Allen Covert Talks About Upcoming Adam Sandler Summer Blockbuster Pixels, and Sandler’s Netflix Deal

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You could say that Allen Covert has had a unique career for someone who is best-known for starring in the underground cult classic “Grandma’s Boy,” and has otherwise drawn most of his laughs from playing oddball supporting characters in Adam Sandler movies. An inner-circle level friend of Sandler’s ever since their days as roommates at New York University, he has been a key part of Happy Madison’s success in the film world, with 38 acting credits, 21 production credits, eight script credits and even eight of Sandler’s comedic songs partly in this name.

As a result, Covert has plenty of tales to tell about Sandler’s career as well as his own, and he stopped by the studio of podcasting station Radio Titans in downtown Los Angeles to discuss them all with host Johnny O on “The Sunday Show.” But in addition to sharing his tales from “Grandma’s Boy,” his own obsession with video games, and the making of Happy Madison films like “The House Bunny,” “Strange Wilderness,” he offers inside scoop on Sandler’s upcoming summer blockbuster “Pixels” and Sandler’s groundbreaking four-movie deal with Netflix that has resulted in the currently-filming comic Western “The Ridiculous Six.”

Covert talked about “Pixels”, an FX-packed summer comedy in which Sandler leads a group of former video-game-playing aces who are now middle-aged, to save New York City from an attack by 1980s-era video game characters. “I’m pretty excited about PIXELS, I saw it last week with very rough visual effects like bad cartoons of stuff, and it was funny, crazy with video game action and old school arcade games. There was a short film online called Pixels that had the idea about old-school video games attacking NYC and pixelating everything. We heard the rights were available and snatched them up.” “Pixels” stars Sandler, of course, as well as Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, and Michelle Monaghan. “Dinklage and Gad are knockouts,” Covert said. “It comes out in theaters July 24, with the trailer coming out March 20 with ‘Insurgent’.”

He also talked about “Ridiculous 6,” in which Sandler tackles a genre he’s always wanted to do – the Western. “I love ‘Blazing Saddles,’ but I love Westerns and Sandler loves them. He and [writer Tim] Herlihy had the idea years ago. It took eight years because we had scripts but things kept happening next and it finally worked out because we had a new deal with Netflix to make four new movies
and we thought this would be the perfect one to start it. So this will be a Netflix Original.”


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Carl Kozlowski is a co-founder of www.radiotitans.com, and host of "The Koz Effect", "Kozversations," and "Grown Ass Men.He is also an entertainment correspondent and a booker for "Grand Theft Audio" and the winner of the world-famous Laugh Factory's "America's Funniest Reporter" contest.
Carl Kozlowski
Carl Kozlowski
Carl Kozlowski is a co-founder of www.radiotitans.com, and host of "The Koz Effect", "Kozversations," and "Grown Ass Men.He is also an entertainment correspondent and a booker for "Grand Theft Audio" and the winner of the world-famous Laugh Factory's "America's Funniest Reporter" contest.