Justin Baldoni: Last News

If you aren’t aware, Brandon Sklenar worked on It Ends with Us alongside Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, co-starring as Atlas Corrigan in the film.

Saturday Night Live hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che were locked in this week when tackling headlines, addressing disasters from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s meeting with president Donald Trump to MSNBC‘s cancellation of Joy Reid’s show.

(Updated 4:46 pm PT with Blake Lively statement) The New York Times‘ December 21 exposé headlined “We Can Bury Anyone: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” turned up the heat on Justin Baldoni and his PR team over sexual harassment and retaliation allegations made by Blake Lively surrounding the making of It Ends With Us.

Justin Baldoni‘s defamation suit against the paper for its role in publishing a bombshell report that ignited his legal battle with Blake Lively. Baldoni has accused the Times of working in coordination with Lively and her PR team on the Dec.

Brent Lang Executive Editor A federal judge delivered a mixed ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni, granting part of her subpoena for phone records, while shutting down certain requests that he deemed “overly intrusive and disproportionate to the needs of the case.” Lively’s legal team had requested call and text logs between Baldoni, his PR team and other employees of Wayfarer Studios, the production company behind “It Ends With Us,” from Dec. 1, 2022, to the present.

Blake Lively is ending February on the up-beat, at least when it comes to her sprawling showdown with Justin Baldoni over sexual harassment and smear campaigns claims from It Ends With Us.

Blake Lively has reached out for help amid her legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

Tatiana Siegel Blake Lively has hired a PR crisis manager with deep government ties as her legal battle with Justin Baldoni escalates. The actress, who is suing and being sued by her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, is quietly working with Nick Shapiro, the CIA’s former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to former director John Brennan. “The litigation team for Ms.

Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett have begun working on the big-screen adaptation of one of Colleen Hoover‘s novels!

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The battle between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni revolves around questions of harassment, consent, celebrity, and the rules of warfare over one’s public image. Little surprise, then, that it’s become chum for online content creators.

upcoming follow-up flick, “Another Simple Favor.”The filmmaker revealed the swap to Entertainment Weekly, assuring the outlet that his brand, Artingstall’s Brilliant London Dry Gin, will be the only martini-making alcohol used in the movie.“There’s no more Aviation. This movie is all Artingstall’s all the time,” Feig said of his booze brand that he launched in 2020, two years after the thriller hit the box office.“I’m very proud of my brand.

The very public clash between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has seen accusations of sexual harassment, smear campaigns, defamation, extortion and more being thrown about, with Ryan Reynolds, the New York Times, Taylor Swift and Disney being pulled in to the various lawsuits. Heading towards a trial starting next year, lawyers for the It Ends With Us stars are now battling over how much of the path to that trial should be public.

legal battle with Justin Baldoni on Friday’s episode of his “Brotherly Love” podcast, Lawrence, 45, shared a story about when he and Reynolds, 48, worked together on the 1998 Frankenstein movie “Boltneck.”“It just missed the mark, but it was a really interesting movie, great script,” Lawrence said. “Anyway, the funny part about it is that the production team was having a really hard time with Ryan. This is young Ryan.“I had grown up in the industry so I had known by way around a set by that point.

she was the victim of “unwanted touching” by her co-star and director in the scene.Over the weekend, an X user shared a clip of Lively’s dance scene with Ryan Reynolds in their 2011 film “Green Lantern” and called out its alleged similarities to the “It Ends With Us” footage.“I noticed that about 30 mins into the film, there’s a scene where Lively and Reynolds characters dance in a bar in an almost identical way to the slow dance scene from IEWU,” the fan wrote.She said the “only difference” between the two scenes is that Lively and her husband are talking in “Green Lantern,” whereas Lively and Baldoni are nonverbal in their dance footage that was used as part of a montage in “It Ends With Us.”“Could it be possible that Lively was trying to recreate the scene to be similar to the scene she did with her husband when she fell in love with him?” the fan asked. “Did she rewrite the scene to mirror the details of the dance? Is this what she means when she says her husband is ‘all over this movie’? Did Reynolds see this and get jealous because it hit a nerve?”Other fans reacted to the alleged connection between Lively’s two movies.“Great observation!! Even down to the twirl!” one fan wrote on X.“Good detective work,” someone else said.“Wow that’s insane, great catch!” a third person wrote.The Post has reached out to reps for Lively, Reynolds and Baldoni.Reynolds and Lively met in 2010 on the set of “Green Lantern” and got married two years later.

