It also makes me think unprintable thoughts about Ryan Gosling, but that’s not really relevant.
Often accused of being a cold-hearted wench devoid of a single romantic thought (and according to one particularly incensed TV3 viewer, I was surely “in dire need of a boyfriend”), I do in fact have a copy of The Notebook in my DVD collection, and it does, without fail, do what The Notebook was born to do – make a grown woman cry like a baby. In fact, all I really need mention in order to send all you diehard romantics directly to your nearest cinema, is that Dear John is written by the same bloke who wrote The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks). But write I must, and here I go.ĭear John is the film which knocked Avatar off its number one perch at the US Box Office, which shows the power of the tear-jerker. Watch video: Lady Antebellum Music Video Is Best Trailer Yet for Nicholas Sparks’ ‘The Best of Me’Īnother encouraging sign Relativity is that one of the films among the slowest starters, “The Notebook,” went on to become Sparks’ highest-grossing, rolling up $81 million after debuting with $13.4 million in 2004. If “The Best of Me, ” produced for a reasonable $26 million by Relativity, DiNovi Productons and Sparks, displays the staying power of most of the author’s movies, it should turn a profit.Dear John, oh how I hate to write. It also provides counter-programming for “Gone Girl,” the dark thriller that has topped the box office for the past two weekends and offers a much different take on relationships than Sparks’ works typically do. “It will be the only romance out there, and that’s bound to help,” said Bock. It’s going up against two other wide opening films, the Brad Pitt-Shia LeBeouf war movie “Fury” and the animated kids film “The Book of Life.” Those films target entirely different audiences than “The Best of Me,” which will play most strongly with women, particularly those over 25, and tracking has been erratic of late so it could do better than expected.
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