Ryan Reynolds is offering millions to buy out Justin Baldoni's stake in "It Ends With Us"

I love that Justin is in the driver's seat now.

And yes, he SHOULD replace Blake Lively for the sequel.

Fuck that cunt!

I cannot stand her.

During the controversy I looked up the cost of the film vs BO. This film cost $25M to make and it has grossed over $325M. How many millions is he going to offer a guy who has a stake in a $325M grossing film?

Exactly, R3.

Justin would be stupid to relinquish his stake in the movie.

I hope he becomes a THORN in Ryan and Blake's fat ass, for years to come!!!

Punish those two fuckers!!

She is a basic bitch and her behavior is off putting. No one is going to want to work with her.

It’s also puzzling that so many people spent money to watch a movie about domestic violence.

This couple is now doubling down.

Why a sequel to a domestic violence-themed movie?

Because the books in the series exist , r7.

Ryan Reynolds is right up there with Jennifer Garner and Jason Sudeikis: a fake, untalented conniving cunt. Blake is a cunt but she pretends to be nothing different. She's ok in my book.

OK, thanks, R7.

She’s such an albatross. She thinks she’s brilliant but reality keeps showing her the opposite. It goes to show you she wouldn’t be anything without her “friend” and husband.

Eh ... He needs her, as well. They did manage to become a power couple. I think he almost looks ugly, in some photos.

I like that initially everyone assumed that he was just another problematic male and she was the victim.

It's karma that the narrative has flipped and this is now tanking her career.

The saddest part is that Reynolds is going to down with her.

So much like Blake

Oops.

I am enjoying the schadenfreude of this horse-faced cunt and her gay husband self-sabotaging their careers. They are phony businesspeople posing as “actors” and deserve each other.

BELIEVE ALL WOMEN! Unless the man is POC? Is that how it works now?

What's wrong with Jason Sudeikis? I've never heard anything about him.

Reynolds looks like complete dogshit in OP's photo. Yikes.

Lol, is this supposed to help her image?

r3 I am shocked that that movie was a hit. I thought it was a flop from the bad press but no press is bad press because that's a major profit.

R20, same here. I was rather shocked when I saw what it grossed. I also assumed it was DOA because of that perfect storm of bad interviews and friction with her co-star.

Maybe fans of the book were looking forward to seeing it, so they just ignored all of the BTS infighting and came out in force.

[quote]It Ends With Us” cost $25 million to produce and is expected to net at least $25 million to $30 million in profits for both Sony (which distributed the film) and director-star Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios (which co-financed it with TSG Entertainment).

It's going to cost Ryan at least $25mm - so, less than what he got paid for Deadpool III before his share of the box office.

R22 It grossed $325M. Yeah, Ryan's going to have to make an extra trip to the ATM for this one.

She’s really not a box office star so I don’t understand why Baldoni would sell it to Gosling because it wasn’t Blake that made it a hit, it was the material.

I feel like the general public have never watched a Blake Lively movie.

I feel like this is the first time in her entire career she’s being talked about without the discussion having been planted by her team.

Fuck both those cunts. I hope Jason doesn't sell out.

Goaling

I just love that she’s stayed silent and has had family members and co-stars speak out for her. She’s such a coward.

[quote] I don’t understand why Baldoni would sell it to Gosling

Reynolds, not Gosling.

[quote] I hope Jason doesn't sell out.

Justin, not Jason.

And that journalist who she shit on isn’t done spanking her.

[quote] Maybe fans of the book were looking forward to seeing it, so they just ignored all of the BTS infighting and came out in force.

It was probably this. Movie adaptations of books geared towards female audiences can be huge moneymakers.

This film seems like those right-wing movies where churches and political orgs buy all the tickets but no one actually attends.

Someone should check Reynold’s checkbook and see how many showings at theaters were bought out by Mint Mobile.

All this drama could have been avoided if Blake wasn't an asshole.

Hilarious really. Lively got a movie that was a huge success and a possible franchise - and depth-charged it herself through egotism and spite.

Would Justin really be able to replace Black Lively in a sequel?

[quote]Would Justin really be able to replace Black Lively in a sequel?

I hope he does if for no other reason than to prove that you can replace actors in general and her specifically.

I hate that it's now a huge deal to recast, especially if the actor died.

^^^also, I would laugh and laugh and laugh if he replaced Lively with ScarJo.

Why is Blake Lively a cunt? I know nothing about her outside of her acting roles.

[quote] Black Lively

She’s my favorite Avenger!

He’s very average looking

[quote] I am enjoying the schadenfreude of this horse-faced cunt and her gay husband self-sabotaging their careers.

People are watching those two movies, so alas, I don’t think it will have any long term effect on their careers.

Blake will likely spin it into a I wAs CaNcElLeD bEcAuSe i’M a StRoNg WoMaN PR point in a year or so.

I'm really disappointed in Ryan through all of this.

