Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us Deal: The Real Salary, a $200,000 Oscar Bonus, and a Private Jet

US Weekly just dropped a look at the contract Blake Lively was offered for 'It Ends with Us' before everything blew up, and it is... robust. Reporter Kjersti Flaa, who once went viral for a tense interview with Lively, walked through the deal in a new YouTube breakdown and what it might mean for Lively's legal fight with director and co-star Justin Baldoni.

What the unsigned deal actually promised

• $1.75 million in fixed pay for playing Lily Bloom
• 10% of the film's profits on top of the base salary
• $250,000 bonus if the box office hit at least 3x the film's cost
• Awards bonuses: $100,000 for an Oscar nomination, $200,000 for an Oscar win; $75,000 for a Golden Globe nomination, $100,000 for a Globe win; the same $75,000/$100,000 structure for SAG Awards
• A driver to and from set and an exclusive-use trailer with the usual amenities in New Jersey
• $1,000 per week for training and meals, plus $1,500 per week for assistant fees
• Private jet travel for Lively, her four kids, her assistant, two nannies, and security
• Hotel accommodations courtesy of Wayfarer Studios: a mutually approved suite for Lively and the kids, plus four standard rooms for assistants, nannies, and security

Worth flagging: Lively has never been nominated for an Oscar, Globe, or SAG Award, so those bonuses were long-shot sweeteners. The private jet detail is the kind of eyebrow-raiser that gets people talking; Flaa even noted the optics given Ryan Reynolds's repeated eco-friendly positioning and philanthropy. It's a little rich in more ways than one.

The box office math

The Numbers pegs the production budget at $25 million. The movie pulled in $349 million worldwide — 14 times its cost. Even if you do not get into Hollywood accounting (and that can get murky fast), crossing 3x the budget was not just met, it was obliterated. Under this deal, that would have triggered the extra $250,000 and put real weight behind that 10% profit piece, assuming the participation definition in the paperwork is not booby-trapped by the usual deductions.

The legal wrinkle Flaa says Team Baldoni may lean on

Here is where it gets sticky. The document US Weekly published was never signed by Lively. Even so, Flaa says attorneys she consulted pointed out a familiar principle: if a performer acts as if a contract is in place — shows up, gets paid, accepts benefits — parts of it can still carry weight. According to Flaa's read, the paperwork frames Lively as an independent contractor rather than an employee of Wayfarer or the film, which she says undercuts the narrative that she had no real power on set.

"It also says here that if there is any conflict between them, this should be solved outside of court. It should happen in private arbitration..."

Flaa argues that clause could be used by Team Baldoni to say the dispute should not be playing out publicly or in open court. There is another wrinkle: she notes Lively's side has cited California law in filings, but the contract points to the work being done in New York. If a judge cares about location and governing law language, that could tilt things Baldoni's way. Again, a lot hangs on whether the court decides the unsigned terms apply because everyone behaved as if they did.

Bottom line: the offer was hefty, the perks were lavish, and the arbitration language — if it sticks — might become a key lever for Baldoni's team. The irony and the fine print are doing as much talking as the movie at this point.

'It Ends with Us' is now streaming on Netflix.