Happy Madison Productions

Happy Madison Productions is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company. It deals with production of movies and television programs. It was founded by actor and comedian Adam Sandler on December 10, 1999. Sandler is also the CEO and co-owner of Happy Madison, with Jack Giarraputo. The company was named after Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, two movies starring Sandler. The man on the logo of the company is Sandler's father, Stanley, who says the word "Terrific".^[1]

Happy Madison Productions

Company type	private company
Industry	entertainment media industry
Genre	comedy movies
Founded	December 10, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-12-10)
Founder	Adam Sandler
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Key people	Adam Sandler (founder and CEO) Allen Covert Jack Giarraputo (president) Tim Herlihy Heather Parry Scott Sandler Barry Bernardi Steve Koren Mark O'Keefe Seth Gordon Timothy Dowling
Products	movies and television programs
Owner	Adam Sandler
Parent	Happy Madison, Inc.
Subsidiaries	Madison 23 Productions Scary Madison Productions
Website	adamsandler.com (archive)

The company used to be headquartered in the Judy Garland Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. Happy Madison's parent company is Happy Madison Inc. The parent company is headed by Scott, the brother of Adam Sandler, and is based in Manchester, New Hampshire.^[2]

List of Happy Madison's productions

Films

• 1999: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
• 2000: Little Nicky
• 2001: Joe Dirt
• 2001: The Animal
• 2002: Mr. Deeds
• 2002: The Master of Disguise
• 2002: Eight Crazy Nights
• 2002: The Hot Chick
• 2003: Anger Management
• 2003: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
• 2004: 50 First Dates
• 2005: The Longest Yard
• 2005: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
• 2006: Grandma's Boy
• 2006: The Benchwarmers
• 2006: Click
• 2007: Reign Over Me (as Madison 23 Productions)
• 2007: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
• 2008: Strange Wilderness
• 2008: You Don't Mess with the Zohan
• 2008: The House Bunny
• 2008: Bedtime Stories
• 2009: Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• 2009: Funny People (as Madison 23 Productions)
• 2009: The Shortcut (as Scary Madison Productions)
• 2010: Grown Ups
• 2011: Just Go with It
• 2011: Zookeeper
• 2011: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
• 2011: Jack and Jill
• 2012: That's My Boy
• 2012: Here Comes the Boom
• 2013: Grown Ups 2^[3]
• 2014: Blended^[4][5]
• 2015: Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2^[6]
• 2015: Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser^[7]
• 2015: Pixels^[8][9]
• 2015: The Ridiculous 6
• 2016: The Do-Over
• 2017: Sandy Wexler
• 2018: The Week Of
• 2018: Father of the Year^[10]
• 2018: 100% Fresh
• 2019: Murder Mystery
• 2020: The Wrong Missy^[11]
• 2020: Hubie Halloween
• 2022: Hustle^[12]

TV series

• 2007–2013: Rules of Engagement (co-production with Game Six Productions, CBS Television Studios and Sony Pictures Television)
• 2008: The Gong Show with Dave Attell
• 2010–2011: Nick Swardson's Pretend Time (co-production with Culver Entertainment)
• 2011–2012: Breaking In (co-production with Adam F. Goldberg Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
• 2013–present: The Goldbergs (co-production with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Doug Robinson Productions (season 5–present) and Sony Pictures Television)
• 2017: Imaginary Mary (co-production with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, ABC Studios and Sony Pictures Television)^[13]
• 2019–2020: Schooled (co-production with Adam F. Goldberg Productions, Marc Firek Productions, Doug Robinson Productions, ABC Studios and Sony Pictures Television)

Critical reception

Most of the studio's movies received negative reactions from critics.^{[14][15][16][17]} Four of them are considered some of the worst movies of all time. Two of those were rated 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.^[18][19]