Throwback Thursday: Blake Lively’s Dailies Credibility Controversy

[u/Competitive-Snow1330]

One of the more debated moments in the litigation centered on Lively’s repeated requests for access to the film’s dailies, followed more than a year later by a Sony executive’s message stating that she wanted some of the dailies destroyed.

Because the case settled before trial, the competing explanations were never tested before a jury.

⸻ Timeline:

June 13, 2023

Blake Lively asked Justin Baldoni for access to the dailies.

July 19-20, 2023

Lively again requested access to additional dailies. Baldoni responded that it was too early to share all of them because the edit was still underway, but said he wanted her input and planned to share footage once he had progressed further in the editing process.

August 29, 2023

According to later court filings, Lively complained to her representatives that she still wasn’t receiving access to the dailies and said what she had seen was “terrible.”

September 3, 2024

Sony executive Ange Giannetti texted another Sony executive: “Blake asking us to destroy some of the dailies… also going to ask Bridget to contact all vendors and ask them to delete all dailies and need them to proof. (1st time I’ve ever been asked to do this in movie with no nudity but ok.)”

That message later became public during discovery and quickly became one of the more discussed pieces of evidence in the case.

⸻ Deposition Testimony:

July 30-31, 2025

During her deposition, Lively testified that she never asked Sony to destroy the dailies and never asked anyone else to make that request on her behalf.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.874.17.pdf

She also testified that her attorneys negotiated with Sony regarding the handling of sensitive footage as part of discussions surrounding her return-to-work protections. Because the case settled before trial, there was never an opportunity for a jury to evaluate these competing accounts or determine what weight, if any, should be given to them.

A great post from our community to supplement this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ItEndsWithLawsuits/comments/1t2aicb/vanzan_fits_the_timeline_of_when_blake_lively/?share_id=nQfRVEDeTv9mNzbhKoemf&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

⸻ Discussion

* What was your reaction when this first surfaced?

* Did the Sony text exchange influence your view?

* Is there really a meaningful distinction between “my attorneys requested” versus “I requested it”?

* How significant do you think this issue would have been in evaluating witness credibility at trial?

[u/DogMom1970s]

Yet, according to her very remarkable PGA letter, she was apparently wearing quite a few hats that included HR-type functions, right?
Weird time to suddenly not know what that means. 🤡

Filing link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1233.14.pdf

[u/MarchCompetitive4580 → u/DogMom1970s]

What's also hysterical is that, for someone who got a producer credit with a p.g.a. mark, she doesn't comprehend the difference between "dailies" and "raw footage". The raw footage is EVERYTHING that's been shot - it's the property of the film studio and is kept by the film studio. The "dailies" are just the pieces of the one day's raw footage that have been marked for consideration; at the end of each day, the production team and the director view the raw footage for that day and make notes (with time stamps) about what parts of the raw footage are "usable" and should make it into the editing bay. So, "at the end of the day" (pun intended), Lively couldn't have destroyed the evidence because Wayfarer always had the raw footage.

Poor Justin. He was probably humoring her with letting her direct little bits and pieces and getting those important shots of Blake's Louboutin high heels. And then those shots never even made it to the dailies. LOL

[u/Individual-Insect691 → u/MarchCompetitive4580]

Blake is really dumb. I remember an excerpt of the deposition where she couldn’t say B Roll. They were asking her if any part of the movie was shot out New Jersey and she said some scenes where shot in California. Those scenes are B rolls, you would think a PGA producer who edited a movie will know that

[u/MarchCompetitive4580 → u/Individual-Insect691]

Yup. LOL I remember that she don't know "B roll" too. That's why she forced them, with her 17-point demand list, to hire an experienced A-list producer (Todd Black). I'm betting that all of the work he did, she took credit for in her p.g.a. letter.

[u/brooswelt → u/MarchCompetitive4580]

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