<P> 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 . But in an interview with Barbara Walters that aired the day the DVD was released, she called the film "really entertaining" and said she appreciated the "decisive" nature of Streep's portrayal . "Anything that makes fashion entertaining and glamorous and interesting is wonderful for our industry . So I was 100 percent behind it ." Streep said Wintour was "probably more upset by the book than the film". Wintour's popularity skyrocketed after her portrayal in The Devil Wears Prada . 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: "Unfortunately you don't have enough women in power, or at least I don't know them, to copy ." </P> <P> Weisberger's novel had been translated into 37 different languages, giving the movie a strong potential foreign audience . The international box office would ultimately deliver 60% of the film's gross . "We did our European premiere at the Venice Film Festival", Gabler says, where the city's gondoliers wore red T - shirts with the film's logo . "So many people around the world were captivated by the glossy fashion world . It was sexy and international ." </P> <P> The Devil Wears Prada topped the charts on its first major European release weekend on October 9, after a strong September Oceania and Latin America opening . It would be the highest - grossing film that weekend in Britain, Spain and Russia, taking in $41.5 million overall . Continued strong weekends as it opened across the rest of Europe helped it remain atop the overseas charts for the rest of the month . By the end of the year only its Chinese opening remained; it was released there at the end of February 2007 and took in $2.4 million . </P> <P> The greatest portion of the $201.8 million total international box office came from the United Kingdom, with $26.5 million . Germany was next with $23.1 million, followed by Italy at $19.3 million and France at $17.9 million . Outside Europe, Japanese box office was the highest at $14.6 million, followed by Australia at $12.6 million . </P>

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