Prada 2 Sells Through, Kombat Mortal - Weeks 2-3

Mother’s Day Weekend offered something for all mothers at the theater: famous singer bio-pics, fashion forward comedies, investigative sheep, concert movies, and blood soaked fatalities. What better way to tell mom you love them!

The Devil Wears Prada 2 continued strong at the box-office with a $41.6 million second weekend and only a 45% drop. A steeper drop occurred on the weekend people don’t pretend to care about their parents as it dropped 57% in Week 3 with only $17.9 million. The long-awaited sequel has certainly proved successful, however, with over $175 million total so far and topping $200 million looks like a sure thing. 

Mortal Kombat took the stage for $38 million in its opening weekend and then quickly went Game Over in its second weekend. A 65% drop with $13.6 million means this movie will not be in the arcade for long. 

It will soon have company in the garbage bin, though. Billie Ellish was only allowed to hit people Hard & Soft in 3D for one weekend before collapsing by 87% in its second weekend. Don’t worry, she’s going to be fine. She’s not the one who asked her son, “Hey, what are the odds she sings No Time to Die in her concert film?” before being laughed at repeatedly. A guy can dream, can’t he? 

Meanwhile, The Sheep Detectives found the culprit for who melted my heart and it was them. While it won’t be a titan at the box-office with weekends of $15 and $9 million, I’d certainly watch all 12 seasons of Baaaa, She Wrote if they turned this into a series. 

During Week 3, we had another horror breakout with Obsession with $17 million that will probably be forgotten by this weekend’s Passengers, and the following week’s Backrooms. I love me some horror, but it’s flooding the marketplace so fast that no one can even find it before it’s gone. I didn’t even have a chance to get to Hokum yet! Crazy. 

Other than that, In The Grey and Is God Is couldn’t even see the light of day with mere $2 million debuts. Maybe Guy Ritchie should think twice about proudly promoting that “Written & Directed” label before his next film. We were already wondering about one of your jobs… Is this really the best time to be expanding?

For those curious, Michael returned to the top-spot of the box-office in its fourth week of release. The quickest Google Search I could find for another film that was able to climb back to 1st four weeks out was the first IT in 2017. Pretty impressive and very rare. They’ll Wanna Be Starting Part Two real soon. 

 

The Top Five If Today Was Labor Day:

#1. The Devil Wears Prada 2 - $175.7 million

#2. Mortal Kombat 2 - $62.2 million

#3. The Sheep Detectives - $29.9 million

#4. Obsession - $17.2 million

#5. Hokum - $15.5 million

Prada 2 Opens The Show - Week 1

 The Summer Blockbuster Pool has usually relied on MCU movies to open with a bang. This year the fireworks started with a lot more style and no sign of bangs anywhere! 

The Devil Wears Prada 2 exploded off the runway with a $76.7 million opening. Almost a $50 million improvement from the original film's debut in 2006. Holy cow, that was the same weekend Superman Returns opened and the summer of Cars, Da Vinci Code, and most importantly, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. Wow, real people were paid real money to come up with that title. Can’t blame AI for that. 

Regardless, this was a huge start for the summer season of 2026 and a huge win for all parties involved. Well, maybe except for Anne Hathaway who still can’t get top billing over Meryl Streep when she’s clearly the lead in these movies and is in virtually every scene. Justice for Andy!  

I could tell you about Hokum, Animal Farm, and Deep Waters, the other films that came out this weekend, but since they barely made $10 million combined, I’m pretty sure no one will be telling about them for long. 

There’s a few new films coming out this weekend (Don’t sleep on the Sheep Detectives!), yet the coast seems clear for Prada 2 to keep many moms smiling over Mother’s Day weekend. Strut your stuff, ladies! 

 

The Top Five If Today Was Labor Day:

#1. The Devil Wears Prada 2 - $76.7 million

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Extra Bonus Section

 

As per the Week 1 tradition, here are my esteemed, extremely well thought-out, and certainly terrible 2026 Summer Movie Pool prognostications. 

The Didn’t Make Its: Masters of the Universe (No Dolph Lungren, No Chance), Disclosure Day (I want it to be good, but Spielberg as summer movie hitmaker? It’s been awhile), Moana (I can’t imagine this will be this year’s Snow White… and yet it feels like that’s in play), and finally Prada 2 and Supergirl (figured both would do well, but just not well enough), which leads us to…

#1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day - The last film opened with $250 million and finished with $800 million. Even with a late July release, this felt like a no-brainer.      

 

#2. Toy Story 5 - A tougher brainer. I’m with many that don’t think this film doesn’t need to exist, but it’s got 30 years of goodwill and plenty of fans young and old who will come out to see Woody & Buzz one more time.       

 

#3. The Odyssey - I feel like this will be a mirror of Oppenheimer. Another $350 million grown-up smash of the summer. And, hey, this one’s based on existing IP :) 

 

#4. Minions & Monsters - 4th of July is basically red, white, blue, and yellow these days. Just pencil in $300 million with any of these movies. 

#5. The Mandalorian and Grogu - The toughest pick for me to put this above Supergirl and Moana. At the end of the day, I figured people just want a fun Star Wars movie to see and take their kids (and grandkids) to. Hopefully, this fits the bill. 

Good luck, everyone!