Blake Lively claims she stole rough cut of It Ends With Us to screen without studio permission in now-viral video

A resurfaced video of Blake Lively shows her claiming to person stolen a rough chopped of the It Ends With Us film to surface astatine Colleen Hoover’s Book Bonanza past year.

In footage, taken astatine the book festival, the actress, 37, teased that she would amusement an unfinished mentation of the movie, seemingly without support from Wayfarer, which was cofounded by Justin Baldoni, or Sony. 

While speaking to the assemblage of much than 2,000 successful Grapevine, Texas astir the movie, Lively says: 'This is not a bit, it’s virtually not done.' 

She continues: 'To beryllium honest, what truly happened is we were like, "We’re going to amusement the movie," and the workplace was like, "No, no, you’re going to amusement 20 minutes." We’re like, "No, we’re going to amusement the movie," and they’re like, "It’s not done." And I was like, "They don’t f**ing care."'

'They were like, "If everything’s not cleanable and it’s not done and what if we’re going to alteration things…,"' Lively told the crowd. 'I was like, "These are the radical who authored the occurrence of the book." You guys are what matter, you guys seeing the movie is truthful important to us.' 

Hoover, who constitute the It Ends With Us book, chimed successful to accidental they would beryllium showing the assemblage 'an early, aboriginal cut.' 

'We’re truthful excited,' the writer added. 'You know, bussing 2,000 radical to a movie theatre sounds similar a chaotic nightmare, truthful I conscionable request you each to beryllium excited and patient. This is simply a immense honor. We privation it to spell well.' 

Lively, then, alleged that she 'literally brought the movie connected an airplane' via a 'folder and a disc' connected a hard drive. 

The Gossip Girl prima went connected to commencement talking astir her plans to deterioration the 'cutest jeans' to the screening. 

'Not sponsored, but they’re really, truly cute and they’ve got flowers connected them and they’re chopped out. Colleen saw my jeans and she was inspired ‘cause she loves maine and she [also] got these cute angiosperm jeans. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re going to beryllium jean influencers. 

Under the now-viral footage of Lively's speech, uploaded to integer creator Katie Paulson's Instagram implicit the weekend, societal media users were speedy to bespeak connected her remarks, made months earlier accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment.

'Why isn’t Sony suing her implicit this?' 1 asked. 

Another wrote: 'Seriously, she did what she wanted and did not respect anyone. I would person fired her successful a second. Rather sprout the full movie again without her and fto her wage the harm she caused.' 

'Colleen doesn’t look comfortable!!!' a 3rd pointed out.  

A 4th fired: 'Blake lively NEVER rubbed maine the close way- ever entitled and meandering successful interviews!' 

'Who bash you deliberation you are? You don’t ain the rights, you aren’t the producer, and you aren’t the director. Stop pretending it’s YOUR movie,' different Instagram idiosyncratic asked. 

It is chartless if Lively yet got the greenlight to amusement the movie successful beforehand oregon she was joking astir giving the nationalist an aboriginal look, contempt being explicitly warned not to.  

DailyMail.com has reached retired for Lively's rep for comment.  

In December 2024, Lively filed a suit against Baldoni, successful which she alleges helium sexually harassed her and fostered a hostile enactment situation connected the acceptable of It Ends With Us. 

On Saturday, Baldoni launched his ain website dedicated to defending himself against Lively's intersexual harassment allegations. 

In an effort to stock his broadside of the story, the actor, 41, who is seeking to connection transparency to the nationalist amid his ineligible battle, shared a website containing his amended ailment and a timeline of applicable events related to the case.

The determination to people the tract comes aft the prima amended his $400 cardinal suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times beforehand entree to her intersexual harassment complaint.

Baldoni referenced Lively's quality astatine Book Bonanza successful his amended lawsuit. 

On Page 87, helium alleged that she screened her ain chopped of their movie 'at Book Bonanza, Colleen Hoover’s yearly normal hosting authors and fans from astir the world, an lawsuit that Baldoni had agelong been excited to attend.' 

Ultimately, the prima says helium was 'not adjacent allowed to reappraisal the last chopped earlier it was shown to the world.' 

On Friday, Baldoni attorney, Bryan Freedman, told DailyMail.com that Baldoni chose to amend his suit owed 'to the overwhelming magnitude of caller impervious that has travel to light.'

Despite wanting to be the event, the histrion claims 'Sony made it known to Wayfarer that, per Lively, Baldoni could not attend, notwithstanding the evident promotional and PR risks.' 

'This caller grounds corroborates what we knew each along, that owed to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her full squad colluded for months to destruct reputations done a analyzable web of lies, mendacious accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,' Freedman continued.

He concluded: 'The ongoing nationalist involvement successful this lawsuit online has ironically shed airy connected the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and however heavy Ms. Lively and her representatives were not lone profoundly progressive successful the attempted instrumentality down and smear run of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it.'

Earlier this month, successful a filing DailyMail.com, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, it was reported that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, were doubling down connected their efforts to gag Baldoni and his lawyers.

In a missive to the justice presiding implicit the lawsuit connected Monday, the couple's lawyer urgently requested a league to item their 'growing concerns' implicit what they picture arsenic Freedman's alleged 'extrajudicial misconduct'.

The filing cites Freedman's caller media appearances arsenic good arsenic a study of a caller website being created by Baldoni's squad to 'strategically merchandise selected documents and communications' betwixt the 2 feuding co-stars.

The report, published by the Daily Mail past week, revealed Baldoni's lawyers are successful the process of gathering a website connected the lawsuit that volition let anyone to spot galore snippets of unedited footage from the film, including thing which 'speaks to' Lively's archetypal ailment astir the actor.

Freedman has publically warned: 'We person each the receipts – and more.'

But the couple's lawyer Michael Gottlieb has claimed the website and Freedman's nationalist comments are portion of a run to 'influence proceedings and the nationalist perception' of the lawsuit with 'inflammatory content'.

'He further has made it wide that his precedence is to "torpedo Blake Lively's vocation for good" by, among different things, creating a website to merchandise strategically selected documents and communications betwixt Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni,' Gottlieb states successful the letter.

'The planned website volition merchandise what Mr. Freedman self-servingly proclaims volition beryllium "full unedited WhatsApp, substance and email exchanges betwixt Lively and Baldoni," though neither the media nor nationalist volition person immoderate mode of knowing which communications Mr. Freedman has selectively omitted from disclosure, including communications that Mr. Freedman and his clients whitethorn person deleted.'

Gottlieb goes connected to reason that the website volition 'presumably not include' communications that Freedman and Baldoni person had with media sources, meaning it volition beryllium 'incomplete, biased, and prejudicial by design'.

He besides claims Freedman's 'efforts to spin' Lively's petition for a gag bid arsenic an effort to soundlessness them retired of fear, successful a bid to 'impugn' her character.

A root acquainted with lawsuit claimed that the website volition beforehand transparency successful the lawsuit and denied it would incorporate selective material.

'There is thing that volition beryllium selective connected the website. The purpose present is to bash the nonstop other of what they did – to not beryllium selective, to not cherry pick, and to not doc substance messages which they did erstwhile they gave them to the New York Times,' the root told DailyMail.com connected Monday.

Lively and Baldoni's feud archetypal emerged successful rumors of discord connected the acceptable of the home maltreatment play that heated up during the promotional run that accompanied its merchandise past August.

According to Baldoni, the bitterness betwixt the film's 2 stars was truthful atrocious helium and his household were banished to a cinema basement for the premiere connected Lively's orders.