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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lively's cut was the winner, for a reason, and studio execs gushed to her about the success of the film. Do you think any of this helps Baldoni, who has zero projects now in the works per imdb? Studio execs wanted to muzzle him from doing press promo, not because of Lively but because of his tendency to say inappropriate and off-putting things. They had to cut the tape of one of his interviews.

From People:
Justin Baldoni was labeled a "moron" by a studio executive over remarks he allegedly made in an interview promoting It Ends With Us.

An alleged email sent by Danni Maggin, a senior marketing executive at Sony Pictures Entertainment, on Aug. 5, 2024, shows the marketing team took issue with Baldoni's remarks in one interview.

"... Justin is basically alluding to 'raping' Atlas out of Lily when talking to the Dallas Morning News. We cut the tape but he is a moron," Maggin wrote in the email, recently unsealed as part of Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle with Baldoni.

Maggin then appeared to refer to Josh Greenstein, then-president of Sony Pictures‘ Motion Group, alleging Greenstein said that director-star Baldoni, 42, "shouldn't do any more press but he has a lot left so maybe we can talk asap."

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Perfect example of weird bot behavior.

Her cut was the low scoring one, bozo![/quote]

Her cut was the one execs selected, largely because Colleen felt it captured her vision, and the one that earned hundreds of millions of dollars, bozo! From a business perspective, Baldoni was a pathetic failure. In addition to being cut out of the social network and promotion because no one wanted to hear any more of his inappropriate remarks. He's the one who'll never work again. [/quote]

Meh, Sony likely caused themselves to lose tens of millions of dollars because they ignored normal business practices  and went with the cut markedly less popular with audiences.   Then they lost more potential profit when Blake did stupid things like make the “bring your florals” comment.  That’s what you get when you give in to a celebrity pressure campaign.[/quote]

Regardless of how you feel about Blake or Justin, I think it's dubious to assert that Sony could have made more money with Justin's cut. The truth of the matter is that the actual cut of the movie is not what sold it -- it was the marketing campaign featuring a very recognizable actress (often alongside her very famous husband and friends) and a hugely popular author. That's why they went with Blake's cut. Because Blake and Colleen would sell the hell out of it, and they did. It's highly unlikely they would have gotten more money out Justin's cut, especially if releasing that one had meant that Blake phoned in promotion.[/quote]

It was a short term gain though. they killed any hope for the sequel and Sony has been embarrassed and damaged by what has come out.

Considering Colleen Hoover’s next film regretting you also did about 100 million based on a less successful book and less known actors, they probably would have been okay with less box office sales plus a sequel plus their reputation intact. [/quote]

Agree. For big companies like Sony, box office hits are a dime a dozen. The headache that is Blake is clearly not worth it to them, since neither they nor anyone else have offered her another role. They’re over Blake. She’s unhireable. On pause. Hathaway and Eva Mendes time. To use Sony’s own words. [/quote]

The comparisons to Ann Hathaway and Eva Mendes are not unflattering to Blake, frankly. Ann Hathaway is A-list with plenty of roles these days. She "went away" for like two years after Les Mis because of overexposure which led to bizarre online hate. Her comeback movie was Interstellar, an acclaimed Christopher Nolan movie with a superstar cast. Mendes, meanwhile, wasn't so much forced to disappear as just kind of chose to stop acting and focus on being a mom. It doesn't sound like she enjoyed acting that much and she's said in interviews she doesn't think she was that good of an actress. She appears to have a perfectly nice life as a super wealthy lady with good kids and a good marriage to a highly successful actor.

I think Blake would honestly be fine with either of those outcomes.

Baldoni will never work in Hollywood again, except maybe on self-funded projects with Wayfarer, but they will never get mainstream actors to appear in their films ever again. Even if you accept that Blake was a nightmare to work with and think she's lying about the SH and retaliation, literally every deposition about the actual production of this movie is people saying "it was a mess, it was mismanaged, Justin was in over his head, Jamey didn't know what he was doing, the culture was weird, people were uncomfortable, the schedule was mismanaged, it was underinsured, etc. etc. etc." He will, as they say, never eat lunch in this town again.[/quote]

It doesn’t seem like Blake will be happy with those outcomes. If she wanted to be a stay at home mom and just be wealthy and shop she could’ve done so. She launched a production company. She launched 2 drink lines, and she launched a hair care company. She’s trying to revive her movie career. It’s ridiculous to say that this doesn’t matter to her. She clearly had ambitions for herself and now she has really screwed that up.

The Anne Hathaway comparison was insane. Anne was a little over exposed and annoyed some people and needed to step back. She’s an award-winning actress and very well respected. She took time out and has come back just fine. Makes no sense to compare those two. At the peak of Anne’s decline there was never even one percent of the press that Blake is getting - there are no embarrassing texts and emails from Anne that we are all reading. It’s completely not comparable.

It annoys me that people keep saying Justin had no idea what he was doing. Colleen Hoover was a self publisher at the time and nobody was optioning her movies. He had the foresight years before others did that this could be a big project.  He did the work to get the rights, he built the entire infrastructure of the movie and got it funded. Blake has never done anything near that accomplishment. we now see that there are three other movies in the works for Colleen Hoover, but Justin was the first and he was years ahead of the game. You gotta give him some credit for the success of the film. I’ll remind you that Blake was on set for 16 days. Maybe she directed some of the scenes that she was in but he clearly directed most of the film. And at one point, Colleen Hoover was very happy with the script, as Jamey Heath reminded her when he pointed out that he has text screenshots that he’d be happy to share with her.

Justin seems insufferable, but to act as if we would be having these conversations without his work is ridiculous. Blake has never produced one thing in her life and likely never will.[/quote]

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