In 2003, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to a film adaptation of Weisberger's novel before it was completed for publication. However, the project was not greenlit until Streep was cast in the lead role. Principal photography lasted 57 days, primarily taking place in New York City from October to December 2005. Additional filming also occurred in Paris. After premiering at the LA Film Festival on June 22, 2006, the film was theatrically released in the United States on June 30. The film received positive reviews from critics, with Streep's performance being singled out for acclaim. This earned her many award nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
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For the photo of Andrea with her parents, Hathaway posed with her own mother and David Marshall Grant. The Dengel twins recalled being asked every day for three years straight if the Harry Potter advance copies were real; to their great disappointment they were not and in fact were "all gibberish". They eventually auctioned them for $586 on eBay, along with various clothing used in the film, to benefit Dress for Success, a charity which provides business clothing to help women transition into the workforce.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Production design
In 2006, she starred in David Frankel's comedy film "The Devil Wears Prada", as an assistant to the powerful fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep. Hathaway said that working on the film made her respect the fashion industry a great deal more than she had previously, though she said her personal style was something she "still can't get right". She also stated that she and co-star Emily Blunt got so hungry on their weight-loss regimen for the film it made them cry. To prepare for the role, Hathaway volunteered for a few weeks as an assistant at an auction house.
Anne Hathaway | 2005–2008: Transition to adult roles and greater success
The third was particularly challenging as it uses passing cars and other obstructions to cover Hathaway's changes of outfit. Some scenes were also created in the editing room, such as the reception at the museum, where Livolsi wove B-roll footage in to keep the action flowing.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Editing
Even ten years later, people still quote her lines from the film back to her at least once a week, she says.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cast
Hathaway and Blunt also drew favorable reviews and nominations for their performances. The film grossed over $300 million worldwide, against its $41 million budget, and was the 12th highest-grossing film worldwide in 2006.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Introduction
The film received positive reviews; Roger Ebert called Hathaway "a great beauty [...] who makes a convincing career girl" and Rotten Tomatoes found "Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own". "The Devil Wears Prada" became Hathaway's biggest commercial success to this point, grossing more than $326.5 million worldwide.
Anne Hathaway | 2005–2008: Transition to adult roles and greater success
Anna Wintour attended the film's New York premiere, wearing Prada. Her friend Barbara Amiel reported that she said shortly afterward that the movie would go straight to DVD. But in an interview with Barbara Walters that aired the day the DVD was released, she called the film "really entertaining" and said she appreciated the "decisive" nature of Streep's portrayal. "Anything that makes fashion entertaining and glamorous and interesting is wonderful for our industry. So I was 100 percent behind it." Streep said Wintour was "probably more upset by the book than the film". Wintour's popularity skyrocketed after her portrayal in "The Devil Wears Prada".
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Anna Wintour
"The walk, I'm afraid, is mine," Streep added.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Acting
Streep said she did not base her character in "The Devil Wears Prada" on Anna Wintour, instead saying she was inspired by men she had known previously: "Unfortunately you don't have enough women in power, or at least I don't know them, to copy."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Anna Wintour
"I wanted", she explained, "to see that face without its protective glaze, to glimpse the woman in the businesswoman."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Casting
Its theatrical run continued through December 10, shortly before the DVD release. "The core marketing was definitely to women," Gabler recalls, "but the men didn't resist going to the movie." She felt that male viewers responded favorably to the movie because they sought a glimpse inside fashion, and because Miranda "was enjoyable to watch." The release date helped generate word of mouth when people who had seen it discussed it at holiday gatherings. "They were talking about it, like a summer reading book," said Gabler.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Commercial
In it, instead of Andy reminding Miranda of a guest's name after the sickened Emily cannot, Miranda's husband shows up and makes rude comments to not only his wife but Ravitz, the head of Elias-Clark. Andrea earns a silent "thank you" from Miranda when she helps prevent the confrontation from escalating by diverting Raviz with a question of her own.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Deleted scenes
"The Devil Wears Prada" received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 75% based on 194 reviews, along with an average rating of 6.64/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A rare film that surpasses the quality of its source novel, this "Devil" is a witty expose of New York's fashion scene, with Meryl Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 62 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Critical response
In 2016, around the 10th anniversary of the film's release, "Vanity Fair" did a rundown of some Independence Day weekend movie box results from the previous 15 years, noting how some better-remembered films had been bested by films that have not stood the test of time. It called "Superman Returns"' win over "The Devil Wears Prada" the "most ironic" of these victories. "[T]he degree to which "The Devil Wears Prada" has penetrated pop culture needs no explanation–as does the degree to which "Superman Returns" didn't." The cast's opinions on why the movie has endured differ. Hathaway told "Variety" that she thinks many people relate to Andy's predicament of working for someone who seems impossible to please.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cultural impact and legacy
"It was possible this could be the end of the road for us."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Production
Hoberman, Edelstein's onetime colleague at "The Village Voice", called the movie an improvement on the book and said Streep was "the scariest, most nuanced, funniest movie villainess since Tilda Swinton's nazified White Witch [in 2005's ""]."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Critical response
In 2006, he played Nate Cooper, the boyfriend of Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) in "The Devil Wears Prada". In 2013, he starred in the post-apocalyptic film "Goodbye World" alongside Gaby Hoffmann. It premiered at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival where it received good reviews. The film made its cinematic release in the United States on April 4, 2014.
