'Happy Gilmore 2' debuts with 46.7 million visualizations; record as best premiere in Netflix USA

Last Friday, July 25, Netflix The sequel to comedy premiered worldwide Happy Gilmore 2 of Adam Sandler,

The film debuted at number 1 of Netflix top 10 films with a large audience number: He had 46.7 million visualizations in his first three days of availability at the streamer, with defined visualizations such as the Total hours seen divided by total duration.

This makes it The best premiere weekend in the history of a Netflix movie in the United Statesas well as In the best debut for a Sandler movie. The actor has collaborated with the streamer for the realization of other original feature films of the platform such as Murder Mysteryhis sequel Murder Myster 2, Hubie Halloweeny The Week Of.

The original film of 1996, Happy Gilmoreis also available on the platform, and is also in the top 10 of the most viewed films in different regions. In the global top 10 it is placed at number 3 with 11.4 million views.

Happy Gilmore It is one of the most popular films of Sandler's extensive filmography. The plot follows its failed hockey player with a powerful reverse coup and a volatile temperament. When Happy's grandmother, who crio, is threatened to be evicted from her house due to unpaid taxes, Happy discovers that she has a natural talent for golf, specifically to hit the ball at incredible distances. With the help of retired professional golfer Chubbs Peterson, (played by the late Carl Weathers), he decides to join the PGA Tour to earn enough money to save his grandmother's house. However, the little orthodox and aggressive play style of Happy collides with the traditional golf label, which makes it unpopular among the PGA officials and other players like McGavin, a conceited and arrogant golphist who sees Happy as a threat to his own professional aspirations.

The Universal Pictures film compiled $ 41.4 million at the global box office and remains one of the favorites of Sandler's Fandom.

The sequel, which arrives almost thirty years after the original, Happy Gilmore retires from sport and becomes an alcoholic after a terrible incident in Green. This inspires him to resume his golf sticks to finance his daughter's expensive ballet school in Paris.

Upon Sandler's return, those of Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald y Legs are posingand new faces like Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Steve Buscemi (Fargo), Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense), Benny Safdie (Oppenheimer), Benito Martínez Ocasioaka Bad Bunny (Caught Stealing), with the NFL player, Travis Kelce y Sean EvansHot One presenter, in cameos as well as Sandler's wife and children in real life – Jackie, Sunny and Sadie – join the cast.

Kyle and Wacheck (Murder Mystery) direct the script written by Sandler y Tim Herlihy.

Sandler, Herlihy, Jack Giarraputo and Robert Simonds are the producers. Dennis Dugan the director of the original, is an executive producer together with Judit Maull, Kevin Gray, David Baush and Barry Bernardi.