Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line : no one was ‘offended’ at one of the hottest directors in Hollywood (and one of the hottest movie stars in Hollywood) on their sex scenes for the Sinners movie.

But you guys are offended that Baldoni, like Coogler, called for several sex scenes from several different actresses, and poor Blake thought they were in bad taste.

Tell that to Hailee Steinfeld and Michael B Jordan. Hailee will be happy to take on Blakes role in the next edition, regardless of who directs. Or a Jennifer Lawrence or a host of other actresses. Get Scarlett back! Shit she did that drama with Adam Driver!

There are so many other actresses that Baldoni can and should work with going forward.

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Do any of those actresses want to make a movie with Justin Baldoni? Even if he weren't involved in this lawsuit, I'm guessing the answer is no.

Why? Scarlett just did. Doesn’t get much bigger than her so confused as why you would say that.

No I mean as a director. Was Justin on the set of that movie? No. And Scarlett directed and Justin was not directly involved. Wayfarer was the financing producer. There were several smaller production companies involved. Neither Justin nor Heath have a p.g.a. credit on the movie.

Scarlett is not going to make a movie with Justin Baldoni as the director. Not now, not ever.

Okay. Who cares? Wayfarer is still Justin’s company. Guarantee Scarlett will also never do a movie with Blake either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has Venable mooted their motion to quash in DC? Genuinely asking, I can't remember if someone linked that docket. Freedman said they would moot it because he was working with them "in good faith" now. I think it's weird they have not yet if that's the case. If they don't moot it, Wayfarer will owe a response on that docket soon.

They have two weeks to file a response, so lots of time left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line : no one was ‘offended’ at one of the hottest directors in Hollywood (and one of the hottest movie stars in Hollywood) on their sex scenes for the Sinners movie.

But you guys are offended that Baldoni, like Coogler, called for several sex scenes from several different actresses, and poor Blake thought they were in bad taste.

Tell that to Hailee Steinfeld and Michael B Jordan. Hailee will be happy to take on Blakes role in the next edition, regardless of who directs. Or a Jennifer Lawrence or a host of other actresses. Get Scarlett back! Shit she did that drama with Adam Driver!

There are so many other actresses that Baldoni can and should work with going forward.

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Do any of those actresses want to make a movie with Justin Baldoni? Even if he weren't involved in this lawsuit, I'm guessing the answer is no.

Why? Scarlett just did. Doesn’t get much bigger than her so confused as why you would say that.

No I mean as a director. Was Justin on the set of that movie? No. And Scarlett directed and Justin was not directly involved. Wayfarer was the financing producer. There were several smaller production companies involved. Neither Justin nor Heath have a p.g.a. credit on the movie.

Scarlett is not going to make a movie with Justin Baldoni as the director. Not now, not ever.

How would you know Arlington mom?

I'm not "Arlington mom" but the reason why is Scarlett is an A-list actress who can do whatever projects she wants and she doesn't have to make corny schlock, which is all Baldoni has ever made. And also because no one will want to work with someone who, AT BEST, was an ineffectual and tone deaf director who was unprofessional on set and couldn't figure out how to work with a challenging lead. At worst, he is a harasser whose set was a hostile work environment and made multiple actresses uncomfortable and then retaliated against his lead via a PR campaign right as the movie was coming out.

I don't know where he lands along that continuum because I don't know who to believe here. But even if I take Justin at his word, he was pretty awful on this movie, talking out of both sides of his mouth, telling talent they could do whatever they want while telling other producers he was keeping her in check (he wasn't). He was also, sorry, a gigantic baby in post-production and during marketing of the film. The whiny messages with his editors during that whole situation? He comes off so unprofessional and weak. And then when he was mad about how promotion was going, he first claims some kind medical issue he now claims was related to the stress from the Blake situation (though he also had some medical issue with his leg in the fall -- he strikes me as the kind of person who suddenly has a medical malady when they want people to feel sorry for them which is super irritating) and then he just skipped town to hang out in Sweden in the weeks before the movie came out? And then he went to Sweden again right after the film opened? He seems like an unprofessional baby and yes that's true even if everything he alleges about Blake turns out to be true, which I'm open to. Grow up. You're a director of a major film with a global release via Sony. His behavior was ridiculous.

