“The Devil Wears Prada” is just one of those movies that when it’s on, you kind of have to watch. The clothes are amazing, Meryl Streep is at her wicked best, and it’s endlessly quotable. Miranda Priestly really does say it better than anyone else.
Here are eight “Devil Wears Prada” quotes that seriously apply to everyday life.
It’s been 10 years since “The Devil Wears Prada” hit theaters (June 30th, 2006) and we’ve never looked at the color cerulean the same way since. But the box office success had more of an impact on audiences than teaching them about the subtle nuances of colors and fabrics. The film’s enviable glamorous wardrobe, one of Meryl Streep’s most delightfully devilish performances, and the ridiculously quotable script all guarantee that this is one movie that really will never go out of style.
You probably already know the film was based on the best-selling 2003 Lauren Weisberger novel of the same name, but we’re here to fill you in on a few more little-known facts about the fashion film gem you may not be aware of.
1. The role of recent Northwestern graduate and aspiring journalist Andy Sachs ultimately went to Anne Hathaway, but she wasn’t the first choice for the lead. Rachel McAdams was Fox’s number one pick, but she turned it down after a few offers.
2. To prepare for her role as an assistant in a cutthroat environment, Anne Hathaway interned at Christie’s auction house for a few weeks, but her work experience sounds a lot more pleasant then the film. “It was amazing. I got to see some wonderful art and everybody was really nice. It was great,” she told ET in 2015.
3. The clothing budget for the film was only $100,000, so stylist Patricia Field resorted to borrowing a huge portion of the wardrobe. The clothing actually ended up being worth over $1 million.
4. Meryl Streep almost turned down the Oscar-nominated role of Miranda Priestly. “The offer was to my mind slightly, if not insulting, not perhaps reflective of my actual value to the project,” Streep revealed to Variety. “There was my ‘goodbye moment,’ and then they doubled the offer. I was 55, and I had just learned, at a very late date, how to deal on my own behalf.”
5. The character of Miranda’s first assistant Emily, played to wicked perfection by Emily Blunt, was not originally supposed to be British.
6. Meryl Streep’s inspiration for Miranda didn’t come from Anna Wintour or the fashion industry. She told Variety that she modeled the character’s voice after none other than Clint Eastwood, noting that he “never, ever raises his voice.”
7. One of the film’s most memorable scenes — the iconic “cerulean” monologue where Miranda gives Andy a biting lesson on why her blue sweater means more than meets the eye — almost didn’t make it in the movie. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna said that the lines putting down Andy’s style sense “didn’t serve the narrative.” But Meryl Streep changed all that. “Meryl wanted to make it bigger,” McKenna explained. The concept became less about dissing Andy, and more about showing the importance and impact of fashion and how much of an influence Priestly had on the industry.
8. Lauren Weisberger, the author of the book the film is based on, actually makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo. She portrayed the nanny to Miranda’s twins — you can catch her in the scene on the train where the girls are reading the Harry Potter manuscripts.
9. The film sparked a huge love connection! Emily Blunt set her sister Felicity up with Stanley Tucci, who played Runway art director Nigel. Felicity and Stanley ended up tying the knot in 2012.
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Disney has announced the release date for “Mary Poppins Returns,” a sequel to the 1964 classic. The new film will open December 25, 2018, and will star Emily Blunt and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Blunt is reuniting with her “Into the Woods” director Rob Marshall for the project.
Plot details about the movie were also unveiled:
Blunt has been cast as Mary Poppins and Miranda will play a new character, a street lamplighter named Jack. Drawing from the wealth of material in P.L. Travers’ seven additional novels, the story will take place in Depression-era London (when the books were originally written) and follows a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, who, along with Michael’s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.”
“Mary Poppins Returns” is part of Disney’s big push to draw from its deep well of familiar, beloved stories. The studio is making live-action versions of many popular animated fairy tales, like “Beauty and the Beast” and a Cruella de Vil movie.
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What were they thinking? That’s the question you have to ask Universal and the makers of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War.”
As expected, the messy prequel-sequel to 2012’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” failed to topple Disney’s live-action “Jungle Book” from its box office throne. In fact, no one even expected an opening anywhere near the $56.2 million debut of the first “Huntsman.” Nonetheless, it was at least tracking to open with a respectable $24 million or so. And yet it couldn’t even muster a debut that big, settling instead for an estimated $20.1 million opening weekend, about what the first “Huntsman” earned in its first day.
What went wrong with Universal’s $115 million wannabe hit? Here are five reasons it failed to measure up to its predecessor.
1. No Snow White
How do you tell a Snow White story without Snow White? Granted, the whole fairytale-backstory thing has worked elsewhere, as in “Once Upon a Time” (though there are plenty of other familiar characters to latch onto when the show’s focus shifts from Ginnifer Goodwin‘s Snow White).
