'Devil Wears Prada' Sequel Leads Box Office With $77 Million

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/devil-wears-prada-2-box-office.html

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'Devil Wears Prada' Sequel Leads Box Office With $77 Million

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/devil-wears-prada-2-box-office.html

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Open Channel: What Are (Still) Your Favorite Infinity Saga Movies?

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🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on May 3!
What's your fave?

1. Dragonkeeper
2. The Fall Guy
3. Iron Man 3
4. Iron Man: Rise of Technovore

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100 Years of Movie Musicals: Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the movie musical, and to celebrate I’m embarking on a two-year project to watch 100 movie musicals from 1927 to the present!

Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Release Date: August 30, 1940
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Main Cast:

• Maureen O’Hara as Judy O’Brien
• Louis Hayward as James ‘Jimmy’ Harris Jr.
• Lucille Ball as Bubbles/Tiger Lily White
• Virginia Field as Elinor Harris
• Ralph Bellamy as Steve Adams
• Maria Ouspenskaya as Madame Lydia Basilova
• Mary Carlisle as Sally
• Katharine Alexander as Miss Olmstead
• Edward Brophy as Dwarfie Humblewinger
• Walter Abel as Judge
• Harold Huber as Kashulian
• Sidney Blackmer as Puss in Boots
• Ludwig Stössel as Caesar
• Harry Tenbrook as Spectator

Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man

My Thoughts:

Judy O’Brien dreams of becoming a ballerina but makes ends meet dancing in clubs.  Her fellow chorus girl and sometimes roommate Bubbles is content to reinvent herself as the burlesque star Tiger Lily White.  Bubbles gets Judy work as a stooge, which means dancing ballet so that the men in audience can yell at her while Bubbles makes a costume change.  They both find themselves attracted to Jimmy, a rich drip going through a messy divorce whose still very much in love with his wife.  The tension builds as Judy simmers through the all the indignities.

I’m of two minds on this film.  On the one hand, it’s full of the cliches of backstage musicals and feels contrived to set up didactic messages.  On the other hand it’s a covert feminist dismantling of those types of films.  In defense of that latter interpretation is the fact that Dorothy Arzner was the only woman director in Hollywood at that time and probably had things to say about the male gaze and women’s inequality in show business.  Lucille Ball is terrific as Bubbles who uses her sexuality to get her way and is millions of miles away from Lucy Ricardo.  Maureen O’Hara’s performance feels ridiculous in how perfectly good she is, but when she finally snaps it’s incredible.

There are some great song and dance numbers in this movie and it definitely feels ambitious for it’s time, albeit held back by the production code.

Rating: ***1/2

Vogue Alumni Stage a Reunion for 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/style/vogue-devil-wears-prada-2-movie.html

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By now, if you don't know the shocking twist of Soylent Green, well, you probably just don't know that you know it.

Sadly, it's still relevant. Even MORE SO perhaps now than in the '70s considering some of the things have have made the news this year.

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It's National Paranormal Day.

Which brings to mind one of my favorite extraterrestrials.....Paul.

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Agent> it's a great opportunity, being a ghost writer, plus the money is good so the kids won't starve.

Writer> I don't have any kids

Agent> I do

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🎬 The Top 4 Comedy Movies Released on May 3!
What's your fave?

1. The Circus
2. My Family
3. Meet John Doe
4. The Fall Guy

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