Posted on 12/21/2024 9:36:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
The filing also included other demands, like, “No more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project.”
Per the demands, the cast and crew of It Ends With Us were under a contractual obligation to promote the film as they had previously determined would focus “more on Lily’s [Lively’s character] strength and resilience as opposed to describing the film as a story about domestic violence.” They were also supposed to “avoid talking about this film that makes it feel sad or heavy [sic]—it’s a story of hope.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
I believe they know about Him but refuse to follow Him for obvious reasons.
From IMDB...
Budget $25,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada $148,518,266
Opening weekend US & Canada $50,016,652
Gross worldwide $350,960,656
This is a money grab and an attempt to rehabilitate her image. She has been getting slammed for more than a month for her behavior during this film and leading up to its release. She basically did a hostile takeover of the film midway. The actor/director she is maligning is by all accounts a really good person who took the high road and let her take over the film ( with her husband doing rewrites ).
This kills two birds namely getting her a bigger payday and making her not to be a victim instead of a manipulative oppressor. There have been tons of people coming forward who have worked with her previously who have all come forward detailing similar experiences. It’s a shame because Ryan Reynolds seems like a genuinely cool person. Oh well , Hollywood sucks!
It is worth noting that Baldoni owned the rights to the film and its sequel. He was starring in it and directing it. He has also never had a single negative thing said about him before this. Lively on the other hand is pretty much despised in the industry. Many big name actor/actresses who has worked with her, cannot stand her.
Lively was also heavily criticized for her many lighthearted interview snippets and cross-promotion of her new hair-care line and alcohol line because of the film’s serious, domestic violence storyline. She was trying to cross promote her other products while promoting a film about domestic violence and it really came off ugly. She has earned a ton of bad publicity and it looks like she is trying to rehab her image and steal money and possibly the rights to the sequel from Baldoni.
‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html
So sad that respectable Americans continue to support Hollywood garbage.
It’s awfully convenient having that article drop at the same time the lawsuit is announced. This is not a new story. It’s been covered extensively since before the film released in August. Lively has been “train wrecking” for months and been her own worst enemy as it is her interviews and her words that have done the majority of the damage. Brett Cooper is one of many who have covered this in depth and the results did not cast Lively in a positive light.
So after taking over Baldonis film and then months of bad press for her suddenly she is the victim? I hope it gets tossed but I am sure it will have to be settled if for no other reason than Reynolds’s has so much money that he can bury Baldoni legally.
So she’s basically doing soft core porn.
Now I’m Interested.* Seems Baldoni hired a PR firm to defame BL with these tales. (Emails to be exposed) It’s Depp Heard all over again. Who will be believed?
Never watched Depp so…
At the end of the day it’s all he said she said. Black definitely has the best lawyers money can buy. They are going to destroy Baldoni regardless of what actually happened. That Baldoni (& Lively / Reynolds) hired or already had PR firms to help them is hardly surprising.
If I was Baldoni and lively took over my movie and iced me out I would for sure have lined up PR firms to make sure I didn’t get destroyed too. People don’t think about just how destructive even an unproven “me too” allegation could be.
IF there are similar prior allegations against Baldoni I’ll totally change my mind. At the time of the release of the movie, there were none and that was mentioned multiple times in analyzing lively’s behaviour.
The hollywood producers and directors film ‘extra’ scenes that are more explicit then in the released film then they pass around the extra scenes. The actresses can be in on it as they know they may get other job offers.
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I had started to jump in on this last night, but I found myself (as usual) getting drawn into long tangents. I haven’t seen the movie. Nor have I read the book. But in my still relatively new retirement hobby, an endless quest for worthy “conservative” or conservative adjacent films, I have started paying more attention to things that stir up a storm in MovieLand. I have a tangential interest in a couple of the people involved with this, so it has been in my peripheral vision.
