If you're not familiar with Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, its box office success We end up This may have come as a complete surprise. The film grossed $50 million in its opening weekend, and while this success may have come as a shock to anyone who had not read the source material, fans of Hoover’s novel were sure that the film version would be a huge success. In the weeks since its release, We end up She continued her successful career, and has just reached a major milestone.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, We end up The film has grossed $309 million at the worldwide box office to date, making it the highest-grossing romantic drama since the film's release. Birth of a Star The film was remade in 2018, and grossed $436.4 million worldwide. We end up It was a little cheaper to manufacture than Birth of a StarBlake Lively's film had a budget of $25 million, while Lady Gaga's Oscar-nominated film had a budget of $36 million.
It Ends With Us is the latest example of “women's movies” succeeding at the box office.
success We end up Female-centric films continue to prove how successful they are at the box office. If they are based on popular source material or have an interesting hook to use in marketing, some of these projects go a long way to proving how underserved female audiences are and that they will show up in droves for a project they truly care about. Recent examples of this include romantic comedies anyone but you ($220.2 million), mystery drama where the crayfish sing ($144.3 million) and the coming-of-age drama The Fault in Our Stars ($307.2 million). Another thing these issues have in common is their budgets, which range from relatively low to mid-level, making them a less risky investment.
We end up The film consistently made headlines throughout its box office run, and not necessarily for the reasons most films would want to draw attention to. By the time the film was released, a behind-the-scenes feud between Lively, who stars and serves as a producer on the film, and Baldoni, who co-stars with Lively and is directing the project, had become public, seemingly overshadowing the film’s more serious themes of domestic violence. Viewers online began digging up previous interviews in which Lively appeared to be acting rude, while Baldoni was heavily criticized for the rest of the cast also appearing to distance themselves from him. Lively reportedly felt uncomfortable with the director, which may have prompted Baldoni to hire a PR crisis team to help clean up his image. Since they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, this likely helped the film’s box office performance, particularly by appealing to audiences who were unfamiliar with the source material.
Due to the box office success We end upair conditioning supplement book It starts with us It should be a sure thing, but those plans are in doubt due to Lively's issues with Baldoni. While the latter doesn't have to be involved in the film or even direct it, he has an option on both books, meaning any plans for a sequel would have to include Baldoni. There's been no word on what will happen with the sequel yet, but Sony Pictures seems to be backing Lively and has said they'd love to work with her again.
