‘It Ends with Us’ notched a personal box office milestone for Blake Lively just as she celebrated her 37th birthday on Aug. 25
Blake Lively reached a career milestone via It Ends with Us.
The romantic drama is now the actress-producer’s highest-grossing movie yet, with over $242 million earned worldwide so far since its release on Aug. 9, according to Deadline.
With that total, It Ends With Us passed Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds’ 2011 superhero film The Green Lantern as her top earner. (That made just over $237 million upon its release.)
Lively’s box-office milestone does not account for her brief cameo role in Reynolds’ recent Marvel hit Deadpool & Wolverine. That movie made its mark as the highest-grossing rated-R movie ever.
Lively, who marked her 37th birthday on Aug. 25 and next stars in A Simple Favor 2, previously shared her appreciation for the movie’s fans on her Instagram Stories Aug. 13, days after the movie — adapted from author Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel — opened in theaters.
“Thank you to everyone who came out to show that people WANT to see films about women, and the multitudes we hold,” she wrote at the time. “It Ends With Us is a story of the female experience. All the highest highs, and lowest lows. And we are so proud of it. We have been in celebration of this film and of getting a message so important out there to the masses.”
“Thank you all for embracing It Ends With Us with the same love, pain and joy we had sharing it with you all,” she added.
In the film, Lively stars as a woman named Lily Bloom, whose new relationship with Ryle Kinkaid (director/costar Justin Baldoni) turns abusive before she eventually makes the decision to leave.
It Ends With Us‘ release came clouded with controversy. Rumors began swirling before the film’s release that Baldoni, 40, and Lively clashed over creative differences. Baldoni did much of his press for the movie separately from Lively.
Lively and Baldoni’s costar Brandon Sklenar, who plays Lily’s romantic interest Atlas in the film, shared a statement on Instagram Aug. 20 imploring fans to stop putting their energies into “vilifying the women” who worked on the film, seemingly in reference to the alleged drama.
“There isn’t a single person involved in the making of this film that was not aware of the responsibility we had in making this,” he wrote, in part, in that statement. “A responsibility to all the women who have experienced generational trauma – Domestic abuse – Or struggle with looking in the mirror and loving who they see.”
It Ends With Us is in theaters now.
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