Adrian Grenier | Acting
The crew were in Paris for only two days, and used only exteriors. Streep did not make the trip.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Paris
Some media outlets allowed their present or former fashion reporters to weigh in on how realistic the movie was. Their responses varied widely. Booth Moore at "Los Angeles Times" chided Field for creating a "fine fashion fantasy with little to do with reality," a world that reflects what outsiders think fashion is like rather than what the industry actually is. Unlike the movie, in her experience fashionistas were less likely to wear makeup and more likely to value edgier dressing styles (that would not include toe rings). "If they want a documentary, they can watch the History Channel", retorted Field.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Depiction of fashion industry
Maslin avoided naming either the magazine where Weisberger actually worked or the woman she allegedly modeled her main character on. The "Times" continued this practice when the film was released. Jennifer Krauss of "Newsday" admitted the book had problems, as any first novel might, but praised it as a "fun, frivolous read".
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Commercial and critical reception
The film version was released on June 30, 2006 by 20th Century Fox. It was produced by Wendy Finerman ("Forrest Gump"), freely adapted for the screen by Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by David Frankel. Anne Hathaway played Andrea, Meryl Streep earned critical praise, a win for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination as Miranda, and Emily Blunt played Emily. Production took place during fall 2005, on location in New York and Paris. Weisberger herself made a very brief non-speaking cameo appearance as the twins' nanny. The film was very successful, taking in over $300 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film for both lead actresses up to that date.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Film adaptation
In 2005, two years after "The Devil Wears Prada", Oppenheimer's "Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief" was published. It painted a similar portrait of the real woman. According to Oppenheimer, Wintour not only declined his requests for an interview but discouraged others from talking to him.
Anna Wintour | Criticism
It was so successful and effective, becoming almost "iconic" (in Finerman's words), that it was used for the actual release poster as well. It became a brand, and was eventually used on every medium related to the film—the tie-in reprinting of the novel and the soundtrack and DVD covers as well. The studio also put together a trailer of scenes and images strictly from the first three minutes of the film, in which Andrea meets Miranda for the first time, to be used at previews and film festivals until they could create a more standard trailer drawing from the whole film.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Pre-release and marketing
Weisberger stated in publicity materials that Priestly's demands are partial fiction and a composite of actual experiences she and her friends had in their first jobs. Some reviewers state that Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of "Vogue", was the inspiration for Priestly. After the film was released, another one of Wintour's assistants was identified as the model for Emily.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Conception
The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. The film adaptation stars Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a powerful fashion magazine editor, and Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a college graduate who goes to New York City and lands a job as Priestly's co-assistant. Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci co-star as co-assistant Emily Charlton and art director Nigel Kipling, respectively. Adrian Grenier, Simon Baker, and Tracie Thoms play key supporting roles.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Introduction
After touring some offices of real fashion magazines, Jess Gonchor gave the "Runway" offices a clean, white look meant to suggest a makeup compact ("the chaste beiges and whites of impervious authority," Denby called it). Miranda's office bears some strong similarities to the real office of Anna Wintour, down to an octagonal mirror on the wall, photographs and a floral arrangement on the desk Gonchor later told "Women's Wear Daily" that he had based the set on a photo of Wintour's office he found online; the similarity led Wintour to have her office redecorated after the movie's release. She even chose separate computer wallpaper to highlight different aspects of Blunt's and Hathaway's character: Paris's Arc de Triomphe on Blunt's suggests her aspirations to accompany Miranda to the shows there, while the floral image on Andy's suggests the natural, unassuming qualities she displays at the outset of her tenure with the magazine.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Production design
The American Film Institute gave the film similar recognition. The film received ample attention from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when its Golden Globe Award nominations were announced in December. The film itself was in the running for Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) and Supporting Actress (for Blunt). Streep later won the Globe for Best Actress (Musical/Comedy).
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Awards and nominations
But, again, this proved so effective with early audiences it was retained as the main trailer, since it created anticipation for the rest of the film without giving anything away.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Pre-release and marketing
The 1999 feature film "10 Things I Hate About You" features the following exchange extolling the virtues of Prada ownership: The 2006 feature film "The Devil Wears Prada" (based on the book of the same name) earned Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination for her role. Her shoe wardrobe for the film was said to be "at least 40% Prada" by the costume designer Patricia Field. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the supposed inspiration for Meryl Streep's character, wore Prada to the film's premiere.
Prada | Films
A former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 bestselling "roman à clef" "The Devil Wears Prada", later made into a successful 2006 film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor, believed to be based on Wintour. In 2009, she was the focus of another film, R. J. Cutler's documentary "The September Issue".