Anyhow: at this point, I share your take on this. A lot of what Blake Lively is raising in her complaint consists of her feeling uncomfortable over scenes that were discussed but were never shot, or additional takes that she thought were unnecessary, or JB adlibbing a line that she thought broke from character. She alleges that various things should have been choreographed by an intimacy coordinator; well, there was an intimacy coordinator on set, and what was she doing? Some of the accusations involve not JB, but another producer, who was pushing for various things to which she successfully objected. And she throws in a thing or two to which she reluctantly agreed, after long discussion, but which she now regrets.
It’s important to note that BL isn’t a 20 year old unknown, desperate for her break, powerless in the industry, faced with the classic “do it or we’ll get someone else and your career is probably over” ultimatum. She’s had a long and pretty successful career. She’s married to one of the most bankable actors in the industry. She and hubby are a Hollywood power couple. She spends a lot of her spare time palling around with Taylor Swift as part of the TS posse. If this becomes a war of dueling fandoms, or a war of who can bankrupt whom with armies of lawyers, it’s a one sided fight.
So why bring this up now? It’s not the money; BL and Ryan Reynolds don’t need the money and they will spend more on lawyers than they could ever recoup from JB. The production became a battleground. The PR tour was difficult. The cast was pushed into taking sides in a David vs. Goliath fight. JB has always had a reputation as one of the good guys, and I am skeptical that he suddenly turned into a monster this time around. Maybe his image is all a facade and there really is a monster behind the mask, but that remains to be seen.
In the background, the long-running dispute seems to have originated in different views on the tone and direction of the movie. JB was pushing for a much darker film while BL want it to develop as a triumph of an heroic woman who survives a predator and slays her own demons in the process. Apparently she and Ryan Reynolds tried to roll JB, who owned the rights, and it got ugly. But that too is now in the past. So what’s the point?
I can only see two possibilities. One, as you have suggested, is that BL seems to have gotten hammered by the obsessives who have followed this production closely from the start. I am not one of those people, but my sense (as a matter of peripheral vision) is that her pride has been stung. Escalating this now, however, seems to me to be playing with fire and, very likely, pouring good money after bad. The movie was a considerable commercial success. Take the money and run. Let the social media stuff fade away.
The other possible issue would be the rumored sequel, which has been discussed for a long time now. Given how this has gotten so toxic, a sequel may be out of the question now, but ... well ... maybe? The wrinkle here is that the author of the source novel sold the rights to JB, which is the trump card he has been holding all along. The movie was not yet on anyone’s radar screen, and going forward was a high risk gamble. JB took the chance, bought the rights, and his studio produced it with JB as the director. At some point, when this became a big deal, dollar signs started dancing in the author’s head, and she wanted to renegotiate her take. JB refused. I don’t know if they’ve reached a deal, but I gather that the author sided with BL and Ryan Reynolds when they tried to buy the rights from JB, who turned them down as well.
So yeah. Blood in the water. JB is an indie film guy with a tiny independent studio, and he’s involved in a David and Goliath fight with the Bigfeet. If the indie film guy turns out to be a closeted monster and BL is a wronged innocent, I’ll change my tune, but unless and until that happens, I’m for the little guy in this kind of fight.
This about who Liveley is married to.
She could be and possibly is another Meghan Markle.
But Lively isn’t married to loser like Prince Harry.
She’s married to Ryan Reynolds.
And that guy makes money. Lots and lots of it.
And, in Hollyweird, that’s what matters.
What I’d like to know is whether or not Lively told her husband about this.
If she didn’t, why?
And, if she did, and if Reynolds believed her, why didn’t Reynolds deal with Baldoni?
If Baldoni did what Lively is alleging, why didn’t Reynolds beat the living excrement out of the guy?
Update and it’s a honey.
What an almighty cluster this has turned out to be for Lively/Reynolds, Swift, WME, the NYT.
For more...
https://x.com/LadyColinCampb/status/1885667097792893342
BTW, note the bit about citizen journalists.
Bet the enemedia is excreting bricks, too...
Did you see this?
I did!
But I did not have Santorini-Kolumbo on my volcano bingo card!
Neat place to get some data...
https://www.youtube.com/live/G7O7jl93AwI?feature=shared
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