Sydney Sweeney has been quite busy as of late, as the Hollywood A-lister has been racking up acting gigs and creating other business opportunities for herself. In short, the 28-year-old starlet has been proving herself to be one of the most marketable celebs in the industry via her various deals. Sweeney has been embroiled in controversy, though, due to a jeans ad, which was produced by and for American Eagle. All the while, I’m now questioning if Sweeney’s love life has taken a turn, given she was seen with a new man.
Sydney Sweeney Is Spotted With A Guy While Seemingly Living It Up in Idaho
The Euphoria actress recently took a lake trip to Idaho, and Page Six managed to obtain photos of the getaway. Amid the bevy of snapshots were images of Sydney Sweeney wearing a navy bathing suit while jet-skiing. The pictures also feature an unidentified, brown-haired man, and he was riding the jet ski with Sweeney. As of this writing, no one from Sweeney’s camp has provided clarification on the star’s companion. What can be said, though, is that Sweeney and the man were all smiles while on the water.
breakup rumors swirled around Davino and Sweeney in March 2025 and, by April, it was confirmed that the pair separated and called off their wedding. Sweeney has also been romantically linked to Glen Powell, her Anyone but You co-star. However, even Powell’s mother denied that there were any romantic sparks between the two friends.
spending time with Tom Brady and Orlando Bloom. However, a source later said that she wasn’t dating either of those two stars or anyone at the moment due to focusing on her career as opposed to a relationship. Despite that assertion, Sweeney’s recent outing with the man in Idaho is still intriguing, to say the least. However, the actress does indeed have more to concern herself with than a theoretical, new partner.
Why Is Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Add Stirring Up Controversy?
The “Sydney Jean” is at the forefront of American Eagle’s promotional campaign for its new fall collection. In addition to collaborating with Sweeney herself on the aforementioned pants, the apparel brand also released a limited edition denim jacket. The tagline for the campaign has drawn particular backlash from members of the general public. In ads, the line, “Sydney Sweeney has great genes,” appears, before the final word is replaced with “jeans.” As noted by NBC News, the “genes” assertion is featured in other advertisements, and some have perceived it to have racial undertones involving eugenics.
A portion of commenters have even gone as far as to accuse American Eagle of promoting “Nazi propaganda” and “white supremacy.” Others, however, have shot down the notion that there’s a racial component to this marketing campaign. As of this writing, neither AE nor the Immaculate star have spoken out on the matter. However, the clothing manufacturer did later release another ad for the campaign, which featured a non-white model.
Sydney Sweeney’s AE collaboration represents just one of several business deals she’s been able to ink as of late. In addition to the jeans project, she’s also collaborated with Baskin-Robbins on an ice cream promotion, and Sweeney also dropped that much-discussed bathwater soap. Time will tell whether her team opts to speak not only on the jeans controversy but on the identity of the man in Idaho as well.
I have to come clean about something: I have way too many streamers. When I first became a “cord cutter,” I had no idea that one day I would have so many of the best streaming services that I’d end up paying more each month than I would with cable. With the cost of living growing exponentially every single day, I now have to start cutting out some of those platforms and possibly miss out on some of those new and upcoming 2025 TV shows.
While I’m willing to let my Paramount+ subscription lapse or get rid of my Peacock subscription (at least until an upcoming WWE event) or do without my Netflix subscription until things turn around, there’s one I just can’t let go. In fact, I wouldn’t even consider cancelling my YouTube Premium account. Here’s why…
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YouTube Premium Is Honestly The Subscription I Use The Most
watching all kinds of free movies, random documentaries not available anywhere else, checking out camping videos, cooking channels, or am simply in need of some background noise while I work or relax at night, YouTube is there.
YouTube TV subscription). I honestly feel like YouTube Premium gives you the most bang for your buck when it comes to streaming.
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Plus, I Don’t Think I Could Ever Go Back To Dealing With All Those Ads
One of the main reasons I won’t ever get rid of my account is that I just can’t deal with the ads. There have been times when the app has signed out of my account and ads have started playing between videos (or worse, during long videos), which causes all kinds of chaos. They’re jarring, annoying, and more times than not, it’s the same ad over and over again. I just can’t go back. I’ve even signed in at friends’ houses so I don’t have to deal with interruptions while watching Trapped in the Closet or those “Guy on a Buffalo” videos at a party.
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So, I’m ride or die when it comes to my YouTube subscription, and I don’t think that’ll ever change. But I will say that I make sure to keep my kids far away from the time-sink that is this app.
(L to R) Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. Photo: TriStar Pictures.
Preview:
Celine Song is writing a ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ sequel.
Sony is backing the new movie.
There is no word yet if original cast members Julia Roberts or Rupert Everett will return.
