‘It Ends With Us’ Halts Production After WGA Rejects Wayfarer Argument That Sony Negative Pickup Is An Indie Film
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: It Ends with Us, the Justin Baldoni-directed film that stars Blake Lively and Baldoni, looks like its production shoot has ended until the resolution of the WGA strike.
The decision was made Thursday, with less than half of the movie completed. The sole reason for the film halting was the picketing by WGA strikers.
That’s another in a growing list of movies and series shut down by picket lines that sister guilds like Teamsters and IATSE refuse to cross.
As Deadline revealed earlier this week, the film’s shoot in parts of New Jersey was disrupted and a temporary halt called while the film’s producers at Wayfarer Studios argued that because they are co-financing a film that will be a negative pickup for signatory Sony Pictures, they are following WGA guidelines and should be allowed to continue.
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