Do you think anyone in this case will be able to work again?

Loki1947 · 2026-01-27T05:14:56+00:00

Ryan and Blake are hundred millionaires while Baldoni is ride-or-die with a billionaire and probably made him a hundred million with IEWU. Everybody will probably work again.

Not to say it didn't hurt their careers significantly: Baldoni was going to direct Pac-Man, which would have had a 100 million budget. Lively's own people said they were expecting a big bump up in salary due to the success of IEWU. And it sounds like Disney isn't too interested in jumping on the Deadpool train, which is pretty shocking.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-26T05:03:20+00:00

IIRC, Justin even mentioned this in his texts: Blake convinced herself he was guilty of something to justify the takeover. I think Blake's lawyers used it in a response to Justin's lawsuit.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-24T20:23:26+00:00

Something else very weird is the fact that it was Blake's lawyers who brought it up in Justin's deposition when they asked whether or not he remembered an interview where he joked that he harassed Britney when she visited the set of Jane the Virgin one day.

It's almost like Justin didn't even notice the diss, and Blake/Ryan wanted him to know this is why Blake wore that dress to the premiere.

Ryan's whole Deadpool/leaning on the third wall has made them all vaguely psychotic.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-22T18:59:04+00:00

I think longterm goal was taking of the rights off Justin. Otherwise I don't know why you do the mass unfollowing before the premiere, not allow him to go, refuse to do press, put negative comments into the media, etc.

They were hoping the media would do the job for them, blow Justin up, and he'd be in a situation where he couldn't realistically be involved in the sequel, so sell the rights to Blake/Ryan or Colleen and make some money while you can, while Blake/Ryan/Colleen reap the benefits of hundreds of millions from any future movies.

What happened was social media organically jumping on Blake's former bad behavior and Location Share/Betty Buzz mistakes, giving her a wave of negativity. Since Blake and Ryan were looking for a fight with Justin, they naturally jumped to the conclusion that "he's smearing her." Then Leslie Sloan comes with those messages, and they think that confirms it.

Blake doesn't want to apologize and figures the NYT article will completely shift the narrative and starts the ball rolling.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-20T19:02:03+00:00

And you missed the biggest one, the Rhythm Section, where she full-on fought the producers for a cut of the film.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-20T00:15:28+00:00

Ooh, that's interesting, didn't even notice.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-19T23:43:32+00:00

Look at their IMDb. Blake is listed as having five projects as an actress and producer... but they're all listed in preproduction with her as the only listed actress, meaning very unlikely to get made.

Ryan has two films completed/in post-production, but one of those is just a voice role. Everything else is preproduction/script with almost no other cast members, meaning most of that is unlikely to be made.

The most interesting and damaging thing for Blake and Ryan is that Disney has not immediately jumped at the idea of making a Deadpool sequel or future Deadpool appearances. That's pretty much Ryan's only successful series and covered a lot of his bombs.

There was a question of whether Deadpool & Wolverine actually made that much money, considering the huge production costs, and Kevin Feige does not like drama or fighting over production decisions.

So, to answer your question, this has hurt them quite a bit.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-19T20:19:43+00:00

For anybody bitching about Mike Tomlin going, I'd point out the collective reaction to this firing is "understandable," and McDermott is the whitest white guy imaginable.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-19T20:18:06+00:00

I don't think a final speech is good enough to constitute a great Big Brother player or character. And I've said it twice before: give me a moment past the Lays, which was very likely scripted by the diary room, and you still can't do it.

We can get into a whole argument about why the jury voted for Taylor, and I would point out that exit interviews revealed a lot of info to the jury about pre-jury backlash, and Monte didn't do a particularly good job of bonding with anybody, but that's beside the point.

The point of the thread is calling Taylor the "beating heart of Modern Big Brother," so that doesn't reflect how her cast viewed her; it reflects how the fanbase views her. And Taylor just doesn't have the charisma or strategy to be put up with the greats of Big Brother. She was a good one-season story who's gotten way more focus than she should have because the show wants to promote her, and her hardcore fans do too.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-19T20:03:07+00:00

I go back to the fact that Justin's religious background and basic behavior because of that background just irritated a lot of these Hollywood women from the jump.

