Happy Gilmore 2 Secures Biggest U.S. Opening Weekend of All Time for a Netflix Film, KPop Demon Hunters Now the Most Popular Netflix Animated Film of All Time

Happy Gilmore 2 has secured the biggest U.S. play opening for a Netflix movie of each time, with KPop Demon Hunters present the most-watched animated movie of each clip connected the streamer.

The Adam Sandler sequel has accrued implicit 46.7 cardinal views successful its archetypal 3 days of release, which means it had the astir palmy play for a Sandler movie connected the streamer frankincense acold — and that’s saying a lot, considering that the comic has made respective movies for the workplace implicit the years. But KPop Demon Hunters, which was released connected June 20, isn’t backing down from each of these milestones without a combat connected the charts.

In fact, the movie has go the astir watched animated movie of each clip connected Netflix and adjacent achieved what the streamer calls a “new viewing peak” successful its 5th week connected the platform. This week successful particular, KPop Demon Hunters came successful with an awesome 26.3 cardinal views, but inactive importantly shorter than what Sandler’s latest is bringing to the table.

That said, some films look to beryllium doing incredibly good for the level and are a deed with audiences, truthful it’s wide they volition some proceed to bash numbers and possibly adjacent interruption immoderate much records for the streamer.

Happy Gilmore 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the 1996 drama that follows a wacky hockey subordinate who tries his manus astatine play to prevention his grandmother’s repossessed home. Sandler people returns successful the titular role, but Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller, Dennis Dugan, and Kevin Nealon besides reprise their parts from the archetypal film.

KPop Demon Hunters is simply a caller animated philharmonic phantasy movie that follows KPop miss radical Huntr/x, who sing by time and hunt demons by night. Lost alums Daniel Dae Kim and Yujin Kim, beloved comic Ken Jeong, and Teen Wolf alum Arden Cho prima successful the dependable formed alongside respective fantabulous South Korean actors and singers.

Both Happy Gilmore 2 and KPop Demon Hunters are present disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.