The Devil Wears Prada 2 Holds the Top Spot While Mortal Kombat II Makes Its Entrance

Miranda Priestly is not done with you yet. The Devil Wears Prada 2 held the No. 1 spot on domestic box office charts this past weekend despite three major new releases, including the video game adaptation Mortal Kombat II. The sequel added another $43 million from North American theaters, on Mother's Day weekend, of all things, while a bloody interdimensional tournament tried and failed to dethrone it. Alas, Shao Kahn has better luck with Earthrealm.

The Devil Wears Prada 2

The sequel added $43 million from 4,200 North American theaters, declining just 44% from its debut, boosting its domestic tally to $144.8 million. That number alone would already be a respectable theatrical run for a lot of films. This one is barely two weekends old. Meanwhile, the star-studded comedy has collected $288.4 million internationally for a global total of $433 million, ticket sales that are above the entire lifetime haul of 2006's The Devil Wears Prada, which generated $326 million, not adjusted for inflation.

So, Miranda has already lapped herself.

The sequel brings back the original director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, along with the full original cast. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all return, picking up two decades later as Hathaway's Andy Sachs comes back to Runway magazine as a features editor under Streep's all-powerful Miranda Priestly. The film carries a PG-13 rating.

Reviews were mixed, but audiences were more receptive, awarding it an "A-" grade on CinemaScore exit polls. Nearly 75% of opening weekend crowds were women. The Mother's Day timing was, clearly, not an accident. Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends for Comscore, called the release date "perfect," saying it could be "the new blueprint for how to start a summer."

Overseas, the film's biggest market through two weekends is a tie at the top. The UK leads with $28.5 million, tied with Italy at $28.2 million, followed by Brazil at $22 million. Those UK figures are even more striking in context: The Devil Wears Prada 2 scored a £9.3 million opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office alone, giving it 85% of the entire original film's UK theatrical total after just one weekend. Screen Daily reported the sequel took a £12,785 per-screen average from 729 cinemas in that first frame, the second-biggest opening of 2026 in the UK market. By this point, it has already passed £21 million across the territory.

The film was produced for roughly $100 million, according to Variety. That budget is looking very comfortable right now.

Mortal Kombat II

Not a flop. Just not Miranda Priestly.

Mortal Kombat II launched to $40 million from 3,503 venues, the best opening for any film in the franchise's theatrical history. The first Mortal Kombat opened to $23 million in 2021, though that came with the significant asterisk of being released simultaneously on HBO Max during Warner Bros.' ill-fated year-long experiment. So an apples-to-apples comparison was always going to be tricky. What's clear is that this one landed with actual theatrical enthusiasm.

Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, the film stars returning cast members alongside new additions Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, and Tati Gabrielle. Urban plays Johnny Cage, a fading action movie star past his prime who is forcibly recruited into the interdimensional Mortal Kombat tournament against his will. Rudolph plays Kitana, daughter of a fallen king murdered by the tyrant Shao Kahn, played by Martyn Ford, who raises her as his own weapon.

The film powered to $63 million globally, including a softer-than-expected $23 million overseas. Critics and audiences were mixed, landing it a 65% Rotten Tomatoes average and a "B" CinemaScore, lower than the prior installment's B+. That said, the film recouped its $80 million production budget in its global opening weekend.

Rudolph and Urban drew strong notices from the fan press, with reviewers praising the new additions as a significant upgrade over Mortal Kombat's original entry point character. Josh Lawson returns as the perpetually undead Kano and, by all accounts, steals every scene he's in. A third film is already in development.

The Weekend at Large

This Mother's Day frame was impressively up 88% from the same period in 2025, when Marvel's Thunderbolts, Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and A Minecraft Movie were leading the charts. The overall box office is currently trending 16% ahead of last year according to Comscore, which is the kind of number theater chains love to quote.

Elsewhere, Lionsgate's Michael held steady in third place. The Michael Jackson biopic pulled $36.5 million in its third weekend, a scant 33% drop, for a domestic total of $240.4 million and a massive $577 million globally, outpacing Bohemian Rhapsody to become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time in North America.

Rounding out the top five: Hugh Jackman's The Sheep Detectives at $16 million in fourth place, and Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft at No. 5 with $7.5 million.

The summer box office has officially arrived. We'll keep you posted on updates about The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Mortal Kombat II as both projects develop.