‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Puts Disney $2B+ WW, ‘Mortal Kombat II’ $63M WW

As expected, 20th Century Studio’s Devil Wears Prada 2 was the fashion supreme at the worldwide weekend box office with a second frame of $118.8M ($43M domestic, a sexy hold of -44%, and $75.8M international in 51 territories, a -46% hold), taking its running global cume to $433.2M ($144.8M stateside, $288.4M abroad), and sending Disney past the $2 billion global mark. The Mouse House becomes the first major motion picture studio to cross that threshold year to date, their other hits including Hoppers ($371.6M), Send Help ($94M WW) and the carryover success of last year’s Avatar: Fire & Ash and Zootopia 2. We told you on Friday that the David Frankel directed Devil Wears Prada 2 already surpassed the filmmaker’s original 2006 title’s global lifetime cume of $326.5M.

Devil 2 was the No. 1 non-local movie this past weekend in Germany ($15.9M cume), Italy ($28.2M sequel’s second highest territory), UK (now the top territory with $28.5M cume), Australia ($18.5M), Japan ($16.8M), Korea ($8.3M), Brazil ($22M third highest) and Mexico ($20.1M) as well as Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Israel, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine,  Hong Kong, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Argentina ($5.8M), Central America, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile. France is up to $14.6M, China is at $13M while Spain’s running total is $8.3M.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is already the #1  (non-local) release of 2026 to date in Italy and Brazil as well as Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lebanon and Slovakia.

Note since we posted domestic last night, the majors have taken their North American weekend estimates higher on account of Mother’s Day. We’ll see what holds.

Michael as we told you moonwalked past the half billion mark, it’s updated global cume at $577M ($240.4M domestic, $336.88M overseas) after a $95M third weekend ($36.5M domestic, great -32% hold, $58.5M overseas, awesome -33%). The movie continues to pace ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody at the same point in time including and excluding China. As we told you, the Graham King production already outstripped the domestic of the producer’s Bohemian Rhapsody ($216.7M).

Some top market shoutouts for the Antoine Fuqua directed movie include UK with a third weekend of $7.5M and running cume near $46M.

France where the movie is still No. 1 with $7.2M and garnering +61% more admissions than No.2 ranked Devil Wears Prada 2 on Saturday. Cume is $30.5M. Also still No. 1 is Spain with $3.2M and a running near $19M cume and Netherlands with $1.5M weekend and a $7.8M cume.

Germany’s third weekend was $4.2M with a running total of $19.6M, while Australia did $3.9M and a $19.1M cume and Brazil with $3.7M and a $20.8M cume; note Michael has overtaken the lifetime of Oppenheimer there.

Coming in lighter, but higher than its previous 2021 Covid impacted installment, is New Line/Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat II with $63M worldwide. Warners believes the movie can hit a $40M domestic opening while overseas is pegged at $23M (under the $30M that was expected) in 78 territories on 31K screens. The movie cost $80M production before marketing. After that record-breaking viewed red band trailer last year, and tracking’s bullish $50M outlook, this is slightly upsetting. In the same breath, no spilt milk moving it to mid-May from last year’s October. The sequel is part of a summer box office momentum (in North America all titles grossed $162.1M per Comscore, +89% from a year ago). But duly note when you have a big marketing launch with an asset like that red-band trailer last year, telling fans that the sequel was destined to open in mid-October 2025, and then you change it up on them, there’s a whole re-calibration and re-introduction that goes on in the campaign to re-engage fans, and that cost bucks. The sequel will soon surpass the lifetime of the 2021 movie ($84.4M WW) which had a theatrical day-and-date release stateside with HBO Max as part of Warners’ pandemic project popcorn.

In Europe, Middle East and Africa, the sequel came in more than the double the results of the first film (again, Covid).

UK led with $2.2M, followed by Mexico with $1.7M, Australia with $1.6M, China $1.4M and Brazil $1.4M. Through this is an R-rated fanboy IP (based on the Midway videogame), a conceivable comp is Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 which was also based on a videogame, though PG-13 and when you juxtapose the two, Mortal Kombat II opened under Freddy’s 2 which had debuts of $4.3M in UK, $2.8M Spain, $1.8M in France and Germany, $6.4M start in Mexico, and $3M in Brazil (also, keep in mind, spooky movies and family fare quite well in Latin America).

Other territories grosses for Mortal Kombat II are $945K in France, $841K in Indonesia, $647K in Argentina, $644K in Spain, $640K in India, $625K in UAE and $598K in Germany.

Upcoming territories are Hong Kong on May 14 and Japan on June 5.

Amazon/MGM Studios/Working Title’s $75M feature family comedy The Sheep Detectives came in with a global start of $28M (studio is seeing a $15.9M North American opening with $12.1M overseas from 75 territories, a 70% offshore footprint).

Breakdown of Sheep Detectives:

Later releasing markets include Germany, Austria, China, Indonesia and Thailand which open next weekend and Malaysia on 27 May. 

Paramount’s Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard & Soft concert movie opened to $20.1M worldwide ($7.5M domestic, $12.6M overseas in 56 markets, a 99% offshore footprint). 3D drove 86% of the overseas B.O. and 88% of the domestic B.O. Best ranked opening for the concert pic was Sweden, where it debuted to No. 2 with $287K while the pic’s top grossing territory was UK with $2.3M, opening in 5th place at 578 sites. It would have been interesting to see what this movie could do on a different date, closer to the end of her 2025 tour (or even sandwiched between 2024-2025 tour) with the full fire breathing power of Imax and sans any fanboy wide entry in the marketplace.

Eilish was debuted to No. 3 in Germany ($1.7M including paid previews at 446 locations), France ($1.7M at 275 sites), Netherlands ($497K at 116 locations), Denmark ($228K at 72 sites), Czech ($213K at 147 sites), Norway ($182K at 87 locations) and Finland ($165k at 73 sites).

She opened in 4th in Australia ($769K at 230 locations), Brazil ($379K at 270 sites), Italy ($366K at 215 locations), Belgium ($317K at 47 locations), and Poland ($290K at 153 sites).

She was No. 5 in Mexico ($651K at 530 sites), Austria ($174K at 62 locations) and Portugal ($136K at 45 sites) while in Spain Eilish opened to No. 7 ($260K at 181 locations) and No. 14 in Japan with $108K at 10 theaters.

Premium Large Format screens represented 26% of the pic’s North American box office, including 16% from Dolby screens.