Does it end with this?
Justin Baldoni’s “It Ends with Us” is up to around $68 million this morning after 7 crazy days.
But the novelty of it all may be ending. Last night “Ends” dropped 24% from Tuesday, a big decresae.
Fans of the Colleen Hoover novel may be getting tired of the sniping between Baldoni’s camp and star Blake Lively’s.
Baldoni has even hired Johnny Depp’s crisis manager to try and battle Lively’s ongoing PR tirade against him.
In various tabloids, we’ve heard that Baldoni was mean to Lively on set, or didn’t respect her, or his abusive character — he’s the villain in the movie — bled into real life.
All we know is that Baldoni, despite this movie’s success, says he won’t be directing the sequel even though he owns the rights to the Hoover novel, “It Starts with Us.”
In all likelihood, Sony — or maybe even Ryan Reynolds — will pay a big price and buy Baldoni out so he’s gone.
Baldoni could really hold out for a lot of money.
Lively has definitely turned the cast and studio against him, which is very unusual. But Lively’s getting her own flack. An interviewer named Kjersti Flaa posted a video clip from 2016 when Lively — who was pregnant with her second child but refused to acknowledge it on camera — mocked Flaa and the made the interview a holy hell. She says she wanted to quit her job.
I don’t blame her. Watch this, as Lively is completely inappropriate and rather snotty. I’m surprised Flaa didn’t just get up and leave!
