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Perth Now
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Bad Bunny teases his movie future following Happy Gilmore 2
Bad Bunny wants to star in more movies following Happy Gilmore 2. The 31-year-old rapper joined Adam Sandler, 58, for the 2025 comedy flick, and Bad Bunny has now revealed he is hoping to 'explore different genres' in film. Speaking to E! News, he said: 'I hope to keep doing comedy, but also, I am hoping to explore different genres, like drama … keep doing action, like Bullet Train.' Bad Bunny - whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio - was showered with praise by his Happy Gilmore 2 co-star Sandler, who led the Netflix movie as the titular golfer. He gushed: '[Bad Bunny] is just in it. They call 'action' and Benito is ready to go, and stays focused and was the guy he wanted to be the whole time.' Happy Gilmore 2 - which is the sequel to the beloved 1996 comedy movie Happy Gilmore - follows the retired hockey player-turned-golf legend as he returns to the green to mentor a hot-headed new prodigy. When an old rival resurfaces, Happy must reclaim his swing and his spirit to save the game he loves. Looking to the future, Sandler admitted he had 'never even thought of' making a third Happy Gilmore movie, though insisted he had also never considered Happy Gilmore 2 being a possibility either. When asked if a third Happy Gilmore film was on the table, Sandler said: 'I never even thought of that. But I never thought of Happy Gilmore 2 either, so we'll see.' The Grown Ups star previously admitted it was constant fan pressure that had led to him getting the ball rolling on Happy Gilmore 2. During an appearance on Good Morning America, Sandler said: 'When I walk[ed] down the street a lot of times people [would] say, 'You ever gonna do Happy Gilmore 2?' 'And for 28 years, I was like, 'What are you talking about? No.' And then all of a sudden, I was like, 'Maybe' ... people kept asking. And then it just felt right.' Happy Gilmore 2 also stars Ben Stiller as Hal L., Christopher McDonald, as Shooter McGavin, Julie Bowen as Virginia Venit and NFL star Travis Kelce as a hotel employee. When asked about the wide-ranging cast, Sandler said: 'I don't know how it happened. We wrote 'em stuff and everybody was kind enough to come. And everybody in it did a great job. 'Every day someone cool would show up and we'd hang out.'
Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Adam Sandler's major reinvention from cheeky chap to Hollywood's biggest earner
There is no denying that Adam Sandler has had one of the biggest reinventions in Hollywood, transforming his career from a few small roles into the undisputed king of comedy. The 58-year-old is undoubtedly one of busiest stars around, having made his screen debut in the 80s, and is still working tirelessly today. On Friday, he is set to bring a beloved character back to our screens once again in the Happy Gilmore 2 sequel, leading the star-studded cast alongside Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald and Ben Stiller, with appearances from Travis Kelce and Bad Bunny. But how did the Brooklyn-born actor, who made us all laugh in Just Go With It, Big Daddy and Grown Ups, turn laughter into a multi-million-dollar deal with Netflix? Adam began his career in stand-up before making the transition over to the small screen, with his TV debut as Smitty in a handful of episodes on the Cosby show in 1987. From there, he landed a string of film roles in movies including Going Overboard and Coneheads, before becoming a regular on Saturday Night Live between 1990 – 1995. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video He also starred in and wrote Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, as well as showcasing his talents in Big Daddy, Little Nicky, The Hot Chick, 50 First Dates and many more. Over the last few years, he has juggled his regular comedies in with some more serious roles, including Uncut Gems, Hustle and Spaceman, and is set to star opposite Laura Dern and George Clooney in Jay Kelly very soon. In 2014, his Happy Madison company took a huge step and signed a massive deal with Netflix, worth $250million, to produce films for the streaming service, including The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over and his Murder Mystery movies. He also headlined two Netflix stand-up specials, 100% Fresh and I Love You. The lucrative partnership with the streaming services has been extended twice so far and, according to the Telegraph, in 2020, Netflix bosses claimed that subscribers had spent more than two billion hours watching his films. This has all helped to cement his status as one of the biggest stars of our time. Forbes reports that he was the 9th highest paid actor for 2024 – after topping the annual list the previous year – and earned a whopping $26m. Considering he has two huge projects coming out this year and a reported net worth of around $440m, we predict more appearances in the Forbes list in his future… While Adam has remained booked and busy in the decades since his career began, he has also gone above and beyond to help out his peers in the industry, giving pals roles and cameos in whatever project he was working on. In fact, members of his circle have become his most regular co-stars, with Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi and David Spade appearing in countless Adam Sandler creations alongside his wife, Jackie, and their daughters, Sadie and Sunny. Hollywood heavyweight Al Pacino previously shared that the Funny People superstar gave him a role in 2011's Jack and Jill at a point when he was struggling for money – due to a corrupt accountant and years of overspending. 