Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni starred together in a successful film. Now they are in the middle of a legal dispute.
Justin Baldoni is the director and co-star of It Ends With Us. PDO
It ends with us -film found its audience, but since its release, the film has been in the headlines, especially due to the breakup of the main stars and various controversies.
A lot of names have been attached to the controversy, but at the center of it are actress and one of the film’s producers Blake Lively and the film’s director and actor Justin Baldoni.
Baldoni now claims that Lively tried to prevent him from attending the film’s premiere. Baldoni claims that Lively systematically sidelined him in the marketing of his film. The New York Post according to Baldoni has said that Lively only agreed to allow Baldoni to attend the premiere after a lot of pressure.
According to sources, Baldoni and the producer Jamey Heath were separated from the film’s main stars, and they had no business attending the film’s exclusive after party either. According to the allegations, they had to organize their own event at additional cost.
Rumors got wind already in the summer, when Lively and Baldoni did not give joint interviews, and they did not pose for pictures together at the premiere.
Now the filmmakers are in the middle of a legal dispute.
Lively and Baldoni play a couple in the hit movie. PDO
Accuses the magazine of defamation
American writer by Colleen Hoover based on the novel of the same name, the film deals with intimate partner violence. Lively and Baldoni play a couple in the film.
After the film’s release, sources told the media that the rest of the cast did not enjoy working with Baldon. Lively has accused Baldon of, among other things, sexual harassment.
Now Baldoni blames New York Times magazine for defamation and demands compensation of 250 million dollars, or a good 240 million euros.
The magazine published earlier the thingwhere Lively got into the voice. Baldoni claims that the story smeared him. According to Baldon, the magazine uncritically accepted Lively’s point of view.
The spokesperson for the New York Times justified that the story was also based on thousands of pages of documents and messages, which are quoted extensively in the story. The newspaper says that Baldoni and the other parties involved have not shown a single mistake in the case.
Blake Lively has told her own version of the events behind the scenes of the film. PDO