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• The big-screen adaptation of the best-selling novel The Devil Wears Prada was released on June 30, 2006, and became one of the biggest hits of that summer. The film is based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel, allegedly based on Weisberger's experiences working as an intern for Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

• Fast Facts

  1. Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt
  2. U.S. release date: June 30, 2006
  3. Director: David Frankel
  4. Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKenna
  5. Many of the filmmakers had worked together on the series Sex and the City
  6. Budget: $35 million
  7. Highest-grossing film of Meryl Streep's career

• Background

  The manuscript for Devil Wears Prada was sent around Hollywood before the book was even published. The rights were sold in under one minute. A variety of screenwriters attempted to adapt the script before the version of Aline Brosh McKenna was chosen by producers; she is the only credit screenwriter on the finished film, and was the first woman asked to contribute.

  The character of cruel, demanding editor Miranda Priestly (the one supposedly based on Wintour) was toned down in the screenplay, only to be made meaner again at the insistence of star Meryl Streep. (A number of other actresses had declined the role, for fear of upsetting Wintour).

  The film was shot from October and December of 2005 and released in the summer of the following year. The film made $27 million in its opening weekend, and eventually made a worldwide gross of $325 million worldwide.

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  Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Adrian Grenier | Anna Wintour | Vogue

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