{"id":386112,"date":"2026-01-23T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:20:11","slug":"blake-lively-bashed-by-sony-execs-over-it-ends-with-us-lawsuits-ryan-reynolds-fires-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386112\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Bashed by Sony Execs Over It Ends With Us Lawsuits, Ryan Reynolds Fires Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Sony Pictures<\/a> executives have been caught bashing Blake Lively<\/a> in regard to the It Ends With Us<\/a> legal battle drama.<\/p>\n

Some text and email conversations regarding the It Ends With Us legal battle have now been made public following the scandal that erupted in 2024 between Lively and Justin Baldoni<\/a>. Both Lively and Baldoni star in the movie that adapts Colleen Hoover\u2019s 2016 novel, while Baldoni also directed it.<\/p>\n

What did the Sony execs and Ryan Reynolds say about the Blake Lively It Ends With Us lawsuits?<\/p>\n

Per Variety<\/a>, several executives have now been caught bashing Lively in these now-public messages.<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group President Sandford Panitch said in August 2024 in regard to the situation when Lively had Baldoni banned from the red carpet of the film\u2019s New York premiere, \u201cShe did it to herself. If she just let him come to the premiere, or didn\u2019t make all the cast unfollow him or kick him off the movie, and did what everyone ever has done in show business for time and memorial which is protect \u2018the show\u2019 then none of the sleuthing would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201csleuthing\u201d refers to the non-stop coverage and social media investigations that began after the scandal started.<\/p>\n

Panitch also said of Lively\u2019s decision to launch a haircare and alcohol marketing campaigns during the It Ends With Us press tour, \u201cThe hair sell at the same time was epic level stupid. She wouldn\u2019t listen. She knows better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman said that Lively didn\u2019t deserve all the heat that she got; however, he did also say in an email, \u201cShe did bring it all on herself by refusing to listen to advice\u2026and by selling her products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures Entertainment Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer Tahra Grant said in August 2024, \u201cShe orchestrated all this drama in a totally unsavvy and amateur way (and basically threatened\u2026Sony) and now is mad it backfired on her.\u201d Meanwhile, Ange Gianetti, a Sony Pictures executive who was overseeing the movie, referred to Lively as a \u201cterrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, who is married to Lively and is involved in the legal situation, fired back against these comments. The documents show that the Deadpool star called the Sony executives \u201cf\u2014ing textbook, ineffectual elderly people with no ideas or thoughtful communication skills. Just blunt instruments with six catchphrases and about 5 key words.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Sony Pictures executives have been caught bashing Blake Lively in regard to the It Ends With Us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17860,6491,96,25485,17859,6462,16255,33459,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blake-lively","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-it-ends-with-us","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-movie-news","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-sony-pictures","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}