celeb news Justin Baldoni hires Johnny Depp's Crisis PR team amid Blake Lively rift

[Princess Aurora]

24 minutes ago, Reginald said:

Everyone forgot about James Charles showing hole, this is Blake Lively's world 

 

I-

[MattieB]

1 minute ago, Paultea said:

The industry is allegedly fully backing Lively in this so the takedown is not coming from them. It appeared that mostly fans started to create tiktoks and got this ball rolling. But now that I hear this, I can see it being heavily influenced by PR firms. There have been so many instances of these "grassroots" type of PR hits in the last decade that make it seem that its being organically carried by caring fans across social media when it's not. To them it's all about gaining the upper hand first. The actual truth is inconsequential. 

There's no alleged here, the Sony Chief (I'm 100% sure with influence from Ryan via deadpool) released a statement in praise of Blake a few hours ago, they have chosen a side and it more than shows. He has been singled out, not very much unlike the abysmal interview Blake had with the Norwegian reporter that resurfaced a few days ago

[freshoutthebuffet]

12 minutes ago, MattieB said:

Justin BALDONI's grandfather is an indian, be serious. He most definitely isn't caucasian, or at the very least fully white

https://app.inside-info.com/coffee/justin-baldoni-indian.html

Why are you spiraling like this lmfao

[MattieB]

Just now, freshoutthebuffet said:

Why are you spiraling like this lmfao

Ah! And he attempts (unsuccessfully) to move the goalpost

[MattieB]

25 minutes ago, Taylor fanboy said:

I will never side with anyone who hires the team who used psychological warfare on Amber Heard. 

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=9657867121c4e27e&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIL6WDjfVeHubEgHYMrDrEXXlCQXsw:1723734730474&q=taylor+swift+and+blake+lively&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J_86uWOeqwdnV0yaSF-x2joQcoZ-0Q2Udkt2zEybT7HdnwtJ4zecPSJKnTlqcRa4FoY6IQ1phfWUddisLARZKQNsIcEpmcR8vCKVOenGsqvjHqwnoZgpAgCDbU6Ze8gQOtid8_0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj74a-ipPeHAxXjQUEAHfKyLB8QtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1536&bih=776&dpr=1.25#vhid=PglQJxh-Q2M0MM&vssid=mosaic

[JoJo]

It's hypocritical that he's working with the team that destroyed Amber Heard's reputation as a DV victim, but I also can't fault him for hiring a PR team since he's up against a Hollywood power couple that could potentially destroy his career. Either way, the PR battle is going to be nasty. 

[Phaunzie]

And how is that a bad thing? If anything, this is smart. Justin is clearly making the right moves to make sure his career doesn't sink into the pits of irrelevancy. Also, the movie is bad, the source material is horrendous, the author of the source material is known to romanticise abuse scenarios and other taboo topics (teacher-student romance), and the promotion of the film is extremely tone-deaf. And do you know who is at the centre of that tone-deaf concoction, Miss Lively of course. 

 

Also the girls acting like this controversy came out of nowhere, clearly are stuck in a bubble. NO ONE likes Colleen Hoover besides trad wives and soccer moms, her books are a stain on literature. They are gross, honestly. This film was going to get people mad but the frustration came from Lively, the co-executive producer, using her sway to give us a tone-deaf romance story. In the book, the power dynamics are way worse, because the main character is in her 20s (with Ryle stalking this girl). It was clear from the icing of Justin that the rumours were true that Justin was pigeonholed into directing Lively version of the story.

 

 

[Katamari]

1 hour ago, Reginald said:

Everyone forgot about James Charles showing hole, this is Blake Lively's world 

 

How is there no thread about that

[DanyelP23]

I feel like the people who try to take a stance solely on "he hired Johnny Depp's PR so it must mean he is guilty/bad" are either innocent / stupid / gullible or love to serve performative outrage.

Obviously if you find yourself into a PR "crisis"/"situation" (which with regards to the info available at the moment - it was not started by him) you are going to try and hire whoever is the best in the industry.

