Baldoni’s new website and filed in court, the movie’s director (Baldoni), 41, claims its leading lady (Lively), 37, “often” refused to go to fittings and demanded her character Lily Bloom’s outfits be “re-shopped,” thus resulting in an alleged inflated budget by $430,000.According to Baldoni’s amended complaint from his $400 million suit, Lively reportedly demanded the “costume department pack up wardrobe and deliver it to her personal residence” in Manhattan instead of traveling to the production office — roughly 15 minutes from her home — resulting in additional expenses. “Loading the wardrobe department on trucks and delivering the contents to Lively’s home in the middle of congested Manhattan for fittings cost time and money—always in short supply on any major film,” the court docs read. “Requests of this nature are typically made during contract negotiations; since Lively made no such request at the time, this added expense was not included in the budget.
Lively, who had a greater obligation to the studios as an executive producer, paid no heed to budget constraints, let alone to the months of planning that had already been completed.”The “It Ends With Us” line producer allegedly flagged the reported spending issues surrounding Lively’s wardrobe in a message dated April 25, 2023.“Wardrobe’s budget for spending is $185k,” the message allegedly read.The line producer explained that this was not normal, even for big-budget films, especially because the wardrobe team had yet to shop for the movie’s other characters.“Normally wardrobe overspends and then does tons of returns and ends up in budget.
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