If you’re a fan of romantic movies like The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, then this won’t be happy news.
Nicholas Sparks, arguably one of the most prolific love-story writers in recent memory, is shutting down his movie-production company, Nicholas Sparks Productions.
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The production company, up and running for four years, was built specifically on the Warner Bros. lot to adapt Sparks’ books into movies and television. Eleven of his 18 novels have been adapted into movies (so far), including the aforementioned films, in addition to titles such as Dear John, Safe Haven and The Last Song — all of which brought in fairly decent profits.
Sparks’ latest movies, however, struggled at the box office, with 2015’s The Longest Ride taking in $62.9 million worldwide, and his latest movie The Choice only earning $18.7 million.
The author’s representative denies that the lower box-office results have anything to do with the studio’s closure, saying instead that Sparks, 50, is “concentrating on (his) writing, working on a novel.”
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Sparks ran the production company alongside longtime collaborator Theresa Park.
His next book, Two By Two, is set for release in October 2016.
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