Happy Madison Productions

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Happy Madison Productions, Inc.
Private
Industry Production company
Founded December 10, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-12-10)
Founder Adam Sandler
Headquarters <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Key people
 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Owners Adam Sandler
Jack Giarraputo
Parent Happy Madison, Inc.

Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1999 by Adam Sandler,[1][2][3] which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both produced by Robert Simonds, written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The elderly man depicted in the production logo is Sandler's late father, Stanley (who died in 2003), who voices the accompanying audio, "Terrific".[4]

In addition to various Sandler-produced films, the company has also released films produced by others, such as Steven Brill (Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds), Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2), Frank Coraci (Click, Zookeeper, Blended), Fred Wolf (Strange Wilderness, The House Bunny), Tom Brady (The Animal, The Hot Chick, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star), Peter Segal (Anger Management, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard), and Nicholaus Goossen (A Day with the Meatball, Grandma's Boy, The Shortcut).

The 1998 films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandler's movie career and production company. He produced The Waterboy and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The film was extremely profitable, earning over $160 million in the United States alone and made Sandler a successful actor with The Waterboy becoming his second $100 million film in a year, along with The Wedding Singer.

The company's production offices were formerly located in the Judy Garland Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City but the company left after completion of Sandler's final contracted film for the studio, Pixels. Happy Madison, Inc. the parent company of Happy Madison Productions is run by Adam Sandler's brother Scott and is located in Manchester, New Hampshire.[5]

Its subsidiary Madison 23 Productions, was aimed towards the drama genre. It only produced two films Reign Over Me and Funny People, which both starred Sandler himself. Another subsidiary was Scary Madison Productions, which was aimed towards the horror genre and only produced the film The Shortcut.

Happy Madison Productions's title card (2005–present)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Budget Gross
(worldwide)		 Notes Ref.
1999 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Mike Mitchell $17 million $92.9 million with Out of the Blue... Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures
2000 Little Nicky Steven Brill $85 million $58.3 million with The Robert Simonds Company
2001 Joe Dirt Dennie Gordon $17.7 million $31 million with Robert Simonds Productions and Columbia Pictures
The Animal Luke Greenfield $47 million $84.8 million with Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures
2002 Mr. Deeds Steven Brill $50 million $171.3 million with Out of the Blue... Entertainment, New Line Cinema, and Columbia Pictures
The Master of Disguise Perry Andelin Blake $16 million $43.4 million with Revolution Studios
Eight Crazy Nights Seth Kearsley $34 million $23.8 million with Columbia Pictures
The Hot Chick Tom Brady $34 million $54.6 million with Touchstone Pictures
2003 Anger Management Peter Segal $75 million $195.7 million with Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Sam Weisman $17 million $23.8 million
2004 50 First Dates Peter Segal $75 million $198.5 million with Flower Films, Anonymous Content, and Columbia Pictures
2005 The Longest Yard $90 million $191.5 million with Callahan Filmworks, MTV Films, Paramount Pictures, and Columbia Pictures
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Mike Bigelow $22 million $45.1 million with Out of the Blue... Entertainment and Columbia Pictures
2006 Grandma's Boy Nicholaus Goossen $5 million $6.6 million with Level 1 Entertainment
The Benchwarmers Dennis Dugan $33 million $65 million with Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures
Click Frank Coraci $82.5 million $240.7 million with Original Film, Revolution Studios, and Columbia Pictures
2007 Reign Over Me Mike Binder $20 million $22.2 million with Sunlight Productions, Relativity Media, and Columbia Pictures
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Dennis Dugan $85 million $187.1 million with Shady Acres Entertainment and Relativity Media
2008 Strange Wilderness Fred Wolf $20 million $6.9 million with Level 1 Entertainment
You Don't Mess with the Zohan Dennis Dugan $90 million $204.3 million with Smigel/Dugan Productions, Relativity Media, and Columbia Pictures
The House Bunny Fred Wolf $25 million $70.4 million with Alta Loma Entertainment, Relativity Media, and Columbia Pictures
Bedtime Stories Adam Shankman $80 million $212.9 million with Gunn Films, Conman & Izzy Productions, Offspring Entertainment, and Walt Disney Pictures
2009 Paul Blart: Mall Cop Steve Carr $26 million $183.3 million with Relativity Media and Columbia Pictures
Funny People Judd Apatow $75 million $71.6 million with Apatow Productions, Relativity Media, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures
The Shortcut Nicholaus Goossen $1 million N/A with Leomax
2010 Grown Ups Dennis Dugan $80 million $271.4 million with Relativity Media and Columbia Pictures
2011 Just Go with It $80 million $215 million with Columbia Pictures
Zookeeper Frank Coraci $80 million $169.8 million with Broken Road Productions, Hey Eddie Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Columbia Pictures
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Tom Brady $10 million $2.5 million with Miles Deep Productions and Columbia Pictures
Jack and Jill Dennis Dugan $79 million $149 million with Broken Road Productions and Columbia Pictures
2012 That's My Boy Sean Anders $70 million $57.7 million with Relativity Media and Columbia Pictures
Here Comes the Boom Frank Coraci $42 million $73.1 million with Broken Road Productions, Hey Eddie Productions, and Columbia Pictures
2013 Grown Ups 2 Dennis Dugan $80 million $247 million with Columbia Pictures [6]
2014 Blended Frank Coraci $40 million $128 million with Gulfstream Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment [7]
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Andy Fickman $30 million $107.6 million with Broken Road Productions, Hey Eddie Productions, LStar Capital, and Columbia Pictures [8]
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser Fred Wolf $3.7 million N/A [9]
Pixels Chris Columbus $88 million $244.9 million with 1492 Pictures, LStar Capital, China Film Group Corporation, Film Croppers Entertainment, and Columbia Pictures [10]
The Ridiculous 6 Frank Coraci $60 million N/A
2016 The Do-Over Steven Brill $40 million N/A
2017 Sandy Wexler $24.3 million N/A
2018 The Week Of Robert Smigel N/A N/A
Father of the Year Tyler Spindel N/A N/A [11]
100% Fresh Steven Brill N/A N/A
2019 Murder Mystery Kyle Newacheck N/A N/A with Vinson Films, Endgame Entertainment, Mythology Entertainment, Denver and Delilah Productions, and Tower Hill Entertainment
2020 The Wrong Missy Tyler Spindel N/A N/A [12]
Hubie Halloween Steven Brill N/A N/A
2022 Home Team Charles Kinnane
Daniel Kinnane		 N/A N/A
Hustle Jeremiah Zagar $21 million N/A with Roth/Kirschenbaum Films and SpringHill Company [13]
2023 The Out-Laws Tyler Spindel N/A N/A [14]
Spaceman Johan Renck TBA TBA with Free Association and Tango Entertainment
TBA Murder Mystery 2 Jeremy Garelick TBA TBA with Echo Films, Mythology Entertainment, Vinson Films, and Endgame Entertainment [15]
You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah Sammi Cohen TBA TBA [16]