'I was broke. I had $50 million, and then I had nothing,' he wrote in his 2024 memoir, Sonny Boy, via IndieWire. 'In this business, when you make $10m for a film, it's not $10m. Because after the lawyers, and the agents, and the publicist, and the government, it's not $10m, it's $4.5m in your pocket. 'But you're living above that because you're high on the hog. And that's how you lose it. It's very strange, the way it happens. The more money you make, the less you have. 'The kind of money I was spending and where it was going was just a crazy montage of loss. […] And I thought, It's simple. It's clear. I just know this. Time stopped. I am f**ked.' 'Jack and Jill was the first film I made after I lost my money. To be honest, I did it because I didn't have anything else,' he recalled. 'Adam Sandler wanted me, and they paid me a lot for it. So I went out and did it, and it helped. 'I love Adam, he was wonderful to work with and has become a dear friend. He also just happens to be a great actor and a hell of a guy.' There is no denying that Adam has been a major part of the most iconic comedies in recent years, with many of his early 00s films still being quoted today – but he hasn't always been taken seriously by critics. In fact, while he pocketed millions of dollars in his deal with Netflix, he also has nine Razzies to his name and many more nominations. Discussing the harsh criticism he has received throughout his career and whether that 'stings', he told the AARP: 'Sometimes. Mostly because I invite all these amazing people I care about to make movies with me, and I wish they didn't have to read s**t about whatever we've made. 'But I don't get too shook up. I always remember something my father said. He was a tough b*****d. He went through ups and downs in his life, like not having work for a year or two and not telling us. 'I recall one time that something didn't go right for me. I bombed onstage or didn't get an audition. I was upset and probably embarrassed. And he said, 'Adam, you can't always be happy. People aren't always going to like you. You're going to fail.' I said, 'But I just want to be happy, man. I don't want all that other crap.' More Trending 'He said, 'You won't actually know you're happy if you don't feel that other stuff.' Touching on what keeps him going amid negative reactions, he added: 'I like giving myself over to a new challenge. Sometimes I feel like I'm tapped out with new thoughts, and then all of a sudden, something new comes up and I go, 'Okay, how can I make this happen?' 'It was cool as hell pushing myself in new ways like I did on Uncut Gems. Running around the Diamond District in New York, the intensity of that amazing character, or in Hustle, being around the greatest NBA players and not worrying about laughs as much as what each character is going through and pulling for. But I do love comedy more than anything.' Happy Gilmore 2 is released on Netflix on Friday. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. 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News.com.au
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Fans blown away by Adam Sandler secret
Big Daddy, the 1999 comedy classic, centres around 32-year-old Sonny (Adam Sandler) who, after being dumped by his girlfriend for an older man, decides to prove how responsible he is by adopting 5-year-old Julian (Dylan and Cole Sprouse). Unfortunately for Sonny, parenthood is not as simple as he initially thought it was. Picture: IMDb Little Nicky is comedy meets fantasy, with Adam Sandler playing protagonist Nicky. His mum is an angel, his dad is the devil, and it's Nicky's job to restore the balance between Good and Evil. What could go wrong? Picture: IMDb The 2002 for-adults-only animated film Eight Crazy Nights features Davey Stone (Adam Sandler), a 33-year-old alcoholic who gets sentenced community service after getting in trouble with the law. It marks Sandler's first voice acting role. Picture: IMDb In I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, firefighters Chuck and Larry are best friends who work together. When things go awry on a job, they decide the best course of action is to pretend to be a gay couple to receive domestic partner benefits. A recipe for success, surely? Picture: IMDb Grown Ups is the story of five high school friends who reunite after the passing of their basketball coach. In classic Adam Sandler form, things get rowdy as they spend the Fourth of July weekend together. Picture: IMDb In Grown Ups 2, Lenny (Adam Sandler) decides to move back to his hometown, where he's greeted with chaos and many more funny situations. Picture: IMDb Blended, another Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore special. In this 2014 flick, Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) are pushed to go on a blind date, which ends horribly. They hope to never see each other again but unfortunately they find themselves stuck with each other later at the same resort. Picture: IMDb In Blended, Jackie is credited with playing 'Hollywood