Sandler and co-writer Tim Herlihy tell The Hollywood Reporter about the project landing Netflix's biggest U.S. film debut and the possibility of more sequels for the star's movies after its success: "This throws it open.

“Happy Gilmore 2” launched on the streamer on July 25. For the week of July 21 through 27, the film generated 46.7 million views, with a view defined as total hours watched divided by the total runtime. That makes this start the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix film, as well as the best ever for one of Sandler’s movies.

Happy Gilmore 2 saw Sandler revisit popular territory as part of his mega deal with the streamer, reportedly worth $250million (£186m) and renewed multiple times. And Netflix will be seeing this as money very well spent after the golfing comedy sequel amassed a huge 46,