Television

Year Title Network Notes Ref.
2007–2013 Rules of Engagement CBS with Game Six Productions, CBS Television Studios, and Sony Pictures Television
2008 The Gong Show with Dave Attell Comedy Central with Sony Pictures Television
2010–2011 Nick Swardson's Pretend Time Comedy Central with Culver Entertainment
2011–2012 Breaking In Fox with Adam F. Goldberg Productions and Sony Pictures Television
2013–present The Goldbergs ABC with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Doug Robinson Productions (season 5–present), Swinging Cricket Productions (season 9), Script L. Shannon, Inc. (season 9), This Episode is Entirely a Work of Fiction, LLC (season 10–present), and Sony Pictures Television
2017 Imaginary Mary ABC with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, ABC Studios, and Sony Pictures Television [17]
2019–2020 Schooled ABC with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Marc Firek Productions, Doug Robinson Productions, ABC Studios, and Sony Pictures Television

Critical reception

Happy Madison's films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews, while some drama films (Reign Over Me and Funny People) received mixed-to-positive from critics, with Sandler's performance garnered critical praise. The production company has put out four films considered to be some of the worst ever made, including two that have received a 0% score from Rotten Tomatoes.[18][19][20][21]

Year Film Rotten
Tomatoes		 Metacritic
1999 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 22% 30
2000 Little Nicky 22% 38
2001 Joe Dirt 11% 20
2001 The Animal 30% 43
2002 Mr. Deeds 22% 24
2002 The Master of Disguise 1% 12
2002 Eight Crazy Nights 12% 23
2002 The Hot Chick 22% 29
2003 Anger Management 42% 52
2003 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star 22% 36
2004 50 First Dates 45% 48
2005 The Longest Yard 31% 48
2005 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 9% 23
2006 Grandma's Boy 16% 33
2006 The Benchwarmers 11% 25
2006 Click 33% 45
2007 Reign Over Me 64% 61
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry 14% 37
2008 Strange Wilderness 2% 12
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan 37% 54
2008 The House Bunny 43% 55
2008 Bedtime Stories 26% 33
2009 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 33% 39
2009 Funny People 69% 60
2009 The Shortcut N/A N/A
2010 Grown Ups 10% 30
2011 Just Go with It 19% 33
2011 Zookeeper 14% 30
2011 Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star 3% 9
2011 Jack and Jill 3% 23
2012 That's My Boy 20% 31
2012 Here Comes the Boom 40% 40
2013 Grown Ups 2 7% 19
2014 Blended 14% 31
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 5% 14
2015 Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser 10% N/A
2015 Pixels 17% 27
2015 The Ridiculous 6 0% 18
2016 The Do-Over 10% 22
2017 Sandy Wexler 27% 39
2018 The Week Of 27% 41
2018 Father of the Year 0% N/A
2018 100% Fresh 90% N/A
2019 Murder Mystery 45% 38
2020 The Wrong Missy 31% 35
2020 Hubie Halloween 52% 53
2022 Home Team 22% 23
2022 Hustle 92% 68
2023 The Out-Laws TBA TBA
2023 Spaceman TBA TBA
TBA Murder Mystery 2 TBA TBA
TBA You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah TBA TBA

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State Corporate Information for Happy Madison, Inc.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Happy_Madison_Productions&oldid=726638309"