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".

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.

### 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_
- 2014: _Blended_
- 2015: _Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2_
- 2015: _Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser_
- 2015: _Pixels_
- 2015: _The Ridiculous 6_
- 2016: _The Do-Over_
- 2017: _Sandy Wexler_
- 2018: _The Week Of_
- 2018: _Father of the Year_
- 2018: _100% Fresh_
- 2019: _Murder Mystery_
- 2020: _The Wrong Missy_
- 2020: _Hubie Halloween_
- 2022: _Hustle_

### 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)
- 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. Four of them are considered some of the worst movies of all time. Two of those were rated 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

## Other websites

- Official website of Happy Madison on Adam Sandler's page
- Happy Madison Productions at IMDb

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Happy Madison Productions

- **logo**: Happy-Madison-Productions-logo.png
- **type**: private company
- **industry**: entertainment
media industry
- **genre**: comedy movies
- **founder**: Adam Sandler
- **owner**: Adam Sandler
- **parent**: Happy Madison, Inc.
- **key people**: Adam Sandler <small>(founder and Chief executive officer, CEO)</small>
Allen Covert
Jack Giarraputo <small>(president)</small>
Tim Herlihy
Heather Parry
Scott Sandler
Barry Bernardi
Steve Koren
Mark O'Keefe
Seth Gordon
Timothy Dowling
- **location**: Los Angeles, California, United States, U.S.
- **products**: movies and television programs
- **subsid**: Madison 23 Productions
Scary Madison Productions
- **homepage**: [https://web.archive.org/web/20051118222008/http://www.adamsandler.com/index.php?section=happy adamsandler.com] (archive)