It Ends With Usbroke a massive box office record for Blake Lively, and it makes her future look brighter than ever before. Throughout her career, Lively has been part of various successful projects from a critical and financial perspective. WhileIt Ends With Us' Rotten Tomatoes score was not great from critics, it set a career-high audience score for the actress, with it now “Verified Hot” at 91%. That indicated just how much audiences were enjoying the movie,It Ends With Us' controversiesand all, and that directly translated to the film overperforming at the box office.
The performance ofIt Ends With Us' box officemarked a significant moment for Blake Lively. While she’s been the lead in hits likeThe ShallowsorA Simple Favor, neither movie did well enough to break her record for the highest-grossing movie of her career. It was not necessarily expected that her 2024 romance drama based on Colleen Hoover’s book would be big enough to reach that milestone either. The film established itself as a force to be reckoned with upon its opening weekend, and Blake Lively’s future looks better withIt Ends With Us' new broken record.
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It Ends With Us Officially Beat Green Lantern To Be Blake Lively’s Highest Grossing Movie
Green Lantern Held The Record For 13 Years
Thanks to the continued interest in the romance drama,It Ends With Usis now officially thehighest-grossing movie of Blake Lively’s career. The total box office currently stands at $242.4 million worldwide, with $120.6 million coming domestically and the remaining $121.8 million attributed to international territories. This is enough to finally supplant 2011’sGreen Lanternfor the top spot in Blake Lively’s box office ranking. The DC superhero movie, in which Lively played Carol Ferris, made $237 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation.
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Not only isIt Ends With Us' total box office significantly higher thanGreen Lantern, but the 2024 movie is undoubtedly a far superior success story. Lively was part of a massive box office flop thanks toGreen Lanterncarrying a $200 million budget. She did not repeat that mistake withIt Ends With Us, as the film was reportedly made for only $25 million. The romance drama has made nearly ten times its cost at the box office, making it a wildly profitable release for all involved and leading to hopes for a sequel.
What It Ends With Us' Box Office Record Means For Blake Lively’s Future
She Should Remain Busy
The impact ofIt Ends With Us' box office performance have yet to truly kick in, outside of some additional Colleen Hoover book-to-movie adaptations entering development or moving forward. But those have no effect on Blake Lively, who stands to greatly benefit from the movie’s financial success. It would not be surprising if Amazon MGM reconsidered plans toreleaseA Simple Favor 2on streamingand put it back in theaters so that it could build on Lively’s fame. Sony should also seriously pursue anIt Ends With Ussequel, even if Lively’s feud with co-star/director/producer Justin Baldoni complicates matters.
At the very least,It Ends With Usbecoming Blake Lively’s highest-grossing movie is likely to make her as busy as she wants to be in the foreseeable future. Hollywood is sure to take notice of her star power and marketability and look to bring her appeal to other upcoming projects. More romance roles or book adaptations are bound to be offered.It Ends With Uscould also help get some gestating Blake Lively movies moving in the right direction, such as her romantic comedyThe Making Ofwith Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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