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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles, with Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Simone Ashley, and Kenneth Branagh joining as new additions.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2: A Sturdy, Satisfying Sequel That Resists Simple Nostalgia – TheWire.in (TheWire.in · May 01, 2026)
The Devil Wears Prada 2: A Sturdy, Satisfying Sequel That Resists Simple Nostalgia TheWire.inKaran Johar reviews The Devil Wears Prada 2, says the sequel speaks of our times: ‘Miranda Priestly is more vulnerable’ | Bollywood Hindustan TimesAll The Iconic Blink-And-Miss Cameos In The Devil Wears Prada 2 NDTV
New movies to watch this weekend: See 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' in theaters, rent 'Hoppers,' stream 'Wuthering Heights' on HBO Max – Yahoo (Yahoo · May 01, 2026)
New movies to watch this weekend: See 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' in theaters, rent 'Hoppers,' stream 'Wuthering Heights' on HBO Max Yahoo
Meryl Streep calls Lady Gaga ‘divine’ after her standout cameo in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' – The Times of India (The Times of India · May 03, 2026)
Meryl Streep calls Lady Gaga ‘divine’ after her standout cameo in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' The Times of India
The Devil Wears Prada 2 North America Box Office: Opening Day Alone Beats Original’s 3-Day Weekend – IMDb (IMDb · May 03, 2026)
The Devil Wears Prada 2 North America Box Office: Opening Day Alone Beats Original’s 3-Day Weekend IMDb
This actor admits to being the worst-dressed character in the history of The Devil Wears Prada universe | Hollywood – Hindustan Times (Hindustan Times · May 02, 2026)
This actor admits to being the worst-dressed character in the history of The Devil Wears Prada universe | Hollywood Hindustan Times
‘It’s So Boring’ Meryl Streep Takes Dig At Marvel-Style Films Amid Devil Wears Prada 2 Release – iDiva (iDiva · May 02, 2026)
‘It’s So Boring’ Meryl Streep Takes Dig At Marvel-Style Films Amid Devil Wears Prada 2 Release iDiva
The Devil Wears Prada 2 To Michael: 5 Highest Grossing Hollywood Openers Of 2026 At The Indian Box Office – News18 (News18 · May 03, 2026)
The Devil Wears Prada 2 To Michael: 5 Highest Grossing Hollywood Openers Of 2026 At The Indian Box Office News18
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' controversy: Racism or overreaction? – The Korea Times (The Korea Times · May 02, 2026)
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' controversy: Racism or overreaction?

Plot

Two decades after leaving her position as an assistant at Runway magazine, Andrea "Andy" Sachs has become a respected reporter in New York. However, her entire newsroom is abruptly laid off by text during an awards gala. Andy lucks into a job with her old boss at Runway, Miranda Priestly, who is under fire for failing to vet a puff piece about a brand that uses sweatshop labor.

To improve the magazine's respectability, Miranda's boss Irv forces her to hire Andy as the features editor. Miranda resents the intrusion. An uncharacteristically listless Miranda has trouble navigating modern fashion media.

Although some of her tyrannical office behaviors remain, HR complaints have blunted her imperiousness. Miranda's right-hand man Nigel explains that nobody reads Runway's print edition anymore. To pay the bills, the once-perfectionist Miranda has to embrace online clickbait and cheaply-made short-form content.

Andy writes serious articles, but few people read them. Meanwhile, she finds a new boyfriend, Peter. After the sweatshop scandal, Miranda tries to win back her advertisers' trust.

One key advertiser is Dior, which employs Andy's former co-worker Emily. During a crucial negotiation, Andy senses tension between Emily and Miranda. Emily leverages the controversy over the Runway puff piece to secure her own Runway puff piece, which Miranda assigns to Andy.

During the interview, Emily and Andy argue about how modern fashion raises prices and shuts out middle-class consumers. Andy rescues her standing at Runway by brokering a coveted interview with Sasha Barnes, the wealthy divorcee of a Silicon Valley billionaire. Irv promises to promote Miranda to the head of global content for his entire media company, but dies before making the promotion official.

His son Jay, who lacks Irv's sentimental attachment to either fashion or Runway, puts Miranda's promotion on hold, and hires management consultants to recommend cost cuts. Miranda is forced to fly economy class. To Andy's surprise, Miranda bears with it.

Andy jeopardizes her relationship with Peter when she unintentionally insults his job while fretting she may lose her own position. During Milan Fashion Week, Nigel throws what may be his last big Runway gala, starring Lady Gaga. Andy devises a plan to save Runway by convincing a wealthy patron to buy it from Jay.

The patron is Benji, Sasha's ex-husband and Emily’s current boyfriend. When Andy and Emily reveal the plan, Miranda is furious, as she knows Emily would only buy Runway to fire her. Miranda admits that she pushed Emily out of fashion journalism because Emily lacks creative vision.

