A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Born:
December 31, 1965
Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone. Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars.
Executive Producer:
2013 Safe Haven
Novel:
1999 Message in a Bottle
2002 A Walk to Remember
2004 The Notebook
2008 Nights in Rodanthe
2010 Dear John
2010 The Last Song
2012 The Lucky One
2013 Safe Haven
2014 The Best of Me
2015 The Longest Ride
2016 The Choice
Producer:
1999 Message in a Bottle
2002 A Walk to Remember
2004 The Notebook
2008 Nights in Rodanthe
2010 Dear John
2010 The Last Song
2012 The Lucky One
2013 Safe Haven
2014 The Best of Me
2015 The Longest Ride
2016 The Choice
Screenplay:
1999 Message in a Bottle
2002 A Walk to Remember
2004 The Notebook
2008 Nights in Rodanthe
2010 Dear John
2010 The Last Song
2012 The Lucky One
2013 Safe Haven
2014 The Best of Me
2015 The Longest Ride
2016 The Choice
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.