Two decades after Andy Sachs first stumbled into the marble lobby of Runway magazine, the follow-up that fans spent years wishing for is about to become a couch-and-blanket staple. The Devil Wears Prada 2 begins streaming exclusively on Disney+ and Hulu on July 29, 2026, closing the gap between its splashy theatrical debut and the living rooms where its most devoted audience has been waiting. The film had already slipped onto premium video-on-demand at the end of June, but the July 29 date is the one that matters for the millions of subscribers who prefer to let a movie come to them.
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The numbers explain why the arrival feels like an event rather than a quiet catalog drop. Directed once again by David Frankel, the sequel has pulled in roughly $677 million worldwide since its May 1 opening, splitting that haul between about $219 million in North America and $458 million from international markets. That total makes it the fourth highest-grossing release of 2026 so far, a striking result for a legacy sequel built around a fashion magazine in an era when print itself is fighting for relevance.
Meryl Streep returns as the glacially exacting Miranda Priestly, with Anne Hathaway back as Andy, Emily Blunt reprising the perpetually harried Emily, and Stanley Tucci once more as the wry, warmhearted Nigel. The reunion of that original quartet is the film's center of gravity, and it is the promise most likely to pull lapsed fans toward the play button at the end of the month.
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Why It Matters
The July 29 streaming launch is a case study in how the modern Hollywood release calendar actually works. A tentpole no longer lives or dies on its opening weekend; it moves through a sequence of windows, each engineered to squeeze more value out of the same title. Theatrical exclusivity builds the cultural moment and the box office headline, a brief premium video-on-demand window captures the impatient early adopters willing to pay a rental premium, and the streaming debut finally converts all of that attention into subscriber engagement and retention.
For Disney, folding the sequel into both Disney+ and Hulu is a deliberate bet. The company has spent the past few years knitting those two services closer together, and a broadly beloved, star-driven comedy is exactly the kind of title that keeps casual subscribers from clicking cancel during a slow summer. Placing it on both platforms at once widens the funnel considerably, reaching the family-and-franchise crowd on Disney+ and the more adult, prestige-leaning audience that gravitates to Hulu.
There is a neat irony at the heart of it, too. The movie's plot turns on Miranda Priestly navigating the collapse of traditional magazine publishing while an older-media empire scrambles to stay relevant against nimbler, digital-first rivals. The industry story unfolding around the film — legacy studios racing to keep their streaming platforms indispensable — rhymes almost perfectly with the fictional one on screen.
The Reaction
Critics arrived divided, and they have stayed that way. The sequel currently holds a 77 percent critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes against a warmer 84 percent audience rating, a split that captures the mood precisely. The people who loved the 2006 original tend to be forgiving; the reviewers weighing it as a standalone work are more skeptical.
The admirers argue that Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci slip back into their roles with such ease that the film earns its nostalgia honestly, delivering the sharp banter and couture spectacle that made the first movie a rewatchable comfort. The skeptics counter that a legacy sequel about the fading power of legacy institutions can feel a little too on the nose, and that some of its shine is borrowed rather than freshly made. Newcomers Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Lucy Liu, and Justin Theroux drew particular curiosity, injecting fresh energy into a world audiences already know by heart.
What is not in dispute is that people showed up. A $677 million worldwide gross for a dialogue-driven comedy with no capes, spaceships, or dinosaurs is a genuine outlier in 2026, and it has become a talking point for an industry eager to prove that grown-up entertainment can still fill theaters.
What Comes Next
The immediate horizon is the July 29 drop itself, and the second wave of conversation it will inevitably spark. Streaming debuts have a way of reviving a film's cultural footprint, handing it to the audience that skipped the theatrical run and turning individual scenes into shareable clips. Expect the fashion of Runway magazine, and Miranda Priestly's most quotable barbs, to circulate all over again once the movie is a tap away.
Beyond that, the film's box office strength almost guarantees the question of a third chapter will hang in the air, even if no one connected to the production is committing to anything yet. A sequel that performs like this one buys its makers the luxury of patience. The awards conversation is a quieter subplot; a comedy rarely dominates that race, but veteran performances of this caliber tend to earn at least a mention when the season heats up in the winter.
For now, the practical takeaway is simple. A film that dominated conversation in the spring is about to get a second life on the two services where a huge share of its natural audience already lives, and it lands there just as the summer's theatrical slate quiets down.
Closing Thoughts
There is something fitting about a movie so preoccupied with reinvention arriving on streaming at precisely this moment. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is, at its core, a story about institutions confronting their own obsolescence and deciding whether to adapt or fade, and its journey from multiplex to Disney+ and Hulu is a small, real-world echo of that theme.
Whether you count yourself among the faithful who will press play the moment it lands, or the skeptics who wonder whether the original needed a follow-up at all, the sequel has already made its most persuasive argument at the box office. Come July 29, the only remaining question is whether it holds up on a second, more comfortable viewing — and for a film about the enduring pull of a good story well told, that feels like exactly the right test.
한글 요약
2006년 원작으로 사랑받은 패션 코미디의 속편 악마는 프라다를 입는다 2가 2026년 7월 29일 디즈니플러스와 훌루에서 독점 스트리밍을 시작한다. 데이비드 프랭클 감독이 다시 메가폰을 잡았고, 메릴 스트립(미란다 프리스틀리)·앤 해서웨이(앤디)·에밀리 블런트·스탠리 투치가 모두 복귀했다. 6월 말 프리미엄 VOD로 먼저 공개됐지만, 대다수 구독자가 기다려온 진짜 시점은 이번 스트리밍 공개다.
이 작품은 5월 1일 개봉 이후 전 세계에서 약 6억 7,700만 달러(북미 약 2억 1,900만, 해외 약 4억 5,800만)를 벌어들이며 2026년 흥행 4위에 올랐다. 히어로도 우주선도 없는 대사 중심 코미디로선 이례적인 성적이다. 극장 독점 → 단기 VOD → 스트리밍으로 이어지는 배급 창구 전략의 마지막 단계에 해당하며, 디즈니가 두 플랫폼에 동시 공개하는 것은 여름 비수기 구독 이탈을 막으려는 계산된 선택이다. 인쇄 잡지의 쇠락을 그린 극중 설정이 스트리밍 시대 레거시 미디어의 현실과 겹치는 점도 흥미롭다.
평가는 갈렸다. 로튼토마토 평론가 지수 77%, 관객 지수 84%로, 원작 팬들은 배우들의 완벽한 재결합에 후한 점수를 준 반면 일부 평론가는 '레거시의 소멸'을 다룬 속편이 다소 뻔하다고 봤다. 케네스 브래너·시몬 애슐리·루시 리우·저스틴 서룩스 등 새 얼굴도 합류했다. 7월 29일 공개와 함께 관련 대화가 다시 불붙을 전망이며, 흥행 호조로 3편 제작 가능성도 자연스레 거론되고 있다.