Box Office Report: Devil Wears Prada, Michael Hit Milestones
Michael on course to be biggest biopic of all time
Box Office reports over the last weekend have placed The Devil Wears Prada 2 and the Michael biopic as milestone smashers and history makers. The former is the comedy-drama sequel by director David Frankel starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt in reprised roles based in the fashion journalist world, and the latter is the Antoine Fuqua-directed musical, drama biopic on the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, as he rises from his family band to become a global solo superstar, starring Jaafar Jackson, Colman Dolmingo, Nia Long and Juliano Valdi.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 has now grossed $433 million worldwide against a $100 million budget and topped on an opening weekend gross of $76 million. The film is currently the fifth-highest-grossing feature released in 2026, sitting between Michael and the Pixar animation Hoppers. This means it has smashed its predecessor, the original 2006 film, which took home $326 million globally from a budget of $35,000,000, with an opening earnings of $27 million, making it the 12th highest-grossing 2006 release between Over the Hedge and The Pursuit of Happiness.
There is a $107 million difference between the two films.
Meanwhile, Fuqua’s Michael recently broke records by beating Bryan Singer’s Queen-based biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, as “best opening weekend seen by a musical biopic in the UK..” to a weekend gross of “£11.6 million ($15 million) which is £5.2 million ($7.02 million) more than Bohemian Rhapsody’s UK opening gross of £6.4 million ($8.64 million),” as of the 1st May. Now, after a week and a half, Michael has grossed a domestic earnings of $240 million from a budget of $155 million, becoming the highest-grossing musical biopic in North America as it beats Bohemian Rhapsody’s domestic gross of $216.7 million by $24 million.
Michael’s current worldwide box office comes to $577 million, meaning it will have to earn around $334 million more to match Bohemian Rhapsody’s $911 million global takings.
In other box office news, Simon McQuoid’s martial arts, fantasy sequel, Mortal Kombat II, based on the original video games of the same name, has grossed a worldwide total of $63 million since its 8th May release.
The top highest-grossing film of 2026 still stands as The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at a worldwide earnings of $941 million.
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