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Field said she avoided prevailing fashion trends for Miranda during production in favor of a more timeless look based on Donna Karan archives and pieces by Michaele Vollbracht for Bill Blass. She contrasted Andrea and Emily by giving Andrea a sense of style, without much risk-taking, that would suggest clothing a fashion magazine would have on hand for shoots, clothing a recent college graduate with little sense of style would feel comfortable wearing in a fashion-conscious workplace.

Tucci praised Field's skill in putting ensembles together that were not only stylish but helped him develop his character:. Those outfits achieve exactly what I was trying to achieve. There's flamboyance, there's real risk-taking, but when I walk into the room, it's not flashy.

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It's actually very subtle. You look at it and you go, "That shirt, that tie, that jacket, that vest? He found one Dries van Noten tie he wore during the film to his liking and kept it. After touring some offices of real fashion magazines, Jess Gonchor gave the Runway offices a clean, white look meant to suggest a makeup compact [27] "the chaste beiges and whites of impervious authority," Denby called it [48].

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 [49] 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.

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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.

For the photo of Andrea with her parents, Hathaway posed with her own mother and David Marshall Grant. Aside from the clothing and accessories, some other well-known brands are conspicuous in the film. The crew were in Paris for only two days, and used only exteriors.

Streep did not make the trip. Mark Livolsi realized, as McKenna had on the other end, that the film worked best when it focused on the Andrea-Miranda storyline. Accordingly, he cut a number of primarily transitional scenes, such as Andrea's job interview and the Runway staff's trip to Holt's studio. He also took out a scene early on where Miranda complimented Andrea.

Upon reviewing them for the DVD, Frankel admitted he hadn't even seen them before, since Livolsi didn't include them in any prints he sent to the director. Frankel praised Livolsi for making the film's four key montages —the opening credits, Miranda's coat-tossing, Andrea's makeover and the Paris introduction—work. 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.

Composer Theodore Shapiro relied heavily on guitar and percussion, with the backing of a full orchestra , to capture a contemporary urban sound. He ultimately wrote 35 minutes of music for the film, which were performed and recorded by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Pete Anthony. 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.

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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. 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 , 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. 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. 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.

Gabler credits the studio's marketing team for being "really creative". Fox saw the film as "counterprogramming" on the weekend Superman Returns was released. While they knew that the material and Hathaway would help draw a younger female audience that would not be as interested in seeing that film, "[w]e didn't want it to just seem like a chick flick coming out.

The Devil Wears Prada received positive reviews from critics. 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. Streep's Miranda inspires both terror and a measure of awe," wrote A. Scott in The New York Times. Kyle Smith agreed at the New York Post: David Edelstein , in New York magazine, criticized the film as "thin", but praised Streep for her "fabulous minimalist performance. 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 's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ].

Blunt, too, earned some favorable notice. Reviewers familiar with Weisberger's novel assented to her judgment that McKenna's script greatly improved upon it. David Denby summed up this response in his New Yorker review: Still, what a surface! Denby said "she suggests, with no more than a panicky sidelong glance, what Weisberger takes pages to describe. 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. The film brilliantly skewers a particular kind of young woman who lives, breathes, thinks fashion above all else 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. Most found the fashion in the movie too safe and the beauty too overstated, more in tune with the s than the s.

Liz Jones , former editor of British Marie Claire , wrote in the Daily Mail that the movie was "a chilling reminder of the most surreal three years of my life. On its June 30 opening weekend, right before the Independence Day holiday, the film was on 2, screens. Dawn of the Dinosaurs broke it in 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. Its theatrical run continued through December 10, shortly before the DVD release.

Streep would surpass it two years later with Mamma Mia [75] while Hathaway exceeded it with 's Alice in Wonderland. It was also Tucci's highest-grossing film until Captain America: The First Avenger in 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. So I was percent behind it.

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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: Weisberger's novel had been translated into 37 different languages, giving the movie a strong potential foreign audience. It was sexy and international. Most reviews from the international press echoed the domestic response, heaping praise on Streep and the other actors, but calling the whole film "predictable. In most markets the title remained unchanged; either the English was used or a translation into the local language.

A committee of staffers at the magazine made the nominations and chose the award winner. Editor Peter Bart praised both works. It has delighted the country, much as did Lauren Weisberger's book, which is still going strong on several national bestseller lists. The film was honored by the National Board of Review as one of the year's ten best. Makeup artist and hairstylists Nicki Ledermann and Angel de Angelis also were nominated. At the end of January, Streep received her 14th Academy Award nomination for Best Actress , lengthening her record from 13 for most nominations by any actor male or female.

Field received a Best Costume Design nomination as well. Streep played along with a stern expression before smiling. The success of the film led to a proposed, but unrealized, American dramedy series that was in contention to air for the —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 best sellers [] and was the second most borrowed book in American libraries. In , 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.

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Two he expressed particular interest in were Mrs. Doubtfire and The Devil Wears Prada. Early in , 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 will be composing the score for the project with playwright Paul Rudnick , who had written some early scenes for the screenplay, mostly with Miranda, [8] writing the book and lyrics.

McCollum did not say when he expected it to premiere but hoped it would eventually play on Broadway. The DVD was released on December 12, 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, 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.

Immediately upon its December 12 release, it became the top rental in the United States. By the end of it had sold nearly 5. 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. In , 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.

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 brilliant movies become influential, no matter what they are about. The cast members bonded tightly on the set, and remained close afterwards. Blunt invited them to her wedding to John Krasinski in There, Tucci met her sister Felicity, whom he later married. In its anniversary story, Variety argued that it had benefited all three of its lead actresses.

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For Hathaway, it was her first leading role in a film intended for an adult audience. Hathaway believes that Blunt's career took off because of her role. Even ten years later, people still quote her lines from the film back to her at least once a week, she says. She pointed to later movies, such as Mamma Mia! However, Gabler feels they did not do so as well.

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. 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. In , The New York Times wrote that the movie had defined the image of a personal assistant in the public mind.

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 s and s 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.

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Cutler 's documentary The September Issue , which followed Wintour and other Vogue editors as they prepared the issue for that month of In , 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. It's good to leave it as it is. In , it was announced that a musical adaptation of the film was in the works. In , it was announced that Elton John and Shaina Taub would write the music and lyrics, respectively, with Paul Rudnick penning the book.

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