The “Winter’s War” filmmakers were counting on the notion that the grim fantasy world created for the first film would be interesting enough on its own without the familiar heroine or the actress who played her. Guess not. And speaking of that actress…
2. No K-Stew
The original movie came out at the height of Kristen Stewart‘s box office power, between the releases of the final two installments of “Twilight.” There’s no one in the Stewart-free cast of the current movie who can muster that kind of loyalty at the box office. Which leads to our next point…
3. A Severe Lack of Box-office Draws
Everyone loves Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, and Emily Blunt, but not necessarily enough for any one of them to carry a movie to box office victory on their own.
And poor huntsman Chris Hemsworth? Also not much of a draw in a movie that doesn’t have him wielding Thor’s hammer. No non-franchise movie he’s starred in has opened above $15 million.
4. Bad Timing
This movie suffered from three kinds of bad timing. First, it’s been four years since the original film’s release,” long enough for some viewers to have forgotten it existed. Or ever liking it. And yet, it may not have been long enough for the franchise to shake the stench of scandal that tainted “Snow White” when news broke that Stewart was having an affair with the film’s married director, Rupert Sanders.
But the worst accident of timing was opening opposite “Jungle Book,” which, in its second weekend, lost only 41 percent of last weekend’s business and earned an estimated $60.8 million. Audiences were all still too captivated by Mowgli and his CG animal pals to check out Hemsworth and friends. It’s possible that Universal thought late April was a safer, less crowded time than summer for a PG-13 special-effects blockbuster (the 2012 “Huntsman” came out the first week of June), but as the schedule-creep of recent summer movie seasons has made clear, summer starts pretty much right after spring break nowadays.
5. Even Worse Execution
With the notable exception of costume designer Colleen Atwood’s extravagant gowns, a lot of “Winter’s War” seems slapdash and hastily cobbled together, according to critics. The film amassed a mere 17 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes (woof!). During production, the film not only lost Stewart and Sanders, but also A-list screenwriters David Koepp and Frank Darabont (the latter had also been slated to direct). The credited screenwriters of “Winter’s War” are the guy who co-wrote 2014’s “Hercules” and the guy who co-wrote “Scary Movie 4.” Its first-time feature director is the special effects coordinator from the first “Huntsman.” So while the movie has impressive visuals, even fans who bought tickets weren’t overly impressed by the storytelling. They gave the movie a B+ CinemaScore, which indicates only so-so word-of-mouth.
None of this may matter, ultimately, since “Winter’s War” has already earned another $80 million overseas, where audiences for Hollywood imports seem to value dazzling visuals over dialogue and character anyway. It’s possible that the film will ultimately earn enough internationally to break even.
Stateside, however, it’s likely to limp along for another week until it (and everything else) gets clobbered by another “War” movie: Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War.” At least Thor’s not expected to show up in that one to hammer home a fatal blow to Hemsworth’s non-Marval career.
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Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel “The Girl on the Train” — which earned itself comparisons to “Gone Girl” — is coming to the big screen this October with a cast of A-listers in the lead roles.
The first trailer was just released, starring Emily Blunt as the very confused, haunted, terrified, and really just massively wrecked protagonist, Rachel. A slowed down, chilling version of Kanye West’s “Heartless” plays over the images of a woman (Haley Bennett) who goes missing — the same woman who was working as the nanny to Rachel’s (ex) husband (Justin Theroux).
In addition to Blunt (who may be on the Oscar list for this role), Bennett, and Theroux, the film stars Rebecca Ferguson, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez, Lisa Kudrow, and Laura Prepon.
Watch the trailer:
Here’s the synopsis:
“In the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.”
“The Girl on the Train” opens October 7.
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The “war” of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” is clear in this action-packed exclusive clip from the film, which comes out April 22. There’s only one line in the 45-second scene, from Emily Blunt‘s Freya, who is in full battle mode against her own sister, Queen Ravenna, played by Charlize Theron. You remember her, right? “Winter’s War” hits theaters four years after “Snow White and the Huntsman,” but it tells the story that came before that Kristen Stewart movie, bringing back Theron’s Ravenna and also the Huntsman himself, played by Chris Hemsworth.
The Huntsman is featured in this clip, along with Jessica Chastain, who plays Sara, a fellow warrior who seems like a cross between Katniss Everdeen of “The Hunger Games” and Tauriel from “The Hobbit.” As you can see in the video, which features a cool personal intro from Chastain and Hemsworth, Ravenna is a tough adversary to take down, even with multiple opponents.
Here’s the synopsis from Universal:
“Theron stars as evil Queen Ravenna, who betrays her good sister Freya (Blunt) with an unforgivable act, freezing Freya’s heart to love and unleashing in her an icy power she never knew she possessed. Retreating to a kingdom far to the north, Freya raises an army of Huntsmen as her protectors, with the only rule that no two of them should ever fall in love.
As a war for domination escalates between the two queens, the hero standing between them is Freya’s most elite Huntsman, Eric (Hemsworth). Alongside fellow warrior Sara (Chastain) —the only woman who has ever captured his heart — Eric must help Freya vanquish her sister…or Ravenna’s wickedness will rule for eternity.”
Considering this story came before “Snow White,” we know Ravenna doesn’t get vanquished, or at least stay vanquished. She’s like the Terminator, she just keeps coming back!
