THB #647: It Ends Here - Lively/Baldoni In 10 Min Or Less

I have spent much of the holiday trying to explain the Lively/Baldoni drama to people in the industry as well as civilians. I wrote way too much about the whole thing last week (Act 1 & 2 - Act 3 - Act 4 and then, about the publicists’ battle (Pt 1/Pt 2).

To be honest, almost no one, fan of the newsletter or not, had read through all that. And it didn’t even include the dueling New Year’s Eve suits from both sides.

So on this lovely Saturday before 35% of Oscar voters watch but are uninfluenced by The Boehly Globes, I am going to boil it down as best I can.

PART I

In trying to offer this in the actual time frame, this is what came first in private… but none of the internal conflicts will become public knowledge until PART III of the story.

1. Apr 20, 2023 - Production starts on It Ends With Us

2. Various points of disagreement between Baldoni, his team, and Lively. There will be a dispute about whether there were formal HR complaints (aside from an non-participant age discrimination complaint) …