Pack your bags, football fans! OutKick is sending one lucky winner and a friend to Athens for Georgia vs. Alabama. Travel\u2019s on us, VIP tickets in hand, and bragging rights for life. Enter Now!<\/a><\/p>\n For emphasis, the film spent an average of $2.38 million per day while shooting. With the movie being 1 hour and 58 minutes long, that’s an average of $1.29 million spent per minute on the final product.<\/p>\n It’s worth mentioning that the $152.5 million did include $1.2 million spent on lodging and another $6.4 million on hiring extras for scenes, but that doesn’t exactly soften the blow.<\/p>\n ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ spent A LOT of money. (Photo by Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n The original \u2018Happy Gilmore\u2019 had a budget of just $12 million. While the first film was released in 1996, even if you account for inflation, that $12 million would have \u2018only\u2019 been worth about $24.7 million in today’s world.<\/p>\n Julie Bowen Forgot How Important Her ‘Happy Gilmore’ Role Was & Thought She Would Be Replaced In Sequel<\/a><\/p>\n According to North Jersey<\/a>, the straight-to-Netflix<\/a> flick was filmed in 31 New Jersey municipalities across nine different counties, with the golf venues being Hackettstown and Closter Golf Center, Alpine Country Club, and Farmview Golf Center.<\/p>\n As mind-blowing as the film’s budget is, so too are the viewership numbers.<\/p>\n After being released on July 25, \u2018Happy Gilmore 2\u2019 generated 46.7 million viewers over three days, with views defined as total hours watched divided by the total runtime. This makes Sandler’s film the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix film.<\/p>\n![\"Adam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-2027900597.jpg\")
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