“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” arrives in theaters on April 22.
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Disney’s upcoming follow-up to its classic musical “Mary Poppins” may have found its titular star, with reports indicating that Emily Blunt is in negotiations for the role.
Variety has the scoop that Blunt is in talks to take the high-profile part, and is currently trying to work out scheduling. Blunt and husband John Krasinski recently confirmed that they’re expecting their second child, which could complicate filming.
The new “Poppins” project, which was announced last year, had initially been described as definitively not a direct sequel to Disney’s original 1964 flick, which was based on the books by P.L. Travers. Rather, this upcoming flick would draw from other stories in Travers’s eight-volume series, and pick up about 20 years after the first film’s action, in 1920s Depression-era London, telling additional tales of Poppins’s adventures with the Banks family. Variety’s report does call this upcoming flick a sequel, but that may be more for convenience’s sake than exact semantics.
According to the trade, Blunt “has always been the favorite” for the leading role, since she collaborated with “Poppins” director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt on 2014 musical “Into the Woods.” Disney is reportedly hoping to make a casting decision soon, so production can start promptly.
If Disney must continue its recent trend of converting all of its classics into new, live-action features, we think Blunt would be an inspired choice to pick up where the incomparable Julie Andrews left off. We’ll take this casting news with some cautious optimism and a spoonful of sugar grain of salt for now.
[via: Variety]
Photo credit: Getty Images
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John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are expanding their family: The couple just revealed that they are expecting their second child.
A rep for Blunt confirmed to Us Weekly that the actress is pregnant. Blunt had recently been spotted on the New York City set of her new film, “The Girl on the Train,” wearing an oversized coat, prompting speculation that she was expecting again. The couple didn’t reveal how far along the actress is.
Krasinski, 36, and Blunt, 32, tied the knot back in July 2010 at a ceremony in Italy, after dating for two years. They’re already parents to daughter Hazel, 23 months, who was born in February 2014.
Both actors had hinted back in August that they were eager to add to their little family, when they told Entertainment Tonight that they hoped to give Hazel a sibling someday, but “didn’t know when.” Looks like they decided to get started sooner rather than later.
Congrats to the growing family!
[via: Us Weekly]
Photo credit: Getty Images for Family Reach Foundation
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Have you read “The Girl on the Train”? It’s a quick and worthy read, and not just “worthy” because Hollywood is adapting Paula Hawkins’s best-seller with Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, and Rebecca Ferguson in lead roles.
It’s not surprising to see such a top-tier cast want to sign on for this thriller, which follows a troubled divorcée Rachel (Emily Blunt) who develops an obsession with a young couple she sees every day from her commuter train window. When she happens to see something particularly striking (or thinks she does, anyway), she inserts herself into the strangers’s lives and … well, no spoilers, but things do not go as planned.
Entertainment Weekly has a whole “first look” issue out, including two debut photos from “The Girl on the Train.” Both images show Rachel looking pretty lost and lonely:
Director Tate Taylor told EW of Rachel, “You can’t avoid the puns with this movie — she’s a train wreck.”
She’s a relatable train wreck, though, and mostly sympathetic. The movie changes the location from London to New York City, but Emily’s Rachel is still British. Tate said that just adds another layer of loneliness into a story where Rachel tries to “reclaim or redefine herself.”
The movie is scheduled for release on October 7, 2016.
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The world of “Snow White and the Huntsman” is back — minus Kristen Stewart, but plus Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain. (Upgrade?)
A title like “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” sounds so manly even Ron Swanson might approve, but the first trailer shows this is a movie all about girl power. Literally. Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron play sisters — sexy wicked sisters — and they are here to drop a magic mic on the kingdom.
Universal’s trailer starts with the question, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most powerful of them all?” and shows us Emily Blunt’s Ice Queen Freya. (Might as well just call her Elsa.) She’s a newbie to the “Huntsman” world, along with Jessica Chastain as a warrior named Sara, and they join returnees Charlize Theron as Evil Queen Ravenna, and — almost an afterthought — Chris Hemsworth as The Huntsman Eric.
Here’s the trailer:
And here’s the detailed synopsis from Universal:
Long before the evil Queen Ravenna (Theron) was thought vanquished by Snow White’s blade, she watched silently as her sister, Freya (Blunt), suffered a heartbreaking betrayal and fled their kingdom. With Freya’s ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of deadly huntsmen—including Eric (Hemsworth) and warrior Sara (Chastain)—only to find that her prized two defied her one demand: Forever harden your hearts to love.
When Freya learns of her sister’s demise, she summons her remaining soldiers to bring the Magic Mirror home to the only sorceress left who can harness its power. But once she discovers Ravenna can be resurrected from its golden depths, the wicked sisters threaten this enchanted land with twice the darkest force it’s ever seen. Now, their amassing army shall prove undefeatable…unless the banished huntsmen who broke their queen’s cardinal rule can fight their way back to one another.”
It sounds like both a prequel and a sequel to the 2012 movie. It hits theaters in April 2016.
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