 62% marketshare.
France counts a $4.6M running total. Pic’s Wednesday was the third highest opening day YTD.
The UK opened on Friday with $4M and saw the second-highest opening day of 2026 with a strong 57% marketshare. Poland and Turkey also posted the highest opening days of the year.
Australia stands at $4.5M with 62% marketshare. Pic’s Thursday opening was the highest YTD.
Korea has $2.8M in the bank so far. The sequel opened there on Wednesday where it posted, yes, the highest so far YTD. Social scores are strong with Naver 9.43 and CGV at 93%.
Spain has $2.5M and counting. Pic’s Thursday opening day repped the third highest so far this year.
We told you yesterday that Lionsgate’s Michael became the second-highest grossing musical biopic of all-time at $300M, surpassing Elvis and behind Bohemian Rhapsody ($911M). By the end of this weekend though it will boogey higher with a running foreign cume of $232.5M through Sunday plus another $180.8M from North American for a grand running worldwide cume of $413.3M. Universal, as we told you, is releasing the biopic overseas sans Japan which gets released later by Kino and Lionsgate.
We’ll have more updates for you tomorrow.