Pakistan, May 16 -- Scarlett Johansson knows what everyone is talking about. And while the increasingly contentious legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively does not have anything to do directly with Johansson's directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, the It Ends with Us director's Wayfarer Studios is a major backer of the film.

Though the Avengers star never met Baldoni as he was busy working on the film now at the center of his legal drama, Johansson-who was previously married to Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds-offered fond words towards the company. "They were super supportive throughout the process," she told Vanity Fair in an interview published May 14. "But yeah, such weird timing."

Indeed, the news of Wayfarer backing El...