EXCLUSIVE: Crisis PR experts’ job is to be invisible fixers, staying behind the scenes while navigating their clients’ way out of a scandal. The Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni saga changed that, with crisis PR veteran Melissa Nathan front and center in the duo’s legal war. And now a timely drama about a fictional crisis PR executive played by Lizzy Caplan has hit the TV marketplace, sparking interest and landing five offers, with Hulu, Netflix and Amazon among those pursuing, I hear.

Blake Lively is slamming The Hollywood Reporter for their recent cover story about her legal battle with It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.

Feb. 21 issue of the industry bible features a cartoon lampooning Lively’s lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star, Justin Baldoni.

Blake Lively has slammed a recent The Hollywood Reporter cover for its “sexist” depiction of her battling filmmaker Justin Baldoni.The artwork for a story promising an “exclusive look behind the battle lines” amid their ongoing legal row was shared on Friday (February 21). It sees the pair reimagined in a David and Goliath-esque scene, with Gossip Girl actress Lively slinging a cell phone at Baldoni, who is clutching an It Ends With Us book.Another landscape version illustrated by The Sporting Press includes Lively’s husband as Nicepool, a variant of Deadpool, who fans believe might be an unflattering portrayal of Baldoni.

Saturday Night Live has denied claims that Ryan Reynolds pitched a joke that alluded to the ongoing legal feud between his wife Blake Lively and film-maker Justin Baldoni during SNL50.The anniversary show aired last Sunday (January 16), and saw former show cast members Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host a segment where they took questions from the audience, which was filled with celebrities.As the Deadpool and Wolverine actor stood up to ask a question, they asked: “Ryan! How’s it going?”, to which Reynolds replied: “Great! Why, what have you heard?” Lively was by his side and looked surprised initially, but soon broke into a smile as it was revealed to be part of the joke.Ryan Reynolds reacts to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bringing attention to him at #SNL50 Anniversary special:“Great, why, what have you heard?” pic.twitter.com/WKYOCko4n6— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 17, 2025The joke nodded to the ongoing legal battle between Lively and Baldonim following their collaboration on the 2024 romantic drama It Ends With Us, which recently resulted in a controversial Hollywood Reporter cover, in which the pair are reimagined in a David and Goliath-esque scene.After Reynolds’ joke aired, the show’s long-time cue card holder Wally Feresten – who has worked at the sketch comedy series for 35 years – took to the Fifi, Fev and Nick podcast to shed some light.“He had a different line in rehearsal, and he pitched that to replace it. So, that was his idea to do it,” Feresten claimed, adding: “We wouldn’t want to do anything too controversial unless they were in on it.”However, an SNL spokesperson has since denied Feresten’s claim to The Hollywood Reporter, and noted he is not involved in the show’s creative process.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal dispute, according to former “SNL” cast member Dana Carvey.On Thursday’s episode of his and fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall podcast,” Carvey, 69, shared that Michaels, 80, has repeatedly texted him about the drama between the “It Ends With Us” stars. Their exchange began after Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, poked fun at the feud during the “SNL” 50th anniversary special in a segment where Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took questions from the star-studded audience in Studio 8H.

her legal battle with Justin Baldoni after allegedly receiving “violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”Attorneys for Baldoni, 41, along with those for Lively, 37, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, had previously agreed to a “model” protective order (PO) ahead of their March 2026 civil trial to prevent the public dissemination of sensitive documents and information as discovery gets underway.However, in a letter submitted to Judge Lewis J. Liman in the Southern District of New York on Thursday viewed by The Post, Lively and Reynolds’ lawyers claim that “good cause exists for the Court to provide additional protections” beyond those agreed to in the model PO.The letter cites Lively’s amended complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director filed earlier this week, which alleges the “Gossip Girl” alum, along with “her family, other members of the [‘It Ends With Us’] cast, various fact witnesses,” along with people who have publicly voiced their support for the actress “have received violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”The additional protections requested by Lively and Reynolds include “an Attorney’s Eyes Only (‘AEO’) category, which applies to ‘Confidential Discovery Material of such a highly confidential and personal, sensitive, or proprietary nature that the revelation of such is likely to cause a competitive, business, commercial, financial, personal or privacy injury,'” according to the letter.