Anna Wintour | Introduction
In 2013, Weisberger wrote a sequel, "Revenge Wears Prada". However, it does not seem likely that a film version of it, or any sequel, will be made, as two of the film's stars are not eager to do so. Streep has reportedly said that she is not interested in making a sequel for this film in particular. And while Hathaway admits she'd be interested in working with the same people, it would have to be "something totally different." "The Devil Wears Prada", she told "Variety" "might have just hit the right note. It's good to leave it as it is."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Possible sequel
Immediately upon its December 12 release, it became the top rental in the United States. It held that spot through the end of the year, adding another $26.5 million to the film's grosses; it dropped out of the top 50 at the end of March, with its grosses almost doubling. The following week it made its debut on the DVD sales charts in third position. By the end of 2007 it had sold nearly 5.6 million units, for a total of $94.4 million in sales.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Reception
Several weeks after all the major parts had been cast, the actors gathered in New York for a table read. Hathaway was nervous and goofy, she recalls, since she still had not developed her idea of the part; she described her performance at that point as "[nothing] particularly impressive." Blunt, by contrast, found Streep's laugh relaxed her enough to keep her focused on playing a nervous, distracted Emily. The highlight of the session was Streep's first line as Miranda. Instead of the "strident, bossy, barking voice" everyone expected, Hathaway says, Streep silenced the room by speaking in a near whisper.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Acting
"[I]n choosing her wardrobe my idea was that she's a chief fashion editor, she has her own style," Fields told "Women's Wear Daily" in 2016. "We're creating an original character."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Costuming
At a charity benefit, she fails to provide information about a guest making his way to meet Miranda. Andy manages to save Miranda from embarrassment and is rewarded by being asked to replace Emily as Miranda's assistant at Fashion Week. Miranda tells Andy to inform Emily that she won't be going to Paris, but when Andy calls Emily, she is hit by a car and ends up in the hospital. Andy then tells the recovering Emily the news and Emily is infuriated. When Andy tells Nate she is going to Paris, he is angered by her refusal to admit that she has become what she once ridiculed, and they break up.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Plot
You just keep wanting to find something that can touch upon the same zeitgeist as this film." For Streep, the most significant thing about the film was that "[t]his was the first time, on any movie I have ever made, where men came up to me and said, 'I know what you felt like, this is kind of like my life.' That was for me the most ground-breaking thing about "Devil Wears Prada"—it engaged men on a visceral level," she told "Indiewire".
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Audience demographics
A few process shots were necessary, mainly to put exterior views behind windows on sets and in the Mercedes where Miranda and Andrea are having their climactic conversation. Fox originally refused permission to let Frankel shoot some scenes from the third act in Paris, where it is set, due to the low budget. But after six "nightmarish" weeks of shooting, he had an editor cut a "sizzle reel" of highlights. That convinced the studio to increase the budget to allow for limited shooting overseas (Streep did not go as Fox believed it would be too expensive).
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Filming
Originally intended just to convince Fox to fund some shooting in Paris, Frankel's sizzle reel led the studio to put a stronger marketing push behind the movie. It moved the release date from February to summer, scheduling it as a lighter alternative audiences could consider to "Superman Returns" at the end of June 2006, and began to position it as an event movie in and of itself. Two decisions by the studio's marketing department that were meant to be preliminary wound up being integral to promoting the film. The first was the creation of the red stiletto heel ending in a pitchfork as the film's teaser poster.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Pre-release and marketing
Subsequent producers were impressed that she had held her own playing opposite Streep, which led eventually to her being cast in more serious roles like "Rachel Getting Married" and "Les Misérables", for which she won an Oscar. "I think what people saw was promising—it made people want to see more." Hathaway believes that Blunt's career took off because of her role. "I've never witnessed a star being born before," Hathaway says. "That's the first time I watched it happen." Blunt agrees that it was "a night and day change" for her—the day after the film was released, she told "Variety", the staff at the coffee shop she had been going to for breakfast every morning in Los Angeles suddenly recognized her.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cast
Initial reviews of the film focused primarily on Streep's performance, praising her for making an extremely unsympathetic character far more complex than she had been in the novel. "With her silver hair and pale skin, her whispery diction as perfect as her posture, Ms. Streep's Miranda inspires both terror and a measure of awe," wrote A. O. Scott in "The New York Times". "No longer simply the incarnation of evil, she is now a vision of aristocratic, purposeful and surprisingly human grace." Kyle Smith agreed at the "New York Post": "The snaky Streep wisely chooses not to imitate "Vogue" editrix Anna Wintour, the inspiration for the book, but creates her own surprisingly believable character." David Edelstein, in "New York" magazine, criticized the film as "thin", but praised Streep for her "fabulous minimalist performance." J.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Critical response
"It was so unexpected and brilliant." At the reading Streep also changed Miranda's last line to "everybody wants to be "us"" from the original "me". Streep made a conscious decision not to play the part as a direct impression of Wintour, right down to not using an accent and making the character American rather than English ("I felt it was too restricting"). "I think she wanted people not to confuse the character of Miranda Priestly with Anna Wintour at all," said Frankel. "And that's why early on in the process she decided on a very different look for her and a different approach to the character." The "that's all," "please bore someone else ..." catchphrases; her coat-tossing on Andrea's desk and discarded steak lunch are retained from the novel.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Acting
