Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook is headed to Broadway as a musical, with playwright and This Is Us supervising producer Bekah Brunstetter writing the book and “Girls Chase Boys” hit-maker Ingrid Michaelson handling music and lyrics.

"I am thrilled to work with Bekah and Ingrid in order to make The Notebook a reality on…

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Best-selling romance novelist Nicholas Sparks has sold his first half-hour comedy project. The Next Chapter, written by Austin <img class="alignleft wp-image-524975" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt="winsberg1" width="214" height="248"…

UPDATED: The CW is developing a new series based on The Notebook, the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks and the 2004 feature directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

Set in the late 1940s North Carolina, the series would follow the romantic journey of the two beloved central charact…

Sunday Final update 9:36AM after 6:50AM post: It took Fast & Furious 6 some 15 weeks to accumulate $238.6M in domestic box office during the summer of 2013. By contrast, it will take Furious 7 just 10 days to pass its immediate predecessor as the highest-grossing title in the Fast & Furious franchise.

Universal sees Fu…

The feature adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ cowboy romance The Longest Ride pulled in $625K from previews last night at 2,360 locations for a $265 per-theater average. It’s the only wide entry this weekend and will expand to 3,365 theaters. Moviehouses opened their fences to the 20th Century Fox drama at 8 PM…

With ten film adaptations of his books already, and an 11th (The Choice) set for early 2016, it is clear that Nicholas Spark’s brand of romantic love stories make him Hollywood’s favorite author.

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Tom Welling has landed a lead in The Choice, the Ross Katz-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel from a script by Bryan Sipe for Lionsgate. Benjamin Walker plays Travis Parker and Teresa Palmer plays Gabby Holland. Neighbors in a small coastal town, they end up pursuing a relationship neither expected…

UPDATED 4:45 PM: Just hours after the male lead was announced, Teresa Palmer has been tapped as female lead Gabby Holland in Lionsgate’s The Choice. Her recent credits include The Ever After, Parts Per Billion and Love And Honor, and Palmer next appears in Cut Bank and Kill Me Three Times. Palmer is repped by WME…

The top-selling author’s production company has brought in Stacey Levin as EVP Television. Levin comes to Nicholas Sparks Prods from Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment, where she oversaw scripted and digital projects including USA’s drama pilot Horizon. Before that she did stints as Director of Development at…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired North American and UK distribution rights to The Choice, an adaptation of the 2007 Nicholas Sparks novel that has a script by Bryan Sipe, with Sparks, Theresa Park and Peter Safran producing. Production begins in the fall. The deal, which began percolating during the Cannes Film…

Paul Walker had planned to star in this Nicholas Sparks adaptation. James Marsden ended up playing the role opposite Michelle Monaghan as high school sweethearts who reunite in their hometown after 20 years apart. Will true love prevail? Michael Hoffman directed The Best Of Me, which he wrote with J. Mills Goodloe and…