Devil Wears Prada 2 Opens to $200M, Blunt Steals Show
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- The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened with projections of over $200 million in its first week, reuniting Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci twenty years after the original, with the reviewer calling it one of the few Hollywood sequels that measures up.
- Runway magazine is depicted as on "life support," with Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigating social-first content, thinning ad revenue, and a September issue "so thin you could floss with it" — a plotline the reviewer says will make any current or former journalist cringe with recognition.
- Andy Sachs (Hathaway) is fired from her government-exposé job at the New York Vanguard and brought back to Runway to manage a sweatshop PR crisis, while her romantic subplot with an Australian architect is described as "tacked-on."
- Emily Blunt steals the show with one-liners — including "It's not a whisper, it's a cry for help" and "Remember when magazines were a thing?" — while her plot to seize Runway via her tech-oligarch boyfriend ends with Miranda's takedown: "You're not a visionary, you're a vendor."
- Lady Gaga appears in a third-act cameo where Nigel and Miranda blackmail her into performing at a Runway event for free, in a scene that also features cameos from Karl-Anthony Towns, Tina Brown, Law Roach, Marc Jacobs, Heidi Klum, and Donatella Versace in Milan.
- Justin Theroux plays Emily's boyfriend Benji Barnes, described as a "Musk-Bezos composite," while the late publisher's Silicon Valley-coded son pushes to replace editors and models with AI — a storyline the reviewer notes "hits grimly close to home" given media's tech-billionaire ownership.
Why it matters: The sequel banks on nostalgia but uses Runway's decline to comment on the real collapse of print media, with a plotline built around tech billionaires absorbing editorial control and AI threatening creative jobs — a thematic bet that aligns the film's satire with anxieties its audience already has about their own industry.