At the gala dinner, Benji tells Miranda of his vision of an AI-driven world, which unsettles Miranda. To prevent Benji and Emily from destroying Runway, Miranda directs Andy to find a competing buyer. Andy convinces Sasha to buy not just Runway but its entire parent company as well, and Jay accepts her offer, pulling out of his deal with Benji.

Miranda realizes she has taken Nigel for granted over the years. To make amends, she invites him to deliver the gala's keynote speech. After the Runway staff return to New York, Sasha gives Miranda the promotion Irv promised her.

Andy reconciles with Peter and a defeated Emily. Nigel reveals he, not Irv, brought Andy back to Runway, as he has always liked her. Miranda admits to Andy that the latter's idealism inspired her to fight back.

She gives Andy a nicer office and returns to work with a renewed imperiousness.

Production

Development

In 2013, Lauren Weisberger wrote and published Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, a sequel to her 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada which had been adapted into the 2006 film. Starring cast members Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway were not eager to do a sequel, with Streep reportedly saying that she was not interested, and Hathaway stating she would like to work with the same people on "something totally different". In July 2024, it was reported that Walt Disney Studios, the parent division of 20th Century Studios, was interested in developing a sequel.

Negotiations began that month with Aline Brosh McKenna returning to write the screenplay, and Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles from the first film.

Casting and filming

Principal photography began on June 30, 2025, with David Frankel again directing, and Kenneth Branagh joining the cast. In July, it was announced that Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman were reprising their roles, with Simone Ashley, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B. J.

Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Rachel Bloom and Patrick Brammall as new additions to the cast. Streep, Hathaway and Tucci were spotted to be filming in Manhattan during the week of July 21, 2025. Blunt was spotted for the first time a week later.

Brammel and Hathaway were spotted filming a scene together on August 5. Sydney Sweeney was spotted on set with Blunt on August 7. An important airport scene was shot at Newark on September 10, 2025.

Tucci and Streep filmed at the Dolce & Gabbana's Milan Fashion Week show on September 27. Filming took place in Milan, Italy, from October 6 to 18. In October, Donatella Versace was seen on set filming a cameo appearance, while Lady Gaga was announced to be having a role in the film, Ashley finished filming her scenes on October 17, 2025.

Filming officially wrapped on October 20, 2025. By November 2025, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Conrad Ricamora and Calum Harper were also announced to have been cast.

In April 2026, it was revealed that Sweeney, who was meant to cameo as herself, was cut from the finished film. Some of the locations used attracted crowds of onlookers when social media reported the movie was being filmed there, which had not happened while the original was being filmed. According to production designer Jess Gonchor, who had been in that role for the original, it was "a mob scene" at the American Museum of Natural History, again standing in for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Fortunately, he says, the production needed a crowd for the scene, so it helped. A large crowd in the Meatpacking District also watched the filming of the scene where Andy boards the Hampton Jitney. "The shoot was the middle of summer and it was pretty special to see people embracing the movie like that. It never disrupted the filming but it did make everyone feel like the Beatles."

Sets and locations

Jess Gonchor, the production designer for the original film, returned for the sequel. The Runway offices were again sets built at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, but now, he told Architectural Digest, they were eight times larger, showing the space the original was meant only to suggest. "With the new offices, we’re creating more of a visual story. We opened the whole thing up so it wasn't just about Miranda and the assistants." The former McGraw-Hill building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas served, again, as the exterior and lobby of the Elias-Clark building.

A large room was dressed as the cafeteria. "Saying the words 'The Devil Wears Prada' opened a lot of doors for us this time around and got us access into places we hadn't been able to before" Gonchor said. In New York that meant the production was allowed to film at the Dior boutique at 57th Street and Madison Avenue before it was opened, as well as the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, which had been closed for six years of renovations. For Emily's office, newly opened space in the Hudson Yards development was used.

Marc Jacobs allowed the production into his fitting rooms. The crew got permission to use the same townhouse that had been Miranda's in the first film. While the interiors of the hotel rooms in Milan were actually in Manhattan's Woolworth Mansion, many other scenes for that part of the movie used Italian locations.

The Palazzo Parigi & Grand Spa Milano, where the cast stayed while shooting, was used for the exterior and lobby, leading Tucci and Theroux to have martinis there between scenes. Lady Gaga's performance was originally planned for the Piazza del Duomo, but was moved to the Accademia di Brera to prevent word of Lady Gaga's appearance from spreading. The dinner scene in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie was actually filmed on a set built to three-quarters scale, including a hand-painted replication of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, by a team of craftsmen led by a woman who manages set design for a Roman opera house.

Since they were not allowed to film the real painting, "we had to really study that thing", Gonchor says. On several private tours, "we were allowed to take our time and figure out how we wanted to replicate it—just myself and a couple other people, no crowds. It was a really special thing to get to do." After a lengthy boat tour of Lake Como, Gonchor chose Villa del Balbiano as Benjy's villa. "[W]e knew that Emily and Benji would arrive by boat, and we also wanted viewers to see the house from the lake, too, so that they were really brought into this lavish environment.

