Happy May the 4th, nuts. The summer movie season has officially clocked in, and somehow the biggest story of the weekend wasn't a cape, a sword, or a CGI dragon - it was a pair of Prada heels and Meryl Streep raising one very famous eyebrow.

Twenty years after the original strutted into theaters, The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened to a runway-melting $77 million domestic and $233 million worldwide, making it the biggest opening of Meryl Streep's entire career. That's right - she's been at this for half a century and her highest-ever bow is a sequel to a movie about a magazine.

Disney/20th Century gambled that bringing back Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt would be enough to pull a non-superhero, non-IP-soaked legacy sequel to the top of the charts. Turns out, when you cast actual movie stars in something with even a whiff of personality, people show up. Audiences slapped it with an A- CinemaScore (up from the original's "B"). Crazy concept: give grown adults something fun and they'll buy a ticket.

Now, look, we'll keep our usual pinch of skepticism here. This is still Disney, and the fact that the studio's "biggest" win of 2026 so far is a 20-year-old fashion satire instead of any of their other tentpoles tells you everything about where the modern Mouse House is creatively. But credit where credit is due - the cast brought it, the script reportedly didn't try to lecture anyone, and the audience response is the kind of word-of-mouth Disney has been begging for.

The Michael Jackson biopic Michael slid only 44% in its second frame, which is fantastic for a music biopic, banking another $54 million to push its domestic haul to $183.8M and its worldwide total over $425 million. It's now the second-highest-grossing music biopic of all time, behind only Bohemian Rhapsody. Whatever you think of the King of Pop's complicated legacy, audiences are showing up.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie keeps printing money in third with $12.1M (now over $386M domestic), Ryan Gosling's Project Hail Mary hung in there at $8.5M (over $305M domestic and $613M worldwide), and Neon's tiny indie horror Hokum with Adam Scott pulled a tidy $6.4 million in fifth, the fourth-biggest opening in Neon's history. A haunted-Irish-inn movie made on a $5M budget? That's the kind of scrappy, mid-budget filmmaking we love around here.

Tonight, Lucasfilm is hosting free fan events at IMAX theaters around the world for a 25-minute The Mandalorian and Grogu special look. Attendees get a limited-edition mini poster and a Pin USA pin. Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are running the show now that Kathleen Kennedy has finally been moved off her throne (she stepped down in January, with Filoni taking over as President and Chief Creative Officer alongside Lynwen Brennan).

Yes, it took 14 years, multiple busted trilogies, the Acolyte implosion, and approximately one billion fan complaints, but the franchise is finally in the hands of someone who, you know, actually likes Star Wars. The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters May 22, and Deadline is forecasting an $80M opening. We'll believe it when we see it - but pulling Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, and Jeremy Allen White into a Favreau-directed, IMAX-shot Mando movie is the most "let's get back to basics" thing Lucasfilm has done since the Disney acquisition. Fingers crossed.

This Friday (May 8), Karl Urban finally suits up as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II, which is reusing the original Techno Syndrome theme and looks like it's actually leaning into the absurd, gory video-game energy that made the franchise work in the first place. Critical Drinker is going to have a field day either way - either it rules and he loves it, or it stinks and he gets a 25-minute video out of it. Win-win.

Looking down the runway, May is stacked: Final Destination: Bloodlines slices in May 16, The Mandalorian and Grogu lands May 22, and the Philippou brothers' A24 nightmare Bring Her Back opens May 30. Then in June, Spielberg's UFO movie Disclosure Day with Emily Blunt drops June 12, and Toy Story 5 shows up June 19. Cinelytic is projecting a $4.5 billion domestic summer - the biggest since 2016. About time.

Now go enjoy your Monday, queue up Empire Strikes Back tonight (the proper way to celebrate May the 4th), and we'll see you next week.

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