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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the post above, it’s fair to say Justin and Jamey made a lot of mistakes. I would likely find them annoying and I don’t dispute they were clueless and should have changed course.

But I also don’t believe they deserve this lawsuit and the article based on the evidence I have seen and I am pretty convinced no matter what Blake and Ryan were going to seek to undermine them to gain the rights to the sequel. Justin had bought the rights from Colleen and yet Colleen texted her friend “when Blake and I do the sequel.” So I do think that was the plan.

I don’t like that she was calling him a dufus and a clown before ever setting foot on set or that she was scheming with Taylor so early on. I don’t like that she refused to sigh a contract and used that as leverage to constantly bail on the movie no less than 10 times.

I also think Sony made a lot of mistakes and look really bad. They had 2 female senior producers on set every day and yet there might be SH?

And then when the movie made them 350 million - the head of the Sony Pictures called Blake epic level stupid and callously said she’d never work again.

If it was found that there was SH, Sony was on set every day and watching every daily and yet they called Blake a terrorist and accused her of creating drama. 
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Real question: did you read the parts of Jamey Heath's depo where he talked about who was in charge on set, and how he thought HR issues should be handled during filming?[/quote]

Why don’t you calm down and stop acting like I have a real stake in this - I really don’t care. I was simply pointing out that Sony is looking bad in all this. They certainly did not expect those texts and  emails to come out, did they?

WF may have been in charge and the New York Times article made it seem like Sony was just a distributor and not really involved. We now know they were intimately involved. Having two senior producers onset every day. Being CCed on every piece of correspondence Blake’s lawyers were sending.

That’s the only point I was raising. Sony had a leak about 15 years ago that was humiliating for them. And here we are again reading the head of Sony pictures blunt emails about how he thinks Blake lively is stupid and she’ll never work again.

And how they disregarded any complaints of sexual harassment because they were obsessed with Blake‘s weight. I don’t know why she blamed Justin for that. It was the head of Sony pictures who said she looked bad and it was one of the senior producers saying don’t worry we will reshoot when she loses the baby weight.

Either Sony sucks and they’re really bad at their jobs to let it get this far and now have a huge headache of having their emails and texts out in public as well as having executives take up time to be deposed and things or they had no ideas this was coming, or probably both. No company wants that so they did open themselves up for that and I’m betting they might have some safeguards in place to avoid this kind of thing in the future, but who knows.

Conversely, they probably never thought it was going to get this far and they probably see this stuff every day on set and didn’t expect a times article and a lawsuit.

Either way they screwed themselves. I doubt, after seeing people magazine featuring head of Sony pictures calling Blake epic level stupid and having Ryan Reynolds called two of their executives “in effectual elderly people who have no idea what’s going on”….they are taking much comfort that you think it was Wayfares job or problem and not theirs - because it has became their problem.

They’re a huge company and they were caught flat footed.  I’m betting heads are rolling and they’re not saying well great job everybody this was WF fault. [/quote]

DP. Really hate to break it to you but Sony does not care that much about this. No one was fired over this. They’re a huge company that gets sued all the time. They just beat earnings by a mile. That’s what they care about. Blake is the only person losing money over this as she’s unemployable.[/quote]

I don’t believe for a minute sony doesn’t care that all these texts and emails were all over the media.

[b]This was far from a nothing burger. Sony and other studios are taking note and see the Blake creates a lot of drama and opens them up for litigation. That’s why she’s not hireable. [/b]

I don’t see how you can say this didn’t cost them money. Has your company ever been in a situation like this? Even if they are not going to trial, executives were deposed and maybe testifying - they had to turn over records. This definitely takes company time and resources to deal with.

Sony also was panicking over the Ryan Reynolds taking credit for the rooftop scene. Their lawyers sent a letter to Wayfarer urging them to give them more information because if Ryan had written a scene and he was not properly credited, that’s a violation of WGA. Blake caused all kinds of headaches for them.

Finally, it was noted early on that Sony got Blake the role in the hopes of getting in Ryan’s good graces. So they spent all this capital only to find that they likely won’t be working with Ryan Reynolds ever again. not that they would want to. But what a waste. [/quote]

It would be really sad, though not at all surprising, if all Sony took away from this is "that Blake is such a pain in the ass."[/quote]

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