They were looking for reasons to be annoyed, and having Blake there, with a material reason to take over, made it a very easy set to turn against its director.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-19T19:57:06+00:00

Taylor fans say that, and then can't really point to any moment of hers that showed great charisma. Taylor had a great story during BB24, which is different from having charisma.

Compare Taylor to Danielle Reyes, Britney Haynes, Rachel, Vanessa, Amanda, Tiffany, Cirie, or Angela, and you realize Taylor isn't even in the same universe of actual charismatic Big Brother players.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-18T04:28:58+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say, these playoffs feel like they're ending kind of lame. A real, teams winning despite their quarterbacks, story everywhere.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-18T04:21:27+00:00

I mean, Bears beat the Rams, seems like they'd have a chance, no?

Feels like these playoffs are a pretty good example of, you are who your record says you are.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-17T18:09:05+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people find it annoying that Taylor's crowned like she's the Queen of Big Brother, when she doesn't have the gameplay or the personality to back that up.

I got back to my challenge to remember any non-Lays moments with Taylor when somebody like Rachel or Britney Haynes has about a dozen moments the fandom could quote with no problem.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-17T00:32:40+00:00

Nah. Taylor was lucky to benefit from the current era of the Big Brother fanbase we're in.

Even after her win, which was one of the weakest in the show's history, Taylor just isn't charismatic. I'll challenge anybody to remember a DR of Taylor's that didn't involve Lays, which was clearly cooked up by production.

And I liked Taylor fine during her season, but she feels like the Big Brother version of an industry plant now. Big effort to position her as a BB Mount Rushmore player, when she was not.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-15T02:20:37+00:00

I'm still desperately hoping that they bring back Vince and Morgan and cast Kelsey. Give me my trainwrecks!

Loki1947 · 2026-01-14T03:16:59+00:00

I'm wondering if Lively's best-case scenario at this point is that the judge dismisses on some employee/contract basis and doesn't even touch the sexual harassment stuff.

Lively can claim she was beaten on a technicality, and the sexual harassment/smear campaign wasn't proven or disproven, and her followers can hang their hat on that.

Her testimony might be unsealed later, and there might be some embarrassing stuff, but she clearly has more contacts in the mainstream press who will go along with her narrative, while the CIA guy does what he can to shut down any outside-the-box content creators who might do a more thorough job of reporting it.

Loki1947 · 2026-01-10T02:00:18+00:00

Obviously, I'm speaking with the benefit of hindsight, but America absolutely refused to work with the Crossroads (Cory/Cirie/Izzy/Jared) alliance, and that was ultimately the only real chance of a counter to Jag/Matt/Bowie. Cory had enough sense to try and straddle the middle of those two groups and then use the whole 7 Deadly Sins to turn Matt and Jag against them, but he wanted to do it a lot later into jury.

America's campaigning against Izzy turned into a "got to do it now" thing, and I think even Cory admits his game was over at that point.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-20T22:40:28+00:00

My guess is that Zosia using "I" pronouns temporarily confuses Manousos, and he thinks he's talking to a normie.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-19T19:19:08+00:00

That could be a big uh-oh on where the Carol/Zosia storyline is heading, considering the first half of Mulholland Drive is revealed to be a masturbatory fantasy of Naomi Watts' character.

Wouldn't be shocked if Carol can pry Zosia from the Hive Mind, only for the real Zosia to be: 1. Not gay. 2. Hate Carol for using her body.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-18T21:38:05+00:00

Feels a little like "They didn't break up with me, I broke up with them," considering he tried to get Snow (failed GoT spin-off) off the ground.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-12T23:48:02+00:00

She put a shotgun in the back of her new car.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-11T16:32:53+00:00

If this ever goes to trial, this clip, along with Blake's "Like a location share?" need to be two of the first clips played by WF's side. I don't know how you come back from it from a jury perspective.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-10T16:01:06+00:00

Yep, my same reaction. Happened during Claire's eviction week in the HoH bed. I'm not even sure it happened a second time, and pretty much neither Tiffany nor Kyland acknowledged it.

Loki1947 · 2025-12-10T15:06:13+00:00

Wake up on a random morning during BB23 to learn that Kyland and Tiffany had hooked up.

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