Stepmum.' Their daughters also make an appearance. Picture: IMDb Game on or game over. In Pixels, an alien force mistakenly interprets footage from a video game as a declaration of war, and launches an attack on Earth. Picture: IMDb Jackie Sandler takes on the White House as Jennifer, the President's Assistant. Picture: George Krychyk The Do-Over centres around two old high school friends who decide to fake their own deaths to start fresh. However, things don't go quite to plan. Picture: IMDb Jackie plays Joan, a woman the two friends meet on their adventure. Jackie and Adam Sandler's daughters, Sadie and Sally, also make a cameo in the film, playing the daughters of Auto Store Lou. Picture: IMDb In The Ridiculous 6, Adam Sandler takes on the role of Tommy, aka White Knife, who discovers that five outlaws are actually his brothers. Together, they go on a mission to find their father. Picture: IMDb Jackie has a small but hilarious role as 'Never Wears Bra'. Picture: IMDb In Sandy Wexler, Adam Sandler plays an eccentric talent manager working in Los Angeles. His life is turned upside down when he meets talented singer Courtney (Jennifer Hudson). Picture: IMDb In Sandy Wexler, Jackie has a small role playing Amy Baskin. Blink and you'll miss her! Picture: IMDb In The Week Of, two completely different fathers (Adam Sandler and Chris Rock) are forced to come together to celebrate the wedding of their children. Picture: IMDb Jackie plays a supporting character who appears during the pre-wedding shenanigans. Picture: IMDb In Murder Mystery, a married couple (Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston) decide to embark on the holiday of a lifetime. However, things take a turn when they end up being framed for a murder. Picture: IMDb You can spot Jackie at the beginning of the film playing the 'Great Looking Flight Attendant'. Picture: IMDb In Hubie Halloween, Sandeler plays Hubie, an oddball character who sets out on Halloween to keep his town safe. Picture: IMDb Jackie makes an appearance as Tracy Phillips, a news anchor who dresses as Harley Quinn. Picture: IMDb You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is about two best friends (Stacy and Lydia) whose bat mitzvah goes awry when school drama gets involved. Picture: IMDb Jackie Sandler plays Gabi Rodriguez Katz, the mother of Lydia (Samantha Lorraine). Adam Sandler plays Danny Friedman, the father of Stacy and Ronnie (Sunny and Sadie Sandler). It's a whole family affair!
Spectator
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Jarvis Cocker still has the voice
For bands of a certain vintage, the art of keeping the show on the road involves a tightly choreographed dance between past and present, old and new, then and now. It's not a one-way transaction: there should be some recognition that the people you are playing to have also evolved since the glory years of the indie disco and student union. Halfway through the first date of Pulp's UK tour following the release of More, their first album in 24 years, I started thinking about Withnail & I. Watching the film repeatedly as a young man, the booze-soaked antics of the dissipated 'resting actor' and his addled supporting cast seemed like great larks, albeit in extremis. The last time I watched it, approaching 50, sober as a judge, it played as the bleak tragedy it had surely always been. To steal the title of a Pulp song: something changed. The music of Pulp has always been scored through with melancholy and painful longing, but its emotional heft and essentially good heart is more evident these days. Singer Jarvis Cocker no longer hides behind so many layers of ironic distance. As he half-joked before 'Help The Aged', at 61 he now requires audience assistance to reach the high notes. More is Cocker's delayed, reluctant reckoning with adulthood. As he put it on 'Grown Ups', 'We're hoping that we don't get shown up/ 'Cos everybody's got to grow up.' Love was once a source of shame and embarrassment, he told us, but he has finally reached a gentlemanly accommodation with it. The shift was evident on new songs such as 'Slow Jam', 'Got To Have Love' and 'Farmer's Market' – a terrific orchestral ballad – but also in the low-key sense of gratitude that emanated from the stage. Cocker came across as a warmer, less wary figure, tossing out grapes and sweeties to the front rows. There were more obvious signs that we weren't in 1995 anymore. The group's core four – Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle and Mark Webber – nowadays resemble members of the history department of a Russell Group university who have decided to enliven the pre-retirement years by forming a band. They were joined by a string ensemble, a percussionist and several superb multi-instrumentalists, enabling Pulp2025 to shift seamlessly from the vast, corrupted Bond theme drama of 'This Is Hardcore' to a pared-down acoustic version of 'Something Changed'. In the midst of all that evolution, the trick was that it was all still very recognisably Pulp. Framed by purple velvet drapes, the set was a Sheffield bingo hall transported to an aircraft hangar, while an air of slightly shambolic indie-ism survived the transition to a slick arena show. Cocker still has the voice and, perhaps more importantly, the moves. His hands pirouetted like a good actor playing a bad magician. He corkscrewed into the air when excitement got the better of him, such as the moment when 'Common People' exploded into life. The song, which should by now feel glossy with overfamiliarity, was instead a juggernaut of propulsive energy. By then, they had played most of More. 