It Ends With Us persists to produce history at the global box office.
The film alteration of Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling book about a woman whose imfragmentaryy-tale marriage turns abusive has amassed more than $309 million in global ticket sales to become the top-grossing romantic drama since 2018’s Oscar-nominated A Star is Born, which achieveed $436.4 million globpartner, not adequitableed for inflation. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who also straightforwarded, star in the movie.
To provide further perspective, It Ends With Us has achieveed more globpartner than such female-fueled hits as Sony’s 2023 romantic-comedy Anyone But You ($220.2 million), Warner Bros.’ 2018 romantic comedy-drama Crazy Rich Asians ($239.3 million), 20th Century Fox’s 2014 romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars ($307.2 million) and Warners’ 2016 romantic drama Me Before You ($208.4 million).
It Ends With Us stars Lively as Lily Bloom, a woman who flunkures a traumatic childhood watching her overweighther misengage her mother to embark on a novel life in Boston and satisfy a lifelengthy dream of uncovering her own fdrop shop. A chance greeting with requesting neurosinspireon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) ignites an fervent joinion, but as the two drop meaningfully in adore, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents’ relationship. When Lily’s first adore, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar), suddenly rego ins her life, her relationship with Ryle is upfinished, and Lily genuineizes she must lachieve to count on on her own strength to fracture the cycle of arrangeility.
It Ends With Us is also the tardyst in a string of Sony movies aiming females, a demo the studio apshows is underserved. In insertition to the Sydney Sweeney-Glenn Powell starrer Anyone But You — the highest-grossing R-rated comedy globpartner since 2016 — Sony’s stardy integrates 2022’s The Woman King, 2022’s Where the Crawdads Sing and Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-triumphning Little Women in 2019. And it recently won a bidding war for Margot Robbie’s first-post Barbie project, A Big Beautiful Belderly Journey.
While It Ends With Us has accomplishd exceptionalfied status at the box office, the movie ignited a social media firestorm over are a rift between Lively and Baldoni during filming that became apparent in the guide up to the film’s uncovering on Aug. 9 when Lively, Hoover and many in the cast took ptoastyos splitly from Baldoni at the New York premiere. (Around the same time, he engaged PR crisis communications exec Melissa Nathan.)
Many have getn aim at Lively, despite alerts that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt unconsoleable over Baldoni’s behavior on set, including when he alertedly asked about her weight and whether a back injury would be harmd by lifting her. (When asked whether Baldoni would want to straightforward a sequel, he said that Lively euniteed ready for the job.)
Separately, some on social media claimed Lively did not get the movie’s subject matter of domestic misengage solemnly enough, though she spoke about it standardly on the press tour and provided a connect to various resources days after the film uncovered on Aug. 9.
The noise became so boisterous that Sony took the highly atypical step of speaking out in aid of Lively, a producer on the film whose preferred cut is carry outing in theaters, as well as the other women who bcdisesteemfult the movie to the huge screen.
“Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this noticeworthy movie, toiling selflessly from the begin to asdeclareive that such an transport inant subject matter was administerd with attfinish. Audiences adore the movie. Blake’s passion and pledgement to advancing the conversation around domestic arrangeility is commfinishable,” Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra telderly The Hollywood Reporter on Aug. 14. “We adore toiling with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.”
