The best argument against releasing a sequel to Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick‘s terrific 1028 thriller A Simple Favor is also the reason the movie is so hotly anticipated. How do you top the original film’s jaw-dropping twists and turns (Incest! Pantsuits! A shared Henry Golding!) without selling out its end-carded happy ending? Should director […]
Don’t expect any mention of Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively‘s legal fallout at the 82nd Golden Globes. While speaking to Yahoo Entertainmentthis year’s Globes host Nikki Glaser said she is steering clear of the “It Ends with Us” drama at Sunday’s award show, which sparked Dec. 21 after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and […]
In the Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni battle, which now has spawned dueling lawsuits claiming harassment and defamation, Kjersti Flaa is an unlikely casualty. A 51-year-old Norwegian entertainment journalist who lives and works in the U.S., Flaa became part of the Lively/Baldoni story in August after she posted on an old interview she’d done with […]
As the new year begins, a pair of lawsuits from former It Ends With Us collaborators Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are making waves across Hollywood. Baldoni, director and colead of the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 bestseller, is suing The New York Times for libel and false-light invasion of privacy over a December […]
A little over 10 days after dropping Justin Baldoni, his agency, WME, which also represents his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, has released a statement insisting the married stars didn’t pressure WME to drop Baldoni. The clarification comes a day after Baldoni sued the New York Timeswhich reported […]
On June 2, 2023, Blake Lively began a text exchange with her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni that blamed her assistant for not getting her an updated batch of script pages. “She didn’t realize they were new,” Lively wrote. “New pages can always be sent to me as well please.” The […]
Fallout from an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively over the filming of It Ends With Us has sparked another lawsuit, this time against The New York Times for libel. Justin Baldoni, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, accuses the Times of conspiring with Lively’s public relations team to advance […]
Hannah Berner is setting the record straight that a recently aired joke about Blake Lively was filmed before the It Ends With Us star filed a legal complaint against Justin Baldoni. The comedian took part in Netflix‘s end-of-year comedy special Torching 2024: A Roast of the Yearwhich was released on the streamer Friday. During her […]
Justin Baldoni‘s former publicist sued him, his company and his current publicity team on Tuesday, amid a spiraling scandal over an alleged smear campaign against Baldoni’s “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively. Steph Jones, who owns Jonesworks, accused Baldoni of breaching their contract, which required him to pay her $25,000 per month. Baldoni dropped […]
Hollywood Publicist Steph Jones has accused her former client, embattled filmmaker and actor Justin Baldoni, of breach of contract in a lawsuit filed against him in New York this week, just days after his It Ends With Us co-star sued him for sexual harassment on the set of the film. Baldoni, who directed and starred […]