The single priciest item was a $100,000 Fred Leighton necklace on Streep. When Hathaway enters the office after Nigel gives her access to "Runway"'s closet, she is dressed entirely in Chanel. Field explained in 2016 that "I felt Annie Hathaway was a Chanel girl organically, as opposed to let's say a Versace [or Roberto Cavalli] girl." When she called the company to ask for assistance, they were delighted because "they wanted to see Chanel on a young girl to give it another point of view," showing it as a brand for "not just middle-aged women in suits, but youthful and funky." Calvin Klein rounds out Andrea's wardrobe.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Costuming
Director David Frankel and producer Wendy Finerman had originally read "The Devil Wears Prada" in book proposal form. It would be Frankel's second theatrical feature, and his first in over a decade. He, cinematographer Florian Ballhaus and costume designer Patricia Field, drew heavily on their experience in making "Sex and the City". Frankel recalls the whole experience as having high stakes for those involved, since for himself and the others behind the camera it was the biggest project they had yet attempted, with barely adequate resources. "We knew we were on very thin ice," he told "Variety" for a 2016 article on the film's 10th anniversary.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Production
It's also accurate in its understanding of the relationship between the editor-in-chief and the assistant. Ginia Bellefante, former fashion reporter for "The New York Times", called it "easily the truest portrayal of fashion culture since "Unzipped"" and giving it credit for depicting the way fashion had changed in the early 21st century. Her colleague Ruth La Ferla found a different opinion from industry insiders after a special preview screening. Most found the fashion in the movie too safe and the beauty too overstated, more in tune with the 1980s than the 2000s. "My job is to present an entertainment, a world people can visit and take a little trip," responded Field.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Depiction of fashion industry
"My view was that we should be grateful for excellence. Why do the excellent people have to be nice?" He prepared to move on and consider more scripts. Two days later his manager persuaded him to reconsider and look for something he liked that he could shape the film into. He took the job, giving Finerman extensive notes on the script and laying out a detailed vision for the film.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Writing
Dolce & Gabbana and Calvin Klein helped Field as well, with some contributions from Lebanese designer Georges Chakra. Although Field avoids making Streep look like Wintour, she dresses her in generous helpings of Prada (By Field's own estimate, 40% of the shoes on Streep's feet are Prada). "I know her character was originally based on Anna Wintour," Field said, "but I didn't want to copy someone's style." But, like Wintour and her "Vogue" predecessor Diana Vreeland, the two realized that Miranda needed a signature look, which was provided primarily by the white wig and forelock she wore as well as the clothes the two spent much time poring over look-books for.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Costuming
According to Frankel, Streep saw the film as a chance to "skewer the doyennes of the fashion world." She has three daughters, and as an ardent feminist, felt that fashion magazines "twisted the minds of young women around the world and their priorities. This was an interesting way to get back at them." Also, she said, the film passed the Bechdel test. She insisted on the scenes where she explains to Andy the connection between the blue sweater she is wearing and the "haute couture" industry, and the scene where Miranda briefly opens up to Andy, without makeup, about her divorce.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Casting
The DVD was released on December 12, 2006 and has, in addition to the film, the following extras: Closed captions in French and Spanish are also available. The DVD is available in both full screen and widescreen versions. Pictures of the cast and the tagline "Hell on Heels" were added to the red-heel image for the cover. It was released in the UK on February 5, 2007. A Blu-ray Disc of the film was released simultaneously with the DVD. The Blu-ray maintains the same features as the DVD; however, the featurettes were dropped and replaced with a subtitle pop-up trivia track that can be watched by itself or along with the audio commentary.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Home media
Emily Blunt - "The Devil Wears Prada"
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 | British Supporting Actress of the Year
The cast members bonded tightly on the set, and remained close afterwards. Blunt invited them to her wedding to John Krasinski in 2010. There, Tucci met her sister Felicity, whom he later married. "Ten years after "The Devil Wears Prada", Stanley is in my actual family," she told "Variety". "How frightening is that?" In its anniversary story, "Variety" argued that it had benefited all three of its lead actresses. In addition to Streep's record-setting Oscar nomination, the magazine observed, it had proven that she could be a box-office draw by herself, opening doors up for her to be cast as a lead in later summer movies such as "Julie & Julia" and "Mamma Mia!" For Hathaway, it was her first leading role in a film intended for an adult audience.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cast
In 2003, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to a film adaptation of Weisberger's novel before it was completed for publication. However, the project was not greenlit until Streep was cast in the lead role. Principal photography lasted 57 days, primarily taking place in New York City from October to December 2005. Additional filming also occurred in Paris. After premiering at the LA Film Festival on June 22, 2006, the film was theatrically released in the United States on June 30. The film received positive reviews from critics, with Streep's performance being singled out for acclaim. This earned her many award nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Introduction
Before writing the novel, Weisberger had worked as a personal assistant for American "Vogue" editor Anna Wintour, much like the novel's protagonist works for a powerful fashion magazine editor, who also happens to be British like Wintour. Reviewers considered the book a "roman à clef", offering insider perspectives on Wintour and other "Vogue" staff. A sequel, "Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns", was published in 2013.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Introduction
Inspired by "The Devil Wears Prada", Lee played a hardworking assistant to a perfectionist fashion magazine editor played by Kim Hye-soo. She next starred in the Korean-Japanese romance film "The Relation of Face, Mind and Love" alongside Kang Ji-hwan, which marks her big-screen debut.