So no, ScarJo and Jennifer Lawrence are not going to do movies with him directing, lol. His rep as a director is toast. And that's in a town where Olivia Wilde is still getting directing jobs even after the mess she made on Don't Worry Darling. She might be messy but she at least got it together and did her job when it came to promoting the movie, even with all the awkwardness with Florence Pugh. Because she is an adult and Baldoni is a child. He is not cut out for this job. Go back to making sappy "documentary shorts" that prey on dying people in their last days or whatever he was doing before. He's not making A-list movies, not ever again.

A very long winded way of saying you have no clue one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

Why is the pro-Lively poster acting like Baldoni was unprofessional and did not promote the movie? He did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has Venable mooted their motion to quash in DC? Genuinely asking, I can't remember if someone linked that docket. Freedman said they would moot it because he was working with them "in good faith" now. I think it's weird they have not yet if that's the case. If they don't moot it, Wayfarer will owe a response on that docket soon.

They have two weeks to file a response, so lots of time left.

Two weeks from when the motion to quash was filed. Which was at least a week ago. The motion to intervene was filed on the 13th so response to that would be due next Tuesday. I don't know if the motion to quash was filed late on the 9th or on the 12th (again haven't seen the docket) but time is ticking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I guarantee that an actress will sign up to do a movie with Baldoni (Scarlett) much quicker than any actor will sign on to do a movie with Blake. She can just forget about that going forward.

But again, nearly everyone is ready to move on to a favorable settlement for Baldoni or a jury trial at this point. No one but you cares about Blake or her narrative anymore.

Let’s focus on procedure, settlement and/or trial issues.

Did anyone see Scarlett on SNL Saturday? I saw a clip with her cute hubby giving her flowers and kissing her! I like her. Been following her movies for a bit. Cants wait for all of her summer movies—Eleanor (Baldoni film) and Jurassic Park stuff!

And look at Florence/-killing the MCU universe with those box office numbers!!

Margot is looking to team with Gosling for Oceans.

Too many exciting actors out there to want to spend any more time on Blake.

When is Taylor dropping her next album or tour?

Saw SNL - they had another skit involving intimacy coordinators LOL

You are right - there are just too many actresses in that age range for Blake to compete with, with this stigma on her.

Meghann Fahy is 35 and she seems to be getting all the covered mid 30s roles these days. She just did Drop which has IEWU costar Brandon (Atlas) in it, her show Sirens comes out this week - with her, Kevin bacon and Julianne Moore.

You probably know her from The perfect couple with Nicole Kidman and season two of the White Lotus, where she played Daphne.

And of course Leighton Meester is in the radar again given Adam Brody captured everyone’ s heart in nobody wants us and she is in season two with him.

As for Taylor, there are rumors that she is coming out with some kind of tour in 2026.

Thanks! Time to move forward. Blake is cancelled. I still cannot believe we spent over 600+ pages on this.

There is nothing new that we need to learn about her at this point, or where things stand. Let’s just wait for the procedural stuff to play out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is the pro-Lively poster acting like Baldoni was unprofessional and did not promote the movie? He did.

He went to Sweden for like 2-3 weeks last July as they were gearing up for the premiere, when everyone else in the cast was doing promotional stuff. He basically did a couple engagements very early on (like in June, I think he did something at that "Lily's Bloom" pop up they did) and then he did a few interviews the week of the premiere, and then he left again.

He did not do as much promotion as others.

There are also texts from Jen Able complaining about all of this (including leaving town in July) and also criticizing his approach to promoting the movie. Like she references him wanting to do a "men's retreat" as part of the promotion of the movie. About a woman surviving domestic violence. A men's retreat. She was appropriately dismissive.

He also did not follow the marketing plan for the movie and let Blake catch heat for the whole "grab your friends and wear your florals" thing even though that was explicitly Sony's directive, to focus on the female empowerment angle and talk up the movie as something women could see with friends and dress up for, and downplay the DV. Instead Baldoni started playing up the DV aspect, against Sony's express wishes, in order to try and make himself look more sensitive to DV survivors from Blake.

He was actively trying to undermine the marketing plan and the star of the movie, and was refusing to fully participate in promotion. But then whined about the divided premiere? Which was already a compromise that WME fought for, on his behalf, because the cast didn't want him there at all.

