'Happy Gilmore 2' Smashed This Netflix Record With Its Debut first appeared on Parade on Jul 29, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.

“Happy Gilmore 2” launched on the streamer on July 25. For the week of July 21 through 27, the film generated 46.7 million views, with a view defined as total hours watched divided by the total runtime. That makes this start the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix film, as well as the best ever for one of Sandler’s movies.

Netflix hasn’t exactly been known for its blockbuster straight-to-streaming films in the past, but it is flipping the script with Happy Gilmore 2. Adam Sandler’s sequel to the 1996 original shattered an opening weekend record for Netflix,