Lee Ji-ah | 2007–2013
Meryl Streep - "The Devil Wears Prada"
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 | Actress of the Year
Streep prepared by reading a book by Wintour protégé Liz Tilberis and the memoirs of "Vogue" editor Diana Vreeland. She lost so much weight during shooting that the clothes had to be taken in. During the movie's press tour she also said her performance as Miranda was inspired by different men she knew, but did not say which ones. In 2016 she disclosed to "Variety" that she took Miranda's soft speaking style from Clint Eastwood: "He never, ever, ever raises his voice and everyone has to lean in to listen, and he is automatically the most powerful person in the room." However, she said, Eastwood does not make jokes, so instead she modeled that aspect of the character on theatrical and film director Mike Nichols, whose delivery of a cutting remark, she said, made everyone laugh, including the target.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Acting
In September, Weisberger and Frankel jointly accepted the first-ever Quill "Variety" Blockbuster Book to Film Award.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Film adaptation
Fox bought the rights to Weisberger's novel before it was not only published in 2003, but even finished. Carla Hecken, then the studio's executive vice president, had only seen the first hundred pages of manuscript and an outline for how the rest of the plot was to go. But for her that was enough. "I thought Miranda Priestly was one of the greatest villains ever," she recalled in 2016. "I remember we aggressively went in and scooped it up."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Pre-production
"Everybody has had an experience like this." Tucci did not believe specific explanations were necessary. "It's a fucking brilliant movie ... The brilliant movies become influential, no matter what they are about."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cultural impact and legacy
"[The film] definitely paved the way for the filmmakers and distributors of the world to know that there was a female audience that was really strong out there", Gabler recalls, one that was not segmented by age. She pointed to later movies, such as "Mamma Mia!", "27 Dresses" (written by McKenna) and "Me Before You", that appeared to her to be trying to replicate "The Devil Wears Prada"'s success with that demographic. However, Gabler feels they did not do so as well. ""Prada" reminds me of movies that we don't have a lot of now—it harkens back to classic movies that had so much more than just one kind of plot line ...
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Audience demographics
Principal photography took place over 57 days in New York and Paris between October and December 2005. The film's budget was $41 million. It was originally lower, which caused problems with some locations—the crew could not get permission to shoot at the Museum of Modern Art or Bryant Park. Ballhaus, at Finerman and Frankel's suggestion, composed as many shots as possible, whether interiors or exteriors, to at least partially take in busy New York street scenes in the background, to convey the excitement of working in a glamorous industry in New York. He also used a handheld camera during some of the busier meeting scenes in Miranda's office, to better convey the flow of action, and slow motion for Andrea's entrance into the office following her makeover.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Filming
When Betty asks Marc to suggest a replacement for her, now that she is going to "MYW", Marc responds Anne Hathaway, a reference to the star's hit movie, "The Devil Wears Prada", which the show was previously compared to. Christopher Gorham, who officially became a recurring regular starting with this episode, co-starred with Hathaway in the 2001 film "The Other Side of Heaven".
Fake Plastic Snow | Allusions
The soundtrack album for "The Devil Wears Prada" was released by Warner Brothers/WEA on July 11, 2006. It includes popular songs by U2 and Madonna, and work by Alanis Morissette and Jamiroquai, many of which were used for significant scenes in the film. The film also contains the Blackliquid Remix to DJ Colette's hit single, "Feelin' Hypnotized". However, "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall, which plays over the opening credits, is not included on the album, nor are some other tracks like 's "Our Remains" and Madonna's "Jump", to the disappointment of many buyers. It enjoyed some popularity nevertheless. Rounding out the album is a suite of original music composed for the movie by Theodore Shapiro.
The Devil Wears Prada (soundtrack) | Introduction
Continued strong weekends as it opened across the rest of Europe helped it remain atop the overseas charts for the rest of the month. By the end of the year only its Chinese opening remained; it was released there at the end of February 2007 and took in $2.4 million. The greatest portion of the $201.8 million total international box office came from the United Kingdom, with $26.5 million. Germany was next with $23.1 million, followed by Italy at $19.3 million and France at $17.9 million. Outside Europe, Japanese box office was the highest at $14.6 million, followed by Australia at $12.6 million.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | International
"When Life Gives You Lululemons," a second sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada," was released in 2018. It follows the character of Emily Charlton, Miranda's Priestly's assistant played by Emily Blunt in the movie adaptation.
