Look out, world. We’ve got another Nicholas Sparks movie adaptation being released tomorrow. The Lucky One will be his seventh book-to-film adaptation, and there’s no doubt it’ll be a hit.  Sparks’ six films have grossed $567.2 million — not bad for a bunch of movies that make women everywhere cry their eyes out. But that got us at FilmBuff wondering about other authors who made it big in both the lit world and at the box office.

Of course, immediately the cash money of Harry Potter ($2.7 billion in box office gross) and the Twilight saga ($1 billion to date) come to mind. And the recent success of The Hunger Games proves lit hits are still in. But there’s more out there beyond Rowling and Meyer’s works that made it from the page to the big screen. Here’s a simple chart to chart (get it?) of the success of other authors.

Which author is your personal fave?

Pretty sure we’ve been told to never “mix business with pleasure.” Dating co-workers is always tricky, let alone going into a project together feet first. So, we may have to burn a few pictures and toss out some memorabilia when a relationship goes south, but what do Hollywood duos do with a permanent feature that cements their temporary love into film history?

Newly-minted couple Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis plan to star in Relanxious as two phobic-prone people who try to get together. Sounds like a fresh storyline, but also a stale casting choice. The two celebs may have the hots for each other now, but will the flame still be lit by the time the movie is released? FilmBuff takes a look at some other couples who dared to take their dating to the big screen. Olivia and Jason, maybe you guys should take some notes.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in Gigli/ Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony in El Cantante

Yeah, we had to go there. You’d think Jenny from the Block would have learned her lesson, but nah. “Bennifer” bombed onscreen in 2003 and off-screen in 2004, and history repeated itself with the Latin lovers, 2006 and 2011 respectively. The combined box office sum of the two is probably less than what J.Lo currently makes on “American Idol.”

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut

Not the sexiest movie coupling ever, but hey, two mega-watt stars in Stanley Kubrick’s last film…what could go wrong? The film met generally positive reviews and earned some decent change for a low-radar film. Too bad the same couldn’t be said for Cruise/Kidman’s fate.

Then again, if Wilde and Sudeikis ultimately do part ways, here’s hoping they can be civil on the set like these stars were.

Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Platrow in Bounce

Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in Going the Distance

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher

But you know, we may be speaking too soon. Maybe the hottie and the funnyman are meant to be. If such is the case, take a cue from these couples who are still shacking up today. What did they seem to do right? Not take themselves seriously. Or as Stiller and Taylor keep doing, don’t even really get together on-screen!

Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Scooby Doo

Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor in Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder

Can you ‘Buffs think of other couples who’ve sunk or swim on-and-off-screen? Let us know in the comments!

Perhaps some of you are already in line waiting for tonight’s midnight premiere of The Hunger Games. Maybe some of your fellow queue members are there to see more than Katniss and the other tributes. They’re thirsting for the last of first glimpses of their favorite sparkly vamp. Havent’ those Twi-Hards had enough teasing already?

The trailer for Breaking Dawn: Part II will be released minutes before the odds are ever in our favor, so bring ear plugs for those three minutes. Yes, it’s logical for Summit Entertainment to reel in fans of the mega cash cow saga as the studio launches a new YA series with its newly-obtained partner, Lionsgate. But this ploy of teasing blockbusters before blockbusters is nothing new. Aren’t trailers, after all, one of the main pulls that drive FilmBuffs like us to theaters in flocks?

Who could forget when Michael Bay’s first explosive hit, Transformers, rolled out to cineplexes everywhere Independence Day weekend 2007. But maybe you guys recall a certain peculiar found footage trailer before the Autobots came on screen.

The chilling teaser, revealing only that it was produced by J.J. Abrams and would be released 1-18-08, caused an Internet flurry, as moviegoers scrambled to figure out more about the mystery clip. Cloverfield grossed one of the  highest opening weekends ever in January. Not a bad reception for a film that only showed two minutes of a party and the Statue of Liberty’s head rolling through an NYC street.

Indie films are also riding the buzz from mainstream movies, which generally sends more viewers into the showings than would initially have gone. The upcoming Steve Carrell-Keira Knightley film Seeking a Friend at the End of the World screened its trailer before The Vow, catching the eyes of many a couple (or groups of Channing Tatum-worshipping gals) and piqued greater interest for the movie than if the trailer only played before other indie movies.

Do these trailers hype your movie-going experience even more? Does the marketing ploy work for ‘Buffs like us? Let us know!