People like Adam Sandler more when he’s heard and not seen.
Adam Sandler’s new movie ‘Hotel Transylvania 2‘ was a hit in the box office this weekend.
Adam Sandler’s voice acting as Count Dracula was a major reason for the $47.5 million opening of Sony Animation’s new movie Hotel Transylvania 2. The animated sequel is the comedic actor’s best debut ever.
The major box office win comes after several live-action box office disasters and proves that people hate seeing Adam Sandler but, enjoy hearing him.
The actor-producer’s recent disappointing live-action movies include Pixels, Blended, Jack and Jill and That’s My Boy all of which had a disappointing average opening of $23.4 million. While those numbers are not horrible but, it does show an end of an era for Adam Sandler. Recently, his latest Netflix movie, The Ridiculous 6 stirred a ton of controversy.
During production of The Ridiculous 6 several Native Americans actors complained about the movie for being extremely racist and many people quit working on the movie, which caused a ton of bad publicity for the once legendary comedic actor.
Long gone are the days of Adam Sandler’s 90’s hit movies such as Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer grossed more than $4 billion globally. But, at the end of the day, Adam Sandler’s highest grossing movie ever was Hotel Translyvania which made $358 million worldwide in 2012.
From TheWrap:
“Plugging Sandler into the irresistibly fun and animated world of Count Dracula and his friends is as much of a box office lock as you could hope for and proves that the concept of ‘Hotel Transylvania’ is like catnip to family audiences,” Rentrak senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian told TheWrap. “Moviegoers now appreciate Sandler’s comedic voice talents aside and separate from his live-action persona,” Dergarabedian said.
Hotel Transylvania 2 co-stars Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, and Steve Buscemi. The sequel was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and co-written by Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel.
