Happy Gilmore 2<\/a>, the 29-years-later sequel to Adam Sandler\u2019s golf comedy, set a record on Nielsen\u2019s streaming charts for its premiere weekend. The film amassed 2.9 billion minutes of viewing time in the United States from July 25-27, the highest single-week total for a movie in the five-year history of the ratings provider\u2019s streaming charts. Happy Gilmore 2\u2019s total narrowly beat the 2.89 billion minutes for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery in the final week of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s worth noting that Glass Onion\u2019s previous record came over a full week, while Happy Gilmore 2 only needed three days to top it. The 2.9 billion minutes of watch time is equivalent to about 24.58 million complete showings of the 114-minute movie, the accepted industry standard for a streaming \u201cview.\u201d Happy Gilmore 2 had 46.7 million views worldwide for its first weekend, according to Netflix\u2019s internal data. That would mean the Nielsen-measured viewing on TV screens in the U.S. made up about 52 percent of the worldwide total.<\/p>\n
\n\tSandler and Netflix have a long-standing relationship that has produced 10 movies over the past decade. Nielsen says movies starring Sandler (including theatrical releases that later streamed on Netflix) have racked up 61 billion viewing minutes on the platform since 2018, with Murder Mystery (9.9 billion minutes) currently leading the list.<\/p>\n
\n\tNielsen\u2019s full streaming rankings for the week of July 21-27 will be released later today; this story will be updated when they\u2019re available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of Happy Gilmore to the links brought a whole lot of eyeballs to Netflix. Happy Gilmore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,17173,337,5425,2088],"class_list":{"0":"post-86716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-happy-gilmore-2","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-streaming-ratings","14":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}