and Nick Cassavetes have done some very solid work in the past. Both screenplays were written by someone else and the directors George Tillman Jr. The Notebook is straight up beloved (and boosted the averages massively) and The Longest Ride is much better than it had any right to be. Posters featuring something other than cuddles or head grabs: The Notebook and The Longest Ride collected a 40.5% RT score and 78% Audience Score. An interesting fact is that only The Choice was produced by Sparks and it dropped the critic/audience/box office scores a lot. Walk to Remember is the least ridiculous while Dear John and Message in a Bottle rank six and three. The good thing according to ( ) of Sparks films. Posters featuring good-looking people cuddling: Message in a bottle, Dear John, The Choice and Walk to Remember have accrued a 24.75% RT score and 65.25% Audience score. Also, these movies have the lowest averaged audience score (62%) AND domestic box office. I don't want to spoil anything but there are ghosts, the awesome Diane Lane in mom jeans and untimely deaths that are really mean. Safe Haven (12%), The Lucky One (20%), The Best of Me (8%) and The Last Song (20%) make up four of the five lowest critically rated films and they can get really weird.
The average box-office score is $61,307,960. Posters featuring a man grabbing a woman's head: Nights in Rodanthe, Safe Haven, The Best of Me, The Last Song and The Lucky One and have accrued an 18% RT score and 62% Audience score. However, things are changing and so are the movie posters. The average budget is $28 million and the average box office is $67 million dollars. The critic score is 24.6% but the audience score is 66% (Per RT). The thing I find most interesting is that they are critic-proof.
The average inflated domestic box-office for all of the movies (per Box Office Mojo) is $67,222,736 and the average Rotten Tomatoes critic score is 24.6%. The following post takes a look at the posters and analyzes the box office, critical reception, and audience ratings of Nicholas Sparks films.
A pattern is afoot and I wanted to check if there is a correlation between the movie posters and box office/critical reception. What does it mean to be a Sparks film? The movie needs beaches, mudslides, drowning, ghosts, cancer, untimely death, spunky grandparents, cute kids and some sort of lie. Sparks has become a brand and when you say it is a “Nicholas Sparks film” people know exactly what to expect. Nicholas Spark’s book adaptations have become a moneymaking machine that combines well-known actors and a whole lot of melodrama.
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