Blake Lively'sIt Ends With UsImpresses with Nearly $200 Million at Worldwide Box Office amid Cast Drama

Mar. 15, 2025

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in “It Ends with Us”.Photo:Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures Entertainment

Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures Entertainment

It Ends With Uscontinues to wow at the box office.The romantic drama, a Colleen Hoover adaptation starringBlake Lively, debuted last weekend with a better-than-expected $50 million opening at the domestic box office. This past weekend, it’s second weekend, it added an estimated $24 million domestically, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.Additionally,Varietyreported thatIt Ends With Usnow has a global box office total of over $180 million since its release, adding that the film was made on a budget of about $25 million.Ryan ReynoldsandHugh Jackman’s superhero sequelDeadpool & Wolverine(now the highest grossing R-rated film of all time) came just ahead ofIt Ends With Usthis past weekend, as did new releaseAlien: Romulus, which opened to $41.5 million, the outlets reported.It Ends With Us' box-office milestone comes amidreports of frictionbetween director-starJustin Baldoniand the rest of the primary cast, including Lively, 36, who is also a producer.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.Ryan Reynolds inDeadpool & Wolverine(2024); Blake Lively inIt Ends with Us(2024).Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL; Nicole RivelliDespite facing off at the box office, both Lively and husband Reynolds, 47, have been closely involved in and supportive of one another’s projects.For theGossip Girlalum, that support included a cameo inDeadpool & WolverineasLady Deadpool(andred catsuit on the red carpetat the premiere) and variouspraise-heavy postson social media, addressed to her husband of nearly 12 years.Reynolds, meanwhile,jokingly grilled his wife’sIt Ends With Uslove interest,Brandon Sklenar, in a purposely awkward interview, and even contributedwriting to a scene in the movie, according to Lively.“The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that but you now,” she toldE! Newsat the premiere in New York City on Aug. 6.She added, “We help each other. He works on everything I do; I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his.“Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the premiere ofIt Ends With Usin New York City on Aug. 6, 2024.John Nacion/Variety via GettyReynolds, whoshares four childrenwith Lively, also recentlyheaped praise on his wifefor her newest beauty venture: her haircare lineBlake Brown.“I’m obscenely proud of this woman,” Reynolds wrote on his Instagram Stories Aug. 1. “She’s been working on @blakebrownbeauty for 7 years.““And the result is exactly what you’d expect from a hyper-obsessive, detail addicted, uncompromising quality control genius,” he teased.At the end, Reynolds joked, “Also, Ijust found out her last name is Brown” (the name of Lively’s hair brand is a tribute to her father, Ernie, whose surname was Brown until he married her mom, Elaine Lively, and took her last name).

It Ends With Uscontinues to wow at the box office.

The romantic drama, a Colleen Hoover adaptation starringBlake Lively, debuted last weekend with a better-than-expected $50 million opening at the domestic box office. This past weekend, it’s second weekend, it added an estimated $24 million domestically, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.

Additionally,Varietyreported thatIt Ends With Usnow has a global box office total of over $180 million since its release, adding that the film was made on a budget of about $25 million.

Ryan ReynoldsandHugh Jackman’s superhero sequelDeadpool & Wolverine(now the highest grossing R-rated film of all time) came just ahead ofIt Ends With Usthis past weekend, as did new releaseAlien: Romulus, which opened to $41.5 million, the outlets reported.

It Ends With Us' box-office milestone comes amidreports of frictionbetween director-starJustin Baldoniand the rest of the primary cast, including Lively, 36, who is also a producer.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.

Ryan Reynolds inDeadpool & Wolverine(2024); Blake Lively inIt Ends with Us(2024).Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL; Nicole Rivelli

Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL; Nicole Rivelli

Despite facing off at the box office, both Lively and husband Reynolds, 47, have been closely involved in and supportive of one another’s projects.

For theGossip Girlalum, that support included a cameo inDeadpool & WolverineasLady Deadpool(andred catsuit on the red carpetat the premiere) and variouspraise-heavy postson social media, addressed to her husband of nearly 12 years.

Reynolds, meanwhile,jokingly grilled his wife’sIt Ends With Uslove interest,Brandon Sklenar, in a purposely awkward interview, and even contributedwriting to a scene in the movie, according to Lively.

“The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that but you now,” she toldE! Newsat the premiere in New York City on Aug. 6.

She added, “We help each other. He works on everything I do; I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his.”

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the premiere ofIt Ends With Usin New York City on Aug. 6, 2024.John Nacion/Variety via Getty

John Nacion/Variety via Getty

Reynolds, whoshares four childrenwith Lively, also recentlyheaped praise on his wifefor her newest beauty venture: her haircare lineBlake Brown.

“I’m obscenely proud of this woman,” Reynolds wrote on his Instagram Stories Aug. 1. “She’s been working on @blakebrownbeauty for 7 years.”

“And the result is exactly what you’d expect from a hyper-obsessive, detail addicted, uncompromising quality control genius,” he teased.

At the end, Reynolds joked, “Also, Ijust found out her last name is Brown” (the name of Lively’s hair brand is a tribute to her father, Ernie, whose surname was Brown until he married her mom, Elaine Lively, and took her last name).

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