Though the company hasn’t exactly had the best luck dusting off its back catalogue for sequel treatment –– neither ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ nor especially ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ have set the box office aflame or won over legions of new fans –– that, apparently isn’t stopping Sony.
According to Collider, Celine Song, the acclaimed writer/director behind ‘Past Lives’ (which was nominated for two Oscars) and this year’s ‘Materialists’, has been hired to work on script for a sequel to 1997 romantic comedy ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’.
“It’s about finding the love of your life. And deciding what to do about it.”
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The movie, which starred the likes of Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett, was directed by P.J. Hogan and was a hit for the studio, earning almost $300 million on a $38 million budget.
It’s also something that, if the starry cast can be tempted back, feels worthy of a follow-up.
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What was the story of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’?
(L to R) Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney and Julia Roberts in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. Photo: TriStar Pictures.
The original starred Roberts as food critic Julianne Potter, who discovers that her longtime friend, Michael (Mulroney), is planning to get married to Kimmy Wallace (Diaz). The two, who had a relationship in college, had vowed to get hitched with each other if they each remained unmarried by the ripe old age of 28.
Realizing she is in love, Jules plans to sabotage the event…
‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ has been remade several times in other countries, including Mexico and China.
Song certainly seems like a solid choice to write this –– she’s proved she can channel romantic longing and adult relationships, and would have a good take on where the characters are now.
What has the cast said about progress on a sequel?
(L to R) Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. Photo: TriStar Pictures.
Mulroney, while making the promotional rounds for one of his latest projects, Netflix series ‘The Hunting Wives’ teased what he’s heard in an interview with the New York Post:
“I know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote.”
So… yes, hardly the biggest update, but Song’s hiring surely points to the studio looking to propose something.
When will the ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ sequel be in theaters?
That’s tough to answer at this point –– with Song only just starting work on a script, no director attached and deals yet to be locked in with cast old or new, a release date is unlikely for now.
And Sony may also look to see how other legacy sequels such as ‘Practical Magic 2’ perform before truly committing to this one.
(L to R) Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’. Photo: TriStar Pictures.
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institute the summer blockbuster but was instrumental in making genre films become just as prevalent and prestigious as melodramas or period pieces. Williams has been a key figure in getting music composed for the screen to break away from its marriage to the moving image and become desirable to listen to on its own. His pivot from jazz-based scores and Broadway-style arrangements to lush, heavily thematic, symphonic music made the score soundtrack album just as viable as a pop source cue soundtrack, and transformed the bulk of music for films into something that can and should stand on its own in addition to supporting the movie that it’s for. Without these two artists, the landscape of music and movies over the last 50 years would look so different that it’d be almost unrecognizable.
Yet their first project together couldn’t have been more unassuming. Rather than a massive musical shot across the bow like “Jaws” or “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” would be, Spielberg and Williams’ first collaboration was for 1974’s “The Sugarland Express,” a film that looks positively quaint by comparison. Yet despite the lack of killer sharks, extraterrestrials, a world war, or a historical figure, “The Sugarland Express” is still undeniably the work of both men, and one that remains underrated a little over half a century later. Of course, if either artist hadn’t enjoyed working with one another on the film, we may never have discovered the riches they were to produce later. Fortunately, Spielberg and Williams’ work on “Sugarland” was not only fruitful but also set the pace for a legendary run of films and film music to follow.
Williams proved in ‘Sugarland’ that he could bring emotional intimacy to Spielberg’s scope
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“The Sugarland Express” may look ordinary next to Spielberg and Williams’ more fantastical works, yet it’s certainly not lacking for scope. The film, written by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, was based on a real-life incident that occurred in Texas in the late 1960s, in which a young couple — Lou Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis (William Atherton) in the film — break the husband out of prison and head across the state to retrieve their young son from the foster parents that the law insisted he be given to. Through a series of mishaps and shenanigans, the couple end up kicking off a slow-motion car chase to Sugar Land, Texas. After taking a patrolman hostage on their quest to get their child back from the law, they become unlikely folk heroes. The film is a dramedy that recalls the contemporary work of Robert Altman — this is the movie in which Spielberg’s early penchant for overlapping dialogue turns up the most — yet is undeniably Spielberg’s in retrospect. It continues his fascination post-“Duel” with the road movie, and is centered around a family unit that’s fractured yet is trying desperately to make itself whole (something which resonates even harder after “The Fabelmans” exposed the director’s turbulent childhood).
Given the myriad of strong emotions in the movie, Spielberg initially approached Williams to score the film based on the strength of the latter’s work on Mark Rydell’s 1969 “The Reivers,” which featured a very bucolic, large-scale score. Williams pitched Spielberg on a different approach instead, hiring Toots Thielemans, a Belgian harmonica soloist, to become the centerpiece sound of the movie’s score. The resulting music by Williams for “The Sugarland Express” is thus the first instance of Williