Devil Wears Prada Sequel Crushes Box Office

0:00It's May 2nd, I'm Cory with the story, and this is entertainment and celebrity news today, AI-powered and star driven. Summer box office is firing on all cylinders with Disney's Devawares Prada, two crushing it out the gate. The sequel starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway raked in $33 million on opening day from $4,150. Locations, including $10 million from previews alone, projections now peg the domestic opening weekend at $80.5 million, right in line with Amazon MGM's recent smash project, Hill Mary, and hitting the high end of expectations. It's pulling in crowds of women, especially those over 40 who caught the original back in 2006. Reception stays strong too, with an A-cinema score and rotten tomatoes at 77% from critics, 88% from. Audiences, setting up for a run bigger than last year's Thunderbolt star. Over on Lionsgate's Michael, the biopic is holding tough with $14.4 million on its second Friday,

1:03eyeing a $51 million weekend. That's just a 48% drop from its $97 million debut. These numbers have Michael surpassing 300 million worldwide already and gunning for $400 million by Sunday, making it the second biggest music biopic ever behind Bohemian Rhapsody. Theaters are thriving early this summer and the momentum feels unstoppable.