Excitement was running high when Happy Gilmore 2 was released on the Netflix platform.
We know that the film broke the record for most views after three days, with over 46.7 million, but that’s not all.
According to Nielsen Streaming, theAdam Sandler comedy, released on July 25, was the most-watched film during the week of July 21-27, with over 2.9 billion viewing minutes. In fact, almost a month after its release, Happy Gilmore 2 is still one of the platform’s top-10 most popular films.
Adam Sandler's "Happy Gilmore 2" earned 2.9 billion viewing minutes during its opening weekend, per Nielsen.
That's the largest single-week viewing total for a movie in the history of Nielsen's streaming top 10. The previous record was "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," which… pic.twitter.com/pVQW65DUSK
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This is a record for the most viewers in a single week on Netflix, beating the mark set by Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which achieved 2.2 billion minutes in December 2023.
Happy Gilmore 2 was also the best debut on Netflix for an Adam Sandler film. Again according to Nielsen, Adam Sandler’s projects have accumulated around 61 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix.
A Birdie for the 58-year-old actor!