\n\tThe return of Happy Gilmore to the links brought a whole lot of eyeballs to Netflix.<\/p>\n
\n\tHappy 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 2.89 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 \u2014\u00a02.893 billion, to be precise \u2014\u00a0narrowly beat the 2.889 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\tHappy Gilmore 2 wasn\u2019t the only movie with a big number for the week of July 21-27. Kpop Demon Hunters<\/a> hit another high in its sixth week on the Nielsen charts, crossing the billion-minute mark (1.03 billion) for the first time. <\/p>\n \n\tOn the series side, Netflix\u2019s drama Untamed<\/a> held up very well in its second week with 2.03 billion viewing minutes \u2014 down just 3.5 percent from its premiere a week earlier<\/a>. The Hunting Wives<\/a> also had a strong opening for Netflix, drawing 1.36 billion minutes of watch time. <\/p>\n \n\tWith a new season debuting on Comedy Central, South Park\u2019s library re-entered the charts with 654 million minutes on HBO Max \u2014\u00a0though as part of a huge new deal<\/a> with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, that library has since moved to Paramount+. Family Guy, on the other hand, fell off the acquired series top 10 for the first time since March 2024, a span of 69 weeks.<\/p>\n