Lauren Weisberger | "When Life Gives You Lululemons"
Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 dramas "Havoc" and "Brokeback Mountain". The comedy film "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering alcoholic in the drama "Rachel Getting Married" (2008), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed this with roles in the commercially successful romantic films "Bride Wars" (2009), "Valentine's Day" (2010), "Love & Other Drugs" (2010), and the fantasy film "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). In 2012, Hathaway starred as Selina Kyle in her highest-grossing film "The Dark Knight Rises", the final installment in "The Dark Knight" trilogy.
Anne Hathaway | Introduction
The film was a commercial and critical success, grossing $326,551,094. Though co-star Meryl Streep garnered most of the attention for her role, Blunt's performance was equally praised, with Clifford Pugh of the "Houston Chronicle" asserting that "[Blunt] has many of the movie's best lines and steals nearly every scene she's in." Blunt was nominated the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance. She attended the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with Hathaway, with both acting as their characters from the film.
Emily Blunt | 2005–2010: "The Devil Wears Prada" and breakthrough
Wintour starred in "The Fashion Fund", which aired on Ovation TV that year as well; she was named the 39th most powerful woman in the world by "Forbes". On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of "The Devil Wears Prada"'s release, in 2016, "The Ringer" noted how Wintour's personal image had evolved since that film's depiction of Miranda Priestley. "A decade ago this summer, Wintour became a living, breathing avatar for a certain kind of boss—the terrible kind, with 'great' a halfhearted asterisk," wrote Alison Herman. ""The Devil Wears Prada" transformed Wintour's image from that of a mere public figure into that of a cultural icon."
Anna Wintour | 2010s
"I do not think fiction could surpass the reality," a British fashion magazine editor says of "The Devil Wears Prada." "[A]rt in this instance is only a poor imitation of life." Wintour, the editor says, routinely requests to be seated out of sight of competing editors at shows. "We spend our working lives telling people which it-bag to carry but Anna is so above the rest of us she does not even have a handbag."
Anna Wintour | Elitism
Out of many candidates with experience in comedy, David Frankel was hired despite his limited experience, having only made one feature, "Miami Rhapsody", along with some episodes of "Sex and the City" and "Entourage". He was unsure about the property, calling it "undirectable ... a satire rather than a love story." Later, he cited "Unzipped", the 1995 documentary about designer Isaac Mizrahi, as his model for the film's attitude towards fashion: "[It] revels in some of the silliness of the fashion world, but is also very serious." At a meeting with Finerman, Frankel told her that he thought the story unnecessarily punished Miranda.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Writing
The casting and production schedule is still to be announced but it is aimed to play on Broadway.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Musical
Shapiro, artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theater Company, also located in Chicago, to have the show premiere there. Afterwards the show is expected to make its Broadway debut; where and when have not been announced.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Musical adaptation
"Revenge Wears Prada," a sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada," was released on June 4, 2013. It debuted at No. 3 on the "New York Times Bestseller List."
Lauren Weisberger | "Revenge Wears Prada"
Andrea Sachs, the novel's main character, notes that she makes all the magazine's key editorial decisions by herself and that she has genuine class and style. "I never for one second didn't know it was an amazing opportunity to assist Anna," Weisberger said in 2008.
Anna Wintour | "The Devil Wears Prada"
All score selections composed by Theodore Shapiro.
The Devil Wears Prada (soundtrack) | "The Devil Wears Prada Orchestral Oscar Edition"
In 2008, "The New York Times" wrote that the movie had defined the image of a personal assistant in the public mind. Seven years later, "Dissent"'s Francesca Mari wrote about "the assistant economy" by which many creative professionals rely on workers so titled to do menial personal and professional tasks for them; she pointed to "The Devil Wears Prada" as the best-known narrative of assistantship. The next year, writing about a proposed change in U.S. federal overtime regulations that was seen as threatening to that practice, the "Times" called it the '"Devil Wears Prada"' economy", a term other news outlets also used.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Popular culture and society
She denied it through a spokesperson who said she was interested in anything that "supports fashion." Many designers are mentioned in the film. Only one, Valentino Garavani, appeared as himself. The film was released, in mid-2006, to great commercial success. Wintour attended the première wearing Prada. In the film, actress Meryl Streep plays a Priestly different enough from the book's to receive critical praise as an entirely original (and more sympathetic) character. (Streep's office in the film was similar enough to Wintour's that Wintour reportedly had hers redecorated.)