Stupid bitch spoiled him for me now.

[quote] I'm really disappointed in Ryan through all of this.

Nah, he has always seemed like a weasel.

Plus, she's probably holding his closeted secrets, so he has to do her bidding.

Just like Will and Jada.

[quote] And that journalist who she shit on isn’t done spanking her.

Beg pardon?

I love that she keeps coming for her

Oh god, are Blake and Ryan the new Will and Jada? Although it seems more likely that Blake would do the public slapping.

Can’t he just beat her to a pulp in the first scene of the sequel and then stalk/seduce someone else?

I like Blake and Ryan. This movie made bank, so, whether Baldoni sells or not, there are no losers in this scenario.

Wtf is this whole thing about? I haven't seen this movie but I keep hearing about some controversy and bad blood.

Wasn't she a Weinstein favorite?

The drama surrounding “It Ends With Us” seemed to be some of the biggest entertainment news this week, with Blake Lively catching a lot of heat for her conduct during the press run for the film — and some problematic past actions.

The film, which was adapted from the 2016 bestselling novel of the same name, follows Lively’s character, flower shop owner Lily Bloom. She falls in love with Ryle Kincaid, a seemingly charming neurosurgeon played by director and co-lead Justin Baldoni who lives in her building and pursues her. The couple’s love story takes a volatile turn when Kincaid begins to abuse Lily.

You would think the focal point of the press run would discuss the effects of abuse and how the cast and crew wanted the film to show how complicated narratives of domestic violence can be. (HuffPost senior reporter Elyse Wanshel also covered some of the backlash earlier this week.) Instead, Lively promoted her outside endeavors and seemed pretty flippant or downright avoidant when it came to homing in on how her character navigates abuse. She talked about her newly launched hair care line and tried to have lighthearted conversations with interviewers.

In a viral clip, a reporter asked Lively how someone should go about approaching her to get advice about how to deal with issues of domestic violence. Her answer was pretty distasteful. She easily could have recommended some organizations that help survivors of domestic violence if she personally couldn’t offer help. Instead, she decided to be cheeky and responded by flipping the question with a question to the interviewer. “Like, ask for my phone number, or a location share?” she said before continuing and mentioning Virgo traits.

R52 Perfect recap. Also, she just laughs and laughs at her own responses (including the one about the location share). She is just a vapid mean girl.

[quote]^^^also, I would laugh and laugh and laugh if he replaced Lively with ScarJo.

I was going to comment about Johansson not coming within miles of all that drama, but then remembered that time she took on a race-swapped Asian role. And that time she took on a role as a trans man. And that time she sued Disney and got them to pony up something like $40 million.

Clearly girlfriend fears nothing, so I suppose it could happen.

The movie made so much bank because the author of the books, Hoover, has a huge following and that following will buy whatever garbage Hoover produces because they have no taste. Read a few passages and you will see what I mean. Hoover's prose makes 50 Shades look like Shakespeare. I hate to shit on a group of people who read, especially when reading for pleasure continues to wane in the general public. But this stuff is absolute dreck.

Interesting r55. I’ve never heard of her, but I don’t read fraufic. I guess that’s why Lively optioned the book. Has the author spoken out about Lively being tone deaf in interviews and not addressing domestic violence? Or was she all caught up in the glow of being adjacent to Blake and Ryan?

The author sided with the Reynold$, knowing that $he would likely get more money/consideration/power from an alliance with the almighty Ryan/Blake duo than Baldoni.

It sucks because they sent her (the author) their cut of the film on the downlow and $he chose their cut over Baldoni's director cut, even though (I believe) his cut was truer to the source material then the Power Twin$.

Oh, R56, Hoover is as much of a greedy imbecile as Blake. She tried to make a coloring book out of "It Ends With Us" but ending up apologizing and retracting the project when the public criticized her for the ill-conceived idea.

Hoover took Blake's side. She pays lip-service to the domestic violence them when pressed, but I think to her it was merely a plot device.

[quote] She talked about her newly launched hair care line and tried to have lighthearted conversations with interviewers.

She truly is a bimbo’s bimbo. And she already has old-lady face.

PR-obsessed Reynold’s will trade her in for a new model in short order. Hopefully he’ll make sure the next one has a brain.

[quote] I was going to comment about Johansson not coming within miles of all that drama, but then remembered that time she took on a race-swapped Asian role.

She played a robot. Robots don’t have a race.

Terrible movie, nonetheless.

[quote]I was going to comment about Johansson not coming within miles of all that drama, but then remembered that time she took on a race-swapped Asian role.

The fact that she was married to Reynolds, and Lively was and is a poor man's ScarJo (whom I frankly also despise just a bit) makes her the perfect revenge casting by Baldoni.

In other news Ryan Reynolds looks gay from outer space.

[quote] And that time she sued Disney and got them to pony up something like $40 million.

Scarlett Johansson was in the right for that.