Doug Robinson who, via his longtime partnership with Adam Sandler, had run Happy Madison’s television operation for over a decade, is striking out on his own. Robinson is launching DRP Doug Robinson Productions, which will be be based at Sony Pictures TV with a four-year overall deal. Under the pact, Robinson will be…

Years ago, Wendi McLendon-Covey was a floundering twentysomething working at what she has described as “a crappy hotel near Disneyland” where an old nightstand served as her desk, complete with a typewriter. Now The Goldbergs star will tap into her experiences for a comedy series project, which has landed at ABC with…

Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison Productions are set to make an untitled family animated project at STX Entertainment. The Saturday Night Live alum has a long-standing working relationship with STX chairman and CEO Robert Simonds; together they’ve made eight films with Sandler in the lead role: Airheads, Billy Madis…

The Do-Over Adam Sandler’s second film as part of his four picture deal with Netflix, will premiere Friday, May 27 the streaming service has announced. Along with the premiere date, the action comedy’s first teaser also dropped, and you can watch it here now. The film sees Adam Sandler and David Spade as a pair of…

HBO has put in development Bastards, a drama based on the Israeli series Nevelot. The project, from Sony TV, studio-based Happy Madison and Alan Poul’s Boku Films, is being written by playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins (Appropriate), with Poul attached to direct under his overall deal at HBO. Described as a thriller…

The first film in Adam Sandler’s four picture deal with Netflix is set to ride into town December 11, and so it goes that Netflix has released the official trailer for The Ridiculous Six. Charting territory similar to Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways To Die In The West, the comedy Western aims to satirize Western…

ABC has put in development a half-hour comedy series that would serve as a sequel to the 1997 feature My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts. Oscar-winning scribe Ron Bass (Rain Man), who wrote the feature screenplay, will co-write the pilot with Jessica Amento. Bass also will executive produce with Happy Mad…

Adam Sandler and Doug Robinson's Happy Madison is extending its relationship with Sony Pictures TV, signing a new three-year overall deal. Under the most recent pact, the company has set up 8 comedy projects at the broadcast networks, including What Up Wahlbergs, inspired by the Wahlberg brothers as kids growing up…

EXCLUSIVE: Days after Adam Sandler and Happy Madison broke new ground with a four-picture Netflix deal, his pal David Spade and Happy Madison are making Joe Dirt 2 as the first digital sequel to a major studio film. The film is being done with Sony-based Crackle. Spade returns as the mullet-sporting moron title…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing Real Genius, a single-camera comedy based on the 1985 movie starring Val Kilmer. The project, which has received a script commitment plus penalty, hails from Sony TV, whose sibling label TriStar Pictures produced the movie; Adam Sandler’s Sony-based company Happy Madison; and 3 Arts…

EXCLUSIVE: This week, Jack Giarraputo has been telling associates at studios like Sony and Paramount that he will retire after he finishes producing the Warner Bros comedy Blended, and after that the Chris Columbus-directed Pixels for Sony. The 46-year old Giarraputo has been Adam Sandler‘s partner in Happy Madison…

CBS has put in development On The Fence, a half-hour project from Sony Pictures TV and studio-based Happy Madison. Written by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley, the comedy explores the shifting dynamic in a group of friends as they navigate their late twenties from different ends of the relationship spectrum. Happy Madis…