Buried in the news that Disney hasdelayed the release datesfor bothAvengers: DoomsdayandAvengers: Secret Warsfrom their planned first weekend of May releases to December 2026 and 2027, respectively, was the tidbit thatThe Devil Wears Prada 2has been tasked with kicking off next year’s summer movie season. Initially released in June 2006,The Devil Wears Pradawas a box office and critical hit. It was a career-defining movie for stars likeAnne Hathaway,Emily Blunt, andStanley Tucci, and also redefinedMeryl Streep’s career. Disney and 20th Century Pictures are now counting on the movie’s forthcoming sequel to kick off Summer 2026 instead of a Marvel movie.
Deadlinereports thatThe Devil Wears Prada 2will open in theaters on August 06, 2025. This was the original release date that Disney had planned forAvengers: Doomsdayprior to delaying the film to June 08, 2025. While Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt werereported to be returning for the sequel, no official news has been made.
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Why ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Kicks Off The Summer Movie Season
Since the release ofSpider-Manin 2002,a movie based on a Marvel Comichas typically kicked off the summer movie season with the first weekend of May for decades now. Ever sinceSpider-Man 3hit theaters in 2007, the first weekend of May every year has featured a Marvel release — untilAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers: Endgamewere bumped up to the last week of April. The COVID-19 pandemic kept Marvel out of the 2020 and 2021 first weekends of May, while the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes forced Marvel Studios to drop their planned June 07, 2025, release date, whichThe Fall Guytook. However,The Fall Guyfailed to capture the Marvel movie excitement that kicks off the summer movie season and had a disappointing opening weekend (butlater found success on streaming).
The Devil Wears Prada 2might seem like an odd fit on the surface to take a highly coveted start of summer release date, but it does have a few key factors working in its favor. One is that it is a legacy sequel to a popular film that will becelebrating its twentieth anniversarywhen the sequel opens, meaning it can cash in on audience nostalgia. The other is that it will open the week before Mother’s Day, givingThe Devil Wears Prada 2a solid two weeks to attract audiences.
However,The Devil Wears Prada 2now opens two weeks beforeVerity, an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover bookthat happens to star the originalThe Devil Wears Pradalead, Anne Hathaway. There is no word on if Hathaway will reprise her role as Annie inThe Devil Wears Prada 2(which she said wasnever going to happen), but with the film likely being fast-tracked into production, it’s unclear if she’d be able to fit both films into her schedule. If she could, that would be great, but if not, it will no doubt feel weird to see Anne Hathaway competing against the sequel to one of her career-defining films at the box office.
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