Despite being released in the summer of 2024, the drama surrounding It Ends With Us (which is streaming with a Netflix subscription) is showing no signs of slowing down. The book-to-screen adaptation did well in theaters, but Blake Lively's lawsuit against Wayfarer Studios kick-started a long legal battle that's still going on today. Some documents about the case were recently unsealed, and Anne Hathaway's name was dropped. So what's going on here?
Shortly after the Gossip Girl star's complaint was filed, director/actor Justin Baldoni filed a defamation suit against both Lively and Ryan Reynolds. In unsealed documents related to the case, e-mails between Sony execs Tony Vinciquerra and Tom Rothman were revealed (via Us Magazine), where they referenced the backlash at Lively related to the movie's promotions. When Vinciquerra defended her in a new story, Rothman responded via e-mail, saying:
