Nicholas Sparks’ “The Best of Me” got very little love this weekend at the box office.
The $10.2 million opening of the ninth big-screen adaptation from the famed romance author was the lowest ever for an adaptation of his novels, below the $12 million that “A Walk to Remember” debuted with back in 2002. And it wasn’t even half the $21 million that his last film, “Safe Haven,” managed in its opening.
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Relativity Media was standing by its man, however. “We have had great success with Nicholas Sparks over the years and are always glad to be in business with him,” the distributor said in a statement Sunday.