Marketing

The first teaser trailer was released on November 12, 2025. It was reportedly the most-viewed comedy trailer in 15 years, with 181.5 million views in its first 24 hours alone. The film's color grading and lighting—as presented in the trailer—sparked numerous comments on social media and in the press, lamenting the widespread adoption of the "Netflix look" across the film industry (standardized colors, loss of contrast, resulting in a smooth and flat visual rendering).

The film's first full trailer, released on February 1, 2026, recorded 222 million views within its first 24 hours, which 20th Century Studios described as the most-viewed trailer in the studio's history. In April 2026, Anna Wintour, the former editor-in-chief of Vogue and whom Streep's character Miranda Priestly is purportedly based on, appeared on the cover of the magazine alongside the actress. Later that month, Streep and Hathaway traveled to South Korea to promote the film, and participated in an interview with singer Jang Won-young.

Music

The second trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 included a preview of "Runway", an original song performed by Lady Gaga and Doechii. The track, which shares its title with the fictional magazine led by Miranda Priestly (Streep), featured a house-pop style and accompanied the trailer. The song was released as a single on April 9, 2026.

There is also a scores only soundtrack by the composer Theodore Shapiro, featuring 20 tracks and totaling 39 minutes.

Release

The Devil Wears Prada 2 had its premiere at the Lincoln Center in New York City on April 20, 2026, with the event being live-streamed on Disney+ and Hulu. Another premiere was held on two days later in London. The film premiered in Tokyo at Roppongi Hills on April 24.

The film was released in theaters in the United States on May 1, 2026.

Reception

Box office

As of May 2, 2026, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has grossed $33 million in the United States and Canada, and $82 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $115 million. In the United States and Canada, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is projected to gross $75–80 million from 4,150 theaters, with some estimates going as high as $100 million. The film made $10 million in Thursday previews.

Internationally, the film is projected to debut to around $100 million from 35 countries. It made $40.5 million on its first day of release.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 226 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Meryl Streep still wears Miranda Priestly like a finely-tailored suit in this sinfully enjoyable sequel, which is dressed to the nines in off-the-rack wish fulfillment and some trenchant observations about the state of modern media." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale, up from the first film’s "B".

Justin Chang of The New Yorker wrote that the film is "…selling a truckload of preposterous goods, but it sells them awfully well, with unfeigned assurance, conviction, and the appropriate ratio of cynicism to hope." David Sims of The Atlantic wrote, "It has plenty of breezy fun probing the dilemmas of modern media, without abandoning the glitz that made the original so enduring." Odie Henderson of The Boston Globe wrote, "Miranda is given more depth this time, which softens her just a tad, but it forces the viewer to root for her success. That would bug me, but The Devil Wears Prada 2 successfully gives journalists a bigger villain to hiss at and resent." Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent wrote that the film "…hits painfully home, and perpetual job insecurity is hardly exclusive to the media world. Yet even for those who can’t relate, there’s still plenty of the indulgent, fondant pleasures to take part in." In a negative review, Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times wrote that the film "…gives us a lot to look at, and Hathaway and Blunt in particular are a pleasure, but it’s flat Champagne: maybe worth drinking in a pinch, but unsatisfying." Randy Myers of The Mercury News wrote, "Yes, it is indeed a pleasure to hang out with these characters again, and there are a few good laughs here and there.

But The Devil Wears Prada 2 feels like it came off the rack before it was ready. It feels about as groundbreaking as florals in spring." The Globe & Mail's Jehanna Schneller opined that unlike the original film, The Devil Wears Prada 2 "has zero idea what it's about", in particular seeing its social commentary as soft and inconsistent.

Allegations of anti-Asian racism

On April 16, 2026, 20th Century Studios released a promotional clip for the film on its official YouTube channel, featuring Hathaway's character Andy alongside her Asian assistant, Jin Chao, portrayed by Chinese-American actress Helen J. Shen. Shen's character drew criticism for its alleged use of racist tropes, as online observers noted that the character’s name bore phonetic resemblance to "ching chong", a racial slur historically used to mock the Chinese language and people.

Critics further observed that the character was portrayed wearing comparatively dowdy clothing and glasses, in contrast to other characters, and was shown reciting her academic achievements, which they interpreted as reinforcing the "nerdy bookworm" stereotype often associated with Asian individuals. The Asian American Foundation said "[it's] unfortunate that offensive stereotypes continue to color how Asian American communities are perceived today, whether spread intentionally or not". According to the South China Morning Post, the character's name was initially mistakenly reported as "Chin Chou", which further resembled the pronunciation of the racial slur and contributed to its widespread circulation on social media.

The controversy sparked online backlash and debate across mainland China, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, with calls to boycott the film spreading on the Chinese internet. Responding to the controversy, McKenna said that Jin Chao was named after her childhood friend and is a "very dimensional character", adding that she is her "love letter to all the wonderful Gen Z assistants [she's] had who are so enterprising and intelligent".