Netflix paid a ridiculous amount of money for Happy Gilmore 2

Nearly 30 years after the original movie helped to strengthen Adam Sandler as a cinematic comedian, “Happy Gilmore 2” has a somewhat healthy tour on Netflix. It was released in July, and it was high in the list of the 10 best charts of TREAMER since its release, and even got the highest weekly scenes in the history of the 10 best categories in Nielsen (across Wrapping). It seems to make it apparently automatic. However, the film’s budget was recently unveiled, adding a largely huge stars.

according to New Jersey Business MagazineNetflix spent $ 152.5 million on production, which was filmed throughout New Jersey. It was previously believed that director Kyle Newchik was much cheaper. This is the number of eye wolves, but it also requires a lot of context before we can start answering all “was it worth it” from the conversation.

This number comes from the New Jersey Photo and Television Committee, and most importantly, “Happy Gilmore 2” is qualified for the Film Credit Program for Economic Development Tax in New Jersey. Governments usually use these tax credit programs to lure films. That is why Marvel Studios is photographing many projects (such as “ANT-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania”) in the UK late. More than that, Njeda needs accurate numbers to grant Netflix the acquired tax credit, so that it is 152.5 million dollars.

Without entering into the peculiarities and generalities of the tax credit system for production, it mainly helps in studios. according to Nj.govThe state offers qualified productions between 30 % and 35 %. If the long -awaited Sandler supplement, which is set with stars, is able to compensate for this budget by 30 %, which will reduce it to about 107 million dollars. If it is closer to 35 %, this number decreases to about $ 99 million. This also does not represent any marketing costs, nor does it represent any money spent Netflix outside New Jersey on production.

Even in the generous and low end of the spectrum, $ 100 million is a huge amount of money to spend on a broad comedy, especially when we consider that the original “Happy Gilmore” costs only $ 12 million. Until it was modified for inflation, this will only be about $ 25 million in dollars today. But Netflix made $ 37.5 billion in revenue last yearSo she has money to spend. However, we must now get used to the question: Was it worth it?

On broadcasting, this is always a complicated question because the only measure we must really continue is the scene. As of the writing of these lines, “Happy Gilmore 2” spent four weeks in the top ten in Sturner, exceeding 100 million hours of viewing, Despite many bad reviews. This is anywhere near the top 10 time of Netflix, which will require the passage of “girl” (253 million hours). We are talking, “KPOP Demon Hunters” is about to become the most watched Netflix movie With much lower strength than stars on a similar investment.

But Sandler flourished on Netflix, while performing his films regularly very well on the service. Since the comedy struggled to stay related to the box office, the actor found a house when broadcasting. To this end, the stars like Sandler will usually get pieces of box office in a theatrical movie. But since Netflix and other signs do not pay much through royaltiesThis means that everyone needs payment in advance, which leads to a significant exaggeration of cost. Not only Sandler, but everyone else on the huge Sequel team, including everyone from Benny Safde to the golf player John Dali. This does not come cheap.

The only people who can really tell us if this deserves all of this will be the executives of Netflix. However, what we can say is that at least this investment led to great success, which never guarantees it. Just take a look at “Heart of Stone”, which is the Gal Gadot Netflix dust that was badly reviewed (Someone may not have heard many people), which costs $ 150 million. Or an expensive Netflix bets on an equal footing such as “Red Notice” and “The Gray Man”, and neither of them has not yet received the completion that you promised at some point. Through this lens, Netflix will surely be called this success, despite the eye price sign.

“Happy Gilmore 2” now flows on Netflix.