He was a mess. I bet any depositions/testimony from Sony are going to be brutal for him. They clearly had just had it up to here with him by about April and wanted him to just shut up, get the movie out, and then move on. I'm sure Blake is no picnic to work with, but it looks like she did absolutely everything Sony asked of her in promoting the movie and even went above and beyond with a lot of the foreign promotion, paying for certain things out of her own pocket and flying Ferrer to things so she could make appearances as well.

As someone who has done promotion/marketing for a big product like that, I would have been so livid with Baldoni. At some point you have to put your personal feuds aside and just go do it. Even the interviews I've seen with him from around the release of the movie, he looks manic and weird and his answers to questions are odd. Blake got so much criticism for a couple weird answers to questions, but it's because she was under way more scrutiny as the headliner and the person everyone knew and wanted to talk to about the movie. Baldoni had awful interviews but no one cared because no one really knew who he was, so he didn't catch the same backlash online. Oh and he also did some of this "wear your florals" crap, and he wore florals and pink to most of his appearances as well. Because that's what Sony wanted! Blake sold it better than he did though, even though it was awkward and annoying. She did what she was told which really doesn't jive with this image Wayfarer wants to push of her being difficult every step of the way. Sony seems to have gotten what they needed/wanted of Blake, but can they say the same about Baldoni? I don't think so.

I am really curious to see if Alex Saks gives testimony and what she has to say. She was the main Sony producer on the film and the one they brought in after the 17 point list to babysit the production. She was also at the 17 point list meeting. I think a lot of JB people think she's going to be very pro-Justin but I sincerely doubt it. I'm sure she had her issues with Blake but from a producer standpoint, Justin was the problem child on this one, by a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has Venable mooted their motion to quash in DC? Genuinely asking, I can't remember if someone linked that docket. Freedman said they would moot it because he was working with them "in good faith" now. I think it's weird they have not yet if that's the case. If they don't moot it, Wayfarer will owe a response on that docket soon.

They have 14 days.

[Anonymous]

The Lively poster(s) is fascinating. I cannot believe anyone is so invested they write paragraph upon paragraph multiple times attempting to change the narrative. Originally kept responding misogyny was the reason anyone wouldn't support Lively. Then became obsessed with the birth scene. Then it was showing the home birth video. Ew ew ew. Got called out as a bot or pr and proceeded to call Baldoni posters bots. Baldoni was a deviant serial harraser. That didn't take so even if it was a misunderstanding he still ran a terrible set and he should've played ball and appeased Lively's demands. He is weak and ineffectual but enough of a bully to harass Blake and other actresses. My favorite was the "good-faith" attempt to meet other posters in person. Who would actually say yes to that?

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My favorite was the "good-faith" attempt to meet other posters in person. Who would actually say yes to that?

Reminiscent of a reddit poster who keeps asking posters to verify their identities on the Ask Lawyers subreddit before posting about the case, but hasn't done so herself on that handle, claiming to have done so on another account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Lively poster(s) is fascinating. I cannot believe anyone is so invested they write paragraph upon paragraph multiple times attempting to change the narrative. Originally kept responding misogyny was the reason anyone wouldn't support Lively. Then became obsessed with the birth scene. Then it was showing the home birth video. Ew ew ew. Got called out as a bot or pr and proceeded to call Baldoni posters bots. Baldoni was a deviant serial harraser. That didn't take so even if it was a misunderstanding he still ran a terrible set and he should've played ball and appeased Lively's demands. He is weak and ineffectual but enough of a bully to harass Blake and other actresses. My favorite was the "good-faith" attempt to meet other posters in person. Who would actually say yes to that?

You are confusing multiple people, but yes, let’s just look at the thousands of posts that three Baldoni supporters have written here making crazier claims than that about Lively and insisting, for example, that some Lively supporter was tracking their location through comments here somehow. Even more fascinating!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has Venable mooted their motion to quash in DC? Genuinely asking, I can't remember if someone linked that docket. Freedman said they would moot it because he was working with them "in good faith" now. I think it's weird they have not yet if that's the case. If they don't moot it, Wayfarer will owe a response on that docket soon.

They have 14 days.

But why hasn't Venable mooted their motion altogether? Freedman shouldn't have to file a response at all if he and Venable are now working towards production as Freedman claimed.

Did Freedman lie in his letter about Venable's intentions? That could explain why Liman came down so hard on Freedman in granting the motion to strike and even included a paragraph telling the press to give letters like Freedman even less credence than you would give a statement made out of court, which I thought was kind of overboard.