Anna Wintour | Film adaptation
The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a job that becomes nightmarish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's grueling schedule and demeaning demands. It spent six months on the "New York Times" bestseller list and became the basis for the 2006 film of the same name, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. The novel is considered by many to be an example of the "chick lit" genre. Upon its publication "The Devil Wears Prada" attracted attention because of its author's background.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Introduction
She begins to dress stylishly and starts showing effort for the position, accommodating all of Miranda's whims and fancies. Problems arise in her relationship with her chef boyfriend, Nate, who increasingly finds her spending all her time at her new boss's beck and call. Miranda starts to notice Andy's changed appearance and commitment and begins to give her more responsibility and complicated tasks to handle. Slowly but surely, Andy becomes more glamorous and begins aligning herself, unwittingly at first, to the "Runway" philosophy. She gradually begins to outperform Emily at her job. Emily, meanwhile, is consumed with the thought of attending Paris Fashion Week as Miranda's assistant, and starts to lose her health by attempting extreme diets.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Plot
Weisberger's novel had been translated into 37 different languages, giving the movie a strong potential foreign audience. The international box office would ultimately deliver 60% of the film's gross. "We did our European premiere at the Venice Film Festival", Gabler says, where the city's gondoliers wore red T-shirts with the film's logo. "So many people around the world were captivated by the glossy fashion world. It was sexy and international." "The Devil Wears Prada" topped the charts on its first major European release weekend on October 9, after a strong September Oceania and Latin America opening. It would be the highest-grossing film that weekend in Britain, Spain and Russia, taking in $41.5 million overall.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | International
Karl Lagerfeld showed the Chanel black leather thigh boot with many of his Autumn 2005 designs that actress Anne Hathaway later wore in "The Devil Wears Prada", which made her a fashion icon.
Thigh-high boots | Autumn 2005
Work on a screenplay started promptly, before Weisberger had even finished her work. When it became a bestseller upon publication, elements of the plot were incorporated into the screenplay in progress. Most took their inspiration from the 2001 Ben Stiller film "Zoolander" and primarily satirized the fashion industry. But it was still not ready to film. Elizabeth Gabler, later head of production at Fox, noted that the finished novel did not have a strong narrative. "Since there wasn't a strong third act in the book," she said later, "we needed to invent that." In the meantime, the studio and producer Wendy Finerman sought a director.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Writing
On its June 30 opening weekend, right before the Independence Day holiday, the film was on 2,847 screens. Through that Sunday, July 2, it grossed $27 million, second only to the much bigger-budget "Superman Returns", breaking "The Patriot"'s six-year-old record for the largest take by a movie released that holiday weekend that did not win the weekend; a record that stood until "" broke it in 2009. During its first week it added $13 million. This success led Fox to add 35 more screens the next weekend, the widest domestic distribution the film enjoyed. Although it was never any week's top-grossing film, it remained in the top 10 through July.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Commercial
The film has made a lasting impact on popular culture. Although a TV series based on it was not picked up, in the years after its release "The Simpsons" titled an episode "The Devil Wears Nada" and parodied some scenes. The American version of "The Office" began an episode with Steve Carell as Michael Scott imitating Miranda after watching the film on Netflix. On episode 18 of season 14 of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", Kris Jenner dressed as Miranda, channeling her 'Boss Lady' persona. In 2019, reports that Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, then seeking the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2020 election, mistreated her staff and made unreasonable demands of them led some writers to invoke Miranda as a point of reference.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Popular culture and society
Among the deleted scenes are some that added more background information to the story, with commentary available by the editor and director. Most were deleted by Livolsi in favor of keeping the plot focused on the conflict between Miranda and Andrea, often without consulting Frankel. Frankel generally approved of his editor's choices, but differed on one scene, showing more of Andrea on her errand to the Calvin Klein showroom. He felt that scene showed Andrea's job was about more than running personal errands for Miranda. A different version of the scene at the gala was the subject of a 2017 discussion on Twitter when it was rediscovered by Spencer Althouse, "Buzzfeed"s community manager.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Deleted scenes
"As a fashion journalist I can vouch for its gist: that regardless of how immune you think you are to fashion, if you buy clothes, you are indebted to someone else's choice", she wrote in an article about how the fashion industry continues to embrace the speech's argument. "Arguing that you are oblivious to trends is a fashion choice in itself." As an example of how that had happened in reality since the film she cited the yellow Guo Pei dress Rihanna wore to the 2015 Met Gala, greatly popularizing that color for clothing over the next two years.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cerulean sweater speech
Lauren Weisberger has published a sequel of the book: "Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns".
Lauren Weisberger | "The Devil Wears Prada"
The Weinstein Company has adapted Potts's life in a film called "One Chance", with James Corden starring as Potts. The script is by Justin Zackham and the film is directed by David Frankel, the director of "The Devil Wears Prada".
Paul Potts | Film adaptation
Frankel, who had worked with Patricia Field on his feature-film debut "Miami Rhapsody" as well as "Sex and the City", knew that what the cast wore would be of utmost importance in a movie set in the fashion industry. "My approach was to hire her and then leave the room," he joked later. While only Valentino Garavani appeared onscreen, many other designers were helpful to Field. Her $100,000 budget for the film's costumes was supplemented by help from friends throughout the industry. Ultimately, she believes, at least $1 million worth of clothing was used in the film, making it one of the most expensively costumed movies in cinema history.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Costuming
Meryl Streep – "The Devil Wears Prada"
11th Satellite Awards | Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
Aside from his creations appearing in the 2006 movie "The Devil Wears Prada," featuring Meryl Streep, Georges Chakra's work has also been featured in the television series "Gossip Girl" featuring Blake Lively and Leighton Meester.