[Janet]

1 hour ago, MattieB said:

Justin BALDONI's grandfather is an indian, be serious. He most definitely isn't caucasian, or at the very least fully white

https://app.inside-info.com/coffee/justin-baldoni-indian.html

Oh wow. No wonder I was always so attracted to him

[Trent W]

1 hour ago, DanyelP23 said:

I feel like the people who try to take a stance solely on "he hired Johnny Depp's PR so it must mean he is guilty/bad" are either innocent / stupid / gullible or love to serve performative outrage.

Obviously if you find yourself into a PR "crisis"/"situation" (which with regards to the info available at the moment - it was not started by him) you are going to try and hire whoever is the best in the industry.

Yes, that people lack critical thinking and have a hard time formulating their own point of view

 

Sadly is most of the internet.

 

Also Cancel culture these days is nothing more than a smear campaign 

 

PR firms pay influencers to talk about stuff on tiktok and twitter

[Inverted]

4 hours ago, Paultea said:

The industry is allegedly fully backing Lively in this so the takedown is not coming from them. It appeared that mostly fans started to create tiktoks and got this ball rolling. But now that I hear this, I can see it being heavily influenced by PR firms. There have been so many instances of these "grassroots" type of PR hits in the last decade that make it seem that its being organically carried by caring fans across social media when it's not. To them it's all about gaining the upper hand first. The actual truth is inconsequential. 

The media isn't just industry-controlled print media and TV anymore like in the days of the Madonna, Mariah, J.Lo/Bennifer 1.0 and Britney's takedowns; it now includes supposedly "user-driven" social media also and there is no such thing as any completely organic media. Contrary to popular belief, plenty of those TikTok videos and comments, Reddit comments and blind items are non-truths or half-truths pushed by outside sources whether it's initiated by regular people who are delulu stans, people who hate celebs/rich people, or people in the industry (often all of the above).

 

And yes, the truth doesn't matter. All media, marketing, PR, etc. is about shaping people's perceptions and their feelings towards subjects, not the actual truth. The only assumption I'm making is that they're both ego-driven types (like all celebrities) who couldn't get along with each other because they were fighting for creative control of the movie.

Edited August 15 by Inverted

[Paultea]

5 minutes ago, Inverted said:

The media isn't just industry-controlled print media and TV anymore like in the days of Madonna, Mariah, Bennifer 1.0 and Britney's takedowns; it includes supposedly "user-driven" social media also and there is no such thing as any completely organic media. Contrary to popular belief, plenty of those TikTok videos and comments, Reddit comments and blind items are non-truths or half-truths pushed by outside sources whether it's initiated by regular people who are delulu stans, people who hate celebs/rich people, or people in the industry (often all of the above).

 

And yes, the truth doesn't matter. All media, marketing, PR, etc. is about shaping people's perceptions and their feelings towards subjects, not the actual truth. The only assumption I'm making is that they're both ego-driven types (like all celebrities) who couldn't get along with each other and were fighting for creative control of the movie.

I wish people would understand that though. They aren't seeing a "true" salacious story about someone organically just because it's not coming from a journalist online. People weirdly have a high trust of TikTok now when it comes to this. I worked in PR for a few years and had to pivot to something else because of how truly evil it felt sometimes. Thank god it wasn't really any serious situations, but having people concoct stories was a weird environment to be around. 

 

The only time recently I have seen a true grassroots effort was the Free Britney movement, at least thats how I viewed it. Her own people were trying to kill it and as far as I know she wasn't in a position to hire independent PR to start stoking those fires. It may have started from delulu stans, but they were absolutely right. 

[AlbumOfTheYear]

 

According to reports, Ryan and Blake basically bulldozed him out of the movie he was DIRECTING AND FINANCED? 

Plantation Barbie and that jackass clearly started meddling in the production and they're slandering him. Its no secret that Blake is a stuck up, out of touch bad actress and that Ryan is an egomaniac and a controlling tool.