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| | Sony full supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 92 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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What does this Blake Lively stuff remind you of? For me, it?s sort of like the Hilaria Baldwin stuff in late 2020 and early 2021 suddenly, people were going back through all of Hilaria?s old interviews and doing deep dives on all of the Hilaria-was-never-Spanish lore. While Blake Lively never lied about being ?from Spain,? there is a similar deep-dive into the gossip history around Blake. Like? what was up with Blake and Leighton Meester on Gossip Girl? They apparently didn?t get along at all towards the latter part of the series, so much so they the would barely even speak to each other. The Mail is on the case go here to read.
Meanwhile, the current Blake situation is that we still don?t know exactly what went down between Blake, Justin Baldoni and the cast of It Ends With Us. Many people around the production maintain this idea that Baldoni and Lively?s larger falling out happened in postproduction, especially when Blake brought in her own editor to create IEWU: The Lively Cut. It was also clear (to me) that Team Blake had already started an increasingly loud whisper campaign about Baldoni, one which scared him enough to hire a crisis management team this week. Well, speaking of all of that, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece about the studio giving a lot of full-throated support for Blake, especially after she screened IEWU: The Lively Cut to Colleen Hoover?s groupies in Texas in June.
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie ? the first of Hoover?s popular novels to hit the screen ? proved to be a stroke of marketing genius for Sony, which bought rights to release the movie from Wayfarer Studios, whose co-founder, Justin Baldoni, both directed and stars in the film.
?Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza and her fans sparked the fire that was the beginning of the cultural movement,? says Josh Greenstein, a veteran marketer and president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.
Absent, however, from the Dallas gathering was Baldoni. The version shown that night was Lively?s preferred rough cut of the movie.
By the time the movie opened Aug. 9, an ugly war had erupted on TikTok and other social media platforms pitting Baldoni and Lively against each other. Many took aim at Lively, despite reports that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt uncomfortable over Baldoni?s behavior on set.
Sony is fully in sync with Lively. ?Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. Blake?s passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence is commendable,? Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra told The Hollywood Reporter. ?We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.?
Sony?s marketing campaign ? in staying true to Hoover?s book ? conveyed that It Ends With Us isn?t a story of victimhood, but a story of redemption. It traverses falling in love, becoming an entrepreneur, friendship and family, alongside pain and trauma. ?Lily is a survivor and a victim, but that doesn?t define her, as she is in charge of her identity and her story. These themes were important to the campaign,? says one source connected to the film?s rollout.
Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the postproduction stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, according to multiple sources.
[From THR]
This reads to me like why Baldoni hired crisis managers in the first place, because he was afraid he was going to get squished by the studio taking Blake?s side and throwing him under the bus. Sony is obviously doing the most to stay on Blake?s good side, and not only that, Sony is seemingly doing a lot (here and behind-the-scenes) to keep the arguments from devolving into petty, personal attacks. It suits everyone involved if the story is ?Blake and Justin disagreed about which edit to use, that?s the big problem? rather than ?Justin fat-shamed Blake and gave her a lingering kiss? or ?Blake is a mean-girl bully.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Mariska Hargitay helped raise the money to solve thousands of sex crimes | | Added 92 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Mariska Hargitay is a really, really good egg. Not only has she been delighting us as Captain Olivia Benson for 25 years on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she?s spent that tenure bringing her work home with her in the most productive and impactful way possible. Moved by fans recounting their rape survival stories to her, Mariska established the Joyful Heart Foundation, through which she launched the End the Backlog initiative that discovered hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits in police stations across the country. In working to reform rape kit usage, Mariska met prosecutor Kym Worthy. In fact, Mariska helped secure the funding necessary to test 11,000 kits Kym had found in a Michigan evidence room, which led to solving thousands of sex crimes in that state alone. Dateline host Andrea Canning just appeared on the Today show to tout the latest Dateline podcast that focuses on Kym and Mariska?s work:
Mariska Hargitay hasn?t reserved her impressive detective skills for the TV screen ? she also solves some cases in real life too.
Recently, Dateline NBC?s Andrea Canning joined the Today show to discuss the newest episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly and revealed that Hargitay, 60, helped one Michigan prosecutor with thousands of sexual assault cases.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star funded prosecutor Kym Worthy on her path to solving thousands of cases. Worthy first discovered that over 11,000 untested rape kits were sitting on a shelf in an evidence room. She took matters into her own hands and worked to get all of them tested.
However, money was needed to get all of these kits tested, and as Canning said, ?So, who stepped in? None other than Law and Order?s Mariska Hargitay.?
Canning, 51, explained that the actress ?helped them raise the money to get this done.? As a result, thousands of cases were solved and they discovered 22 serial rapists.
The Dateline broadcaster also noted that Worthy and Hargitay?s work is ?having a ripple effect across the country [and] is making changes everywhere ? for police departments and for prosecutors? offices.?
This isn?t Hargitay?s first time assisting real law enforcement. Earlier this year, in April, while filming one of the final episodes of season 25 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she was approached by a little girl who believed her to be a real police officer based on the badge she wore as part of her character?s outfit.
At the time, a witness told PEOPLE that the little girl had been separated from her mother in the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park and asked the actress for help. Hargitay obliged and then halted production for 20 minutes to help the child locate her mother and to console them both.
The witness noted that the young girl was both oblivious to the film crew and Hargitay?s scene partner, Ice-T.
[From People]
Everytime we get to cover Mariska Hargitay it is such a tonic. Her goodness is so authentic! There?s no inflated ego, or sense that she?s doing this for her own PR. By her own account, she felt like her acting job opened a door to work she had no prior intention of pursuing, but could not turn away from once it entered her life. She?s previously described it as ?I didn?t take this job on SVU to do this work. But I think I was meant to do this.? The older I get the more I see that as an art in itself: to be able to embrace a path that takes you by surprise. I?m also now really hoping that we see Mariska at the convention next week. She?s such a strong advocate for the biggest issues at stake in this election: women?s rights and reproductive rights. You know, normal things.
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| | Kim Kardashian is single, but her kids want her to date someone famous | | Added 92 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Have I gotten really good at ignoring Kim Kardashian or has she been relatively quiet for months? She appeared at the Met Gala in May, she went to a wedding in India and? like, there?s been no real news or gossip about her in a while? Minus the gossip about how she sliced the top of her finger off. All of which to say, Kim has been out and about in New York this week and it feels like we haven?t seen her in months.
She wore a Miu Miu ensemble out to the Polo Bar (yellow sleeveless top and brown pants). North West is also with her on this trip, as is their dog?? Let me look this up? North West has two Pomeranians, Sushi and Sake. I hope North is taking good care of those dogs because Kim has a terrible track record with pets (RIP Mercy Kardashian-West). Kim was also spotted around 30 Rock, and she turned up on the Tonight Show on Wednesday:
People really do love SKIMS. Even people who dislike Kim sort of begrudgingly admit that SKIMS has some good stuff. Kim also talked about her new Ryan Murphy series, but the big headline is about her love life. She says she?s single and her kids are ready for her to date and they keep trying to set her up with people. Like, they?re creating lists of ?dream boyfriends for mom.? I like that Kim isn?t ready to jump into anything though. I do wonder who she?ll date next? my assumption has always been that her endgame-partner would be a lawyer or someone who reminds her of her dad.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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