'Tina' might be a classic Pulp title destined to be for ever waiting in vain to become a classic Pulp song, but much of the new material held its own among the gold-standard highlights: 'Sorted For E's & Whizz', an exhilarating 'Disco 2000', 'Mis-Shapes', 'Do You Remember The First Time?' and 'Babies', as well as outliers such as 'The Fear' and 'O.U. (Gone, Gone)'. Nothing on More could possibly have the impact of those songs, a point the audience instinctively understood. That was then, this is now. Both band and fans simply seemed appreciative of the opportunity for 'one last sunset, one final blaze of glory.' The Waterboys are also touring a new album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, a gonzo, genre-hopping 25-track sprawl that maps the life of the maverick US actor to the shifting currents of the postwar counterculture. They played around half of it in Edinburgh, in a single suite that unspooled against a Hopper-heavy backdrop of black and white stills and saturated Super-8 video footage. It felt fresh, colourful, eccentric and ultimately celebratory. On either side, they crunched out setlist staples such as 'Be My Enemy' and 'A Girl Called Johnny', which delivered power and punch without much in the way of surprises. The gig was at its best when the interplay between the musicians had space to stretch out. A reworked 'This Is The Sea' gathered an elemental power, and there was a nod to the recently departed Sly Stone during the still effervescent 'The Whole Of The Moon'. Like Pulp, the Waterboys have seen over 40 years' of active service, yet they are still evolving.
Scotsman
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
'I saw Pulp on their tour's opening night and I didn't want it to end'
Asking an audience of 14,000 people to imagine they are sitting in a living room listening to their favourite band 'jamming on the settee' opposite them is quite a stretch - especially when you're playing Scotland's largest arena. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... And yet there's something about the way Jarvis Cocker spoke to his fans while he meandered around on stage throwing chocolates to those in the front row as he kicked off Pulp's tour at Glasgow's OVO Hydro that made it feel like an intimate exchange between friends - even when he was sunbathing in a spotlight, reclining in a leather armchair under a chandelier and sharing the stage with flailing air dancers. Despite the frontman's easy-osey approach to performing - admitting he can no longer hit a high note and chatting candidly about how he used to be unable to talk about love - the show has been planned meticulously in order to make it less of a gritty gig and more of a theatrical experience. The show was played in two parts, with the band appearing from behind a grand red curtain alongside a string ensemble and backing singers. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Opening the show with three back-to-back tracks from the band's new album More, which was released just a day before, was a ballsy move but Spike Island, Grown Ups and Slow Jam set the tone for the night with the crowd hanging on every word and every note - a testament to how true-to-the-band the new record is. Pulp in Glasgow | Calum Buchan Old favourites came thick and fast after that, with everyone getting to their feet for Disco 2000, which was sandwiched between Sorted for E's & Wizz and F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. The remainder of the first act saw a peppering of new tracks Tina and Farmers Market, played between the likes of Help the Aged - the first time the band has played it live in more than a decade - This is Hardcore and Sunrise. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad An unorthodox 15 minute intermission came next and it's hard not to imagine that Cocker requested the interval purely to let him have a sit down and enjoy a cup of green tea and some grapes but, regardless of the reason, it worked well. Far from dampening the mood, the audience were buzzing when, as fans returned from the bar, they were given the chance to cheer for their song of choice - with underrated hit Seconds beating Dishes to the win. Pulp in Glasgow | Calum Buchan The band came out in front of the red curtain for an unplugged rendition of Something Changed before treating the audience to lesser-heard-live 90s tracks including The Fear, O.U. (Gone Gone) and Acrylic Afternoons. There wasn't much danger of people leaving on anything but a high, but to make absolutely sure that was the case, Cocker saved some of the band's best known tracks until last. Do You Remember the First Time? got everyone up on their feet, where they stayed for the remainder of the show as Cocker belted out some of the band's most iconic tunes, including Mis-Shapes, Babies and, of course, Common People. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad I will say that I left the concert wishing they'd also played the likes of Pink Glove, Underwear or Like a Friend. But, far from that being a comment on what I'd have changed about the night or the setlist, it's merely a wish that the night could have lasted even longer.
