Although Miranda Priestley earned 20th Century Fox more than $326 million worldwide, The Devil Wears Prada had to fight for its budget.
Meryl Streep recently recalled how the 2006 movie’s classification as a “chick flick” made it difficult to pull together a budget for the David Frankel-helmed adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s novel.
“Twenty years ago, it was categorized as a ‘chick flick,’ and that designation has kind of not worn well after Barbie and Mamma Mia!—to throw that in—and other films that completely catch the studios by surprise that people want to see them, because they have girls in the center of the story, women in the center of the story,” she said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“So, we had to scrabble for our budget. And that was true,” added Streep. “I’ve talked to Greta [Gerwig] about it, that was true with Barbie a
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