Justin Baldoni makes determination over Scarlett Johansson film amid drama together with her ex Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni made a surprising determination over attending the impending Cannes Film Festival with Scarlett Johansson.

Amid his ongoing prison drama together with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, the 41-year-old actor is probably not attending the Cannes premiere of Eleanor the Great.

A supply solely showed to DailyMail.com: ‘Justin Baldoni has determined to skip the Cannes premiere of his new Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut movie that Justin govt produced.’

The insider added: ‘Wayfarer Studios will proceed to champion this movie, and they are going to have a presence on the competition to improve the solid and filmmakers.’ 

This comes amid issues that Johansson’s characteristic directorial debut might be ‘overshadowed’ by way of the drama involving her ex-husband Reynolds and Lively — who has been at the press excursion for her new film Another Simple Favor.

Even despite the fact that his movie is in pageant, Baldoni is opting for to step again to as he and his manufacturing corporate were locked in a contentious prison struggle with Reynolds and Lively over her and Baldoni’s film It Ends With Us.

Johannson shall be making her characteristic movie directorial debut with Eleanor the Great at Cannes on May 20. The movie is financed by way of Wayfarer, who may be some of the manufacturing firms, and Baldoni is an govt manufacturer; pictured April in New York City

Lively has accused Baldoni and Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath of sexual harassment, and moreover alleged she was once topic to a focused smear marketing campaign within the run-up to the discharge of It Ends With Us. 

Baldoni then introduced a $400 million defamation lawsuit towards Lively, Reynolds and the New York Times, which reported her first declare. 

Wayfarer and Baldoni have been dropped by way of their company amid the mounting drama, which resources with reference to him say price him ‘3 jobs and loads of tens of millions of bucks,’ by the use of the Hollywood Reporter. 

Late remaining month, famed lawyer Lisa Bloom has solely advised DailyMail.com how the swirling exposure across the feud may just probably splash again on Johansson’s film. 

‘The luck or failure of this Baldoni produced movie shall be extremely related in court docket,’ Bloom noticed of Johansson’s new challenge.

‘If it flops, Baldoni will blame the Blake Lively lawsuit and level to the failure for example of the tens of millions of bucks in damages he is looking for,’ she famous.

‘If it succeeds, his concept that he simply cannot make it in Hollywood on account of Blake Lively shall be obliterated,’ Bloom added.

‘And be expecting ScarJo and different giant names at the movie to be subpoenaed to testify on the Lively-Baldoni trial as to the cash he makes from the movie, and whether or not the case actually price him up to he says.’

Amid his ongoing prison drama together with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, the 41-year-old actor is probably not attending the Cannes premiere of Eleanor the Great 

Reynolds and Johansson married in 2008 and introduced their cut up in 2010, two years prior to he tied the knot with Lively, with whom he now has 4 kids; pictured June 2010 in New York City

This comes amid issues that Johansson’s characteristic directorial debut might be ‘overshadowed’ by way of the drama involving her ex-husband Reynolds and Lively — who has been at the press excursion for her new film Another Simple Favor; pictured August 2024 in New York City

Even despite the fact that his movie is in pageant, Baldoni is opting for to step again to as he and his manufacturing corporate were locked in a contentious prison struggle with Reynolds and Lively over her and Baldoni’s film It Ends With Us; pictured January 2024 in Jersey City

Lively has accused Baldoni and Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath of sexual harassment, and moreover alleged she was once topic to a focused smear marketing campaign within the run-up to the discharge of It Ends With Us; pictured August 2024 in New York City

Baldoni then introduced a $400 million defamation lawsuit towards Lively, Reynolds and the New York Times, which reported her first declare

The lawyer, whose mom is the vaunted feminist legal professional Gloria Allred, stated: ‘I additionally suspect the movie’s free up shall be overshadowed by way of press questions concerning the Lively-Baldoni prison battle, which slogs on.’

Bloom is not any stranger to circumstances involving sexual misconduct allegations, having served as an lawyer for girls who accused Bill O’Reilly of harassment.

She additionally controversially prompt Harvey Weinstein because the claims towards him first started to collect steam forward of the outbreak of the Me Too motion.

Bloom has represented 5 alleged Jeffrey Epstein sufferers and two plaintiffs who say they have been sexually assaulted by way of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who has strenuously denied the cascade of accusations towards him.

In 2018 she acted as suggest for Janice Dickinson, who sued Bill Cosby for defamation after his legal professional stated she was once mendacity when she accused the comedian of getting drugged and raped her within the 1980s.

The defamation case resulted in what Bloom hailed as an ‘epic’ agreement, pronouncing Dickinson could be ‘totally compensated for being referred to as a liar,’ by the use of CNN.

Late remaining month, famed lawyer Lisa Bloom has solely advised DailyMail.com how the swirling exposure across the feud may just probably splash again on Johansson’s film; Lively and Baldoni pictured in It Ends With Us film nonetheless

‘And be expecting ScarJo and different giant names at the movie to be subpoenaed to testify on the Lively-Baldoni trial,’ the insider stated concerning the ongoing prison drama surrounding the previous co-stars’ romantic drama; pictured in It Ends With Us film nonetheless

Reynolds and Johansson married in 2008 and introduced their cut up in 2010, two years prior to he tied the knot with Lively, with whom he now has 4 kids.

Johansson, who’s now married to Saturday Night Live superstar Colin Jost, has made her characteristic movie directorial debut with Eleanor The Great.

The film stars 95-year-old June Squibb because the identify persona, a nonagenarian girl who strikes again to New York from Florida after her best possible buddy dies.

With a solid that incorporates 12 Years A Slave lead Chiwetel Ejiofor, Eleanor The Great is slated to premiere within the Un Certain Regard segment at Cannes in May.

Johansson has no longer publicly addressed the Lively-Baldoni drama, however her husband made a comic story about it on Saturday Night Live remaining month.

During a comic book riff on Donald Trump’s explosive Oval Office argument with Volodymyr Zelensky, Jost quipped that the Ukrainian president ‘stated he thinks he can nonetheless salvage his courting with President Trump, which is like Justin Baldoni pronouncing: “I’d love to work with Blake again.”‘