Georges Chakra | TV and film
On the film's 10th anniversary, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote in "The Washington Post" that Miranda anticipated female antiheroines of popular television series of the later 2000s and 2010s such as "Scandal"'s Olivia Pope and Cersei Lannister in "Game of Thrones". Like them, she observes, Miranda competently assumes a position of authority often held by male characters, despite her moral failings, that she must defend against attempts to use her personal life to remove her from it, to "prov[e], as a creature of sentiment, that she never belonged there in the first place." In doing so, however successfully to herself and others, "she has zipped herself into a life as regimented and limited as a skintight pencil skirt."
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Popular culture and society
"The Devil Wears Prada" – Patricia Field
11th Satellite Awards | Best Costume Design
Frankel had wanted to use "City of Blinding Lights" in the film after he had used it as a soundtrack to a video montage of Paris scenes he had put together after scouting locations there. Likewise, Field had advocated just as strongly for "Vogue." The soundtrack album was released on July 11 by Warner Music. It includes all the songs mentioned above (except Madonna's "Jump") as well as a suite of Shapiro's themes. Among the tracks not included is "Suddenly I See," which disappointed many fans. It became popular as a result of the film.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Music
"I was like, it'd be cool if half of that ended up in the movie," the writer says. "Every word is in the movie." The references to past designer collections are entirely fictional, McKenna explains, since the speech was written around the sweater's color (however, the "Huffington Post" later pointed out, designers often take their fashion inspiration from the streets). The speech has become one of the film's most memorable moments; "Miranda's signature monologue" to "The Ringer". "'Cerulean' [has never] sounded more sinister," the "Huffington Post" wrote in 2016, In 2018 "New York Times" chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman invoked the speech in her defense of the importance of covering "haute couture": Morwenna Ferrier, a fashion reporter for "The Guardian" agreed despite the speech's references to fictional collections.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Cerulean sweater speech
In 2015, it was reported that Broadway producer Kevin McCollum had signed a deal two years earlier with Fox to develop some of the films from its back catalog into musicals for the stage. Two he expressed particular interest in were "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "The Devil Wears Prada". Early in 2017, McCollum announced that in partnership with Fox Stage Productions, he was developing a musical version of "The Devil Wears Prada" (based on both the film and the book). Sir Elton John and Shaina Taub will be writing the score and lyrics for the project with playwright Paul Rudnick, who had written some early scenes for the screenplay, writing the book and lyrics.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Musical adaptation
McCollum did not say when he expected it to premiere but hoped it would eventually play on Broadway. In July 2019, the show held its first industry-only presentation of the initial reading for the show. It featured Emily Skinner as Miranda, Krystina Alabado as Andy, Heléne Yorke as Emily and Mario Cantone as Nigel. There has been no announcement about future workshops or tryouts before the anticipated Broadway run. In late September a premiere run was announced for July and August 2020 at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago. According to producer Kevin McCollum, it was important to director Anna D.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | Musical adaptation
Blunt starred in the British television drama "Gideon's Daughter", based on an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, where she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner. The film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2005, and debuted on British television in February 2006. The drama was praised for its overall "sterling performances," and Blunt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. She then featured in the comedy-drama "The Devil Wears Prada", set in the fashion world in New York City. Blunt played Emily, the senior assistant of "Runway" magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly.
Emily Blunt | 2005–2010: "The Devil Wears Prada" and breakthrough
Adams and Blunt get the job done." A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" agreed, stating "Amy Adams and Emily Blunt [...] attack their roles with vivacity and dedication..." She then starred in "The Great Buck Howard" as Valerie Brennan, which premiered at the same festival.
Emily Blunt | 2005–2010: "The Devil Wears Prada" and breakthrough
The success of the film led to a proposed, but unrealized, American dramedy series that was in contention to air for the 2007–08 television season on Fox. It was to be produced by Fox Television Studios, with the premise adjusted for the confines of a traditional half-hour or one-hour dramedy with a single camera set-up. However, it never reached the point of even producing a pilot episode. With the video release came renewed interest in Weisberger's novel. It ranked eighth on "USA Today"s list of 2006 best sellers and was the second most borrowed book in American libraries. The audiobook version was released in October 2006 and quickly made it to third on that medium's fiction best seller list.
The Devil Wears Prada (film) | In other media
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, the book's sequel, is set a decade after the events of the first novel. In it, Andy is the editor for a new bridal magazine. But as she plans her own wedding, she remains haunted by her experience with Miranda until the two meet again. Associated Press stated, 'The book successfully sprinkles pop culture tidbits to keep up the breezy tone...for this summer, it's a pleasant, entertaining read in a tabloid magazine sort of way.' "Depatures" said, "Miranda Priestly returns, more delightfully terrifying than ever, in this delicious sequel to The Devil Wears Prada." Richmond Times-Dispatch called it, "An excellent page turner for summer vacation." BookReporter wrote, 'The reader is pulled into the glitz and glamour reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada" and the movie adaptation.' "The Washington Post" said, 'Miranda is pretty much the only thing that makes this book interesting.' MSN.com called the story "disconcerting".
The Devil Wears Prada (novel) | Sequel