While It Ends With Us hit theaters back in the summer of 2024, the book-to-screen adaptation has continued to make headlines. This is largely because the drama film (which is streaming with a Netflix subscription) is synonymous with the long legal battle between Blake Lively and director/star Justin Baldoni. The back and forth has been going on for years, and Baldoni's lawyers recently reacted after the judge threw out the majority of the Gossip Girl star's claims. Let's break it all down.
The situation began when Lively filed a complaint against Wayfarer Studios, making a number of bold claims about her co-star and director. Baldoni responded with a defamation case, and there have been a ton of updates since. The most recent comes to us via People, which reports Judge Lewis J. Liman has dismissed 10 out of Lively's 13 claims against him. This is a big deal for the Jane the Virgin actor, and his lawyers issued a statement which reads:
