Happy Madison Productions


Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1999 by Adam Sandler 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 also says the accompanying audio, "Terrific."
In addition to various Sandler-produced films, the company has also released films produced by others, such as Steven Brill, Dennis Dugan, Frank Coraci, Fred Wolf, Tom Brady, Peter Segal, and Nicholaus Goossen.
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 office is located in the Judy Garland Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City while its corporate and parent company offices are located in Manchester, New Hampshire run by Adam's brother Scott.

Filmography

Critical reception

Happy Madison's films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The production company has put out four films considered to be some of the worst ever made, including three that have received a 0% score from Rotten Tomatoes.
YearFilmRotten
Tomatoes		Metacritic
1999'22%30
2000Little Nicky22%38
2001Joe Dirt11%20
2001The Animal30%43
2002Mr. Deeds22%24
2002The Master of Disguise1%12
2002Eight Crazy Nights12%23
2002The Hot Chick22%29
2003Anger Management42%52
2003'22%36
200450 First Dates45%48
2005The Longest Yard31%48
2005'9%23
2006Grandma's Boy16%33
2006The Benchwarmers11%25
2006Click33%45
2007Reign Over Me64%61
2007I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry14%37
2008Strange Wilderness2%12
2008You Don't Mess with the Zohan37%54
2008The House Bunny43%55
2008Bedtime Stories26%33
2009'33%39
2009Funny People68%60
2009The ShortcutN/AN/A
2010Grown Ups10%30
2011Just Go with It19%33
2011Zookeeper14%30
2011'0%9
2011Jack and Jill3%23
2012That's My Boy20%31
2012Here Comes the Boom40%40
2013Grown Ups 27%19
2014Blended14%31
2015'5%14
201510%N/A
2015Pixels16%27
2015The Ridiculous 60%18
2016The Do-Over10%22
2017Sandy Wexler27%39
2018The Week Of27%41
2018Father of the Year0%N/A
2018100% Fresh90%N/A
2019Murder Mystery44%38
2020The Wrong Missy31%35

Television