I wonder if Liman conferred with the judge in the DC case or received any communication from Venable indicating that Freedman was lying about Venable's intentions. Because he said they were going to moot their motion and they haven't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Lively poster(s) is fascinating. I cannot believe anyone is so invested they write paragraph upon paragraph multiple times attempting to change the narrative. Originally kept responding misogyny was the reason anyone wouldn't support Lively. Then became obsessed with the birth scene. Then it was showing the home birth video. Ew ew ew. Got called out as a bot or pr and proceeded to call Baldoni posters bots. Baldoni was a deviant serial harraser. That didn't take so even if it was a misunderstanding he still ran a terrible set and he should've played ball and appeased Lively's demands. He is weak and ineffectual but enough of a bully to harass Blake and other actresses. My favorite was the "good-faith" attempt to meet other posters in person. Who would actually say yes to that?

You are confusing multiple people, but yes, let’s just look at the thousands of posts that three Baldoni supporters have written here making crazier claims than that about Lively and insisting, for example, that some Lively supporter was tracking their location through comments here somehow. Even more fascinating!

Is it three? I'm convinced it's one, maybe two. The tone is exactly the same in every single post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is the pro-Lively poster acting like Baldoni was unprofessional and did not promote the movie? He did.

He went to Sweden for like 2-3 weeks last July as they were gearing up for the premiere, when everyone else in the cast was doing promotional stuff. He basically did a couple engagements very early on (like in June, I think he did something at that "Lily's Bloom" pop up they did) and then he did a few interviews the week of the premiere, and then he left again.

He did not do as much promotion as others.

There are also texts from Jen Able complaining about all of this (including leaving town in July) and also criticizing his approach to promoting the movie. Like she references him wanting to do a "men's retreat" as part of the promotion of the movie. About a woman surviving domestic violence. A men's retreat. She was appropriately dismissive.

He also did not follow the marketing plan for the movie and let Blake catch heat for the whole "grab your friends and wear your florals" thing even though that was explicitly Sony's directive, to focus on the female empowerment angle and talk up the movie as something women could see with friends and dress up for, and downplay the DV. Instead Baldoni started playing up the DV aspect, against Sony's express wishes, in order to try and make himself look more sensitive to DV survivors from Blake.

He was actively trying to undermine the marketing plan and the star of the movie, and was refusing to fully participate in promotion. But then whined about the divided premiere? Which was already a compromise that WME fought for, on his behalf, because the cast didn't want him there at all.

He was a mess. I bet any depositions/testimony from Sony are going to be brutal for him. They clearly had just had it up to here with him by about April and wanted him to just shut up, get the movie out, and then move on. I'm sure Blake is no picnic to work with, but it looks like she did absolutely everything Sony asked of her in promoting the movie and even went above and beyond with a lot of the foreign promotion, paying for certain things out of her own pocket and flying Ferrer to things so she could make appearances as well.

As someone who has done promotion/marketing for a big product like that, I would have been so livid with Baldoni. At some point you have to put your personal feuds aside and just go do it. Even the interviews I've seen with him from around the release of the movie, he looks manic and weird and his answers to questions are odd. Blake got so much criticism for a couple weird answers to questions, but it's because she was under way more scrutiny as the headliner and the person everyone knew and wanted to talk to about the movie. Baldoni had awful interviews but no one cared because no one really knew who he was, so he didn't catch the same backlash online. Oh and he also did some of this "wear your florals" crap, and he wore florals and pink to most of his appearances as well. Because that's what Sony wanted! Blake sold it better than he did though, even though it was awkward and annoying. She did what she was told which really doesn't jive with this image Wayfarer wants to push of her being difficult every step of the way. Sony seems to have gotten what they needed/wanted of Blake, but can they say the same about Baldoni? I don't think so.

I am really curious to see if Alex Saks gives testimony and what she has to say. She was the main Sony producer on the film and the one they brought in after the 17 point list to babysit the production. She was also at the 17 point list meeting. I think a lot of JB people think she's going to be very pro-Justin but I sincerely doubt it. I'm sure she had her issues with Blake but from a producer standpoint, Justin was the problem child on this one, by a lot.

‘Arlington mom’ getting paid by word count

[Anonymous]

Right on cue. Accusing others of doing the same thing they were accused of. And the accompanying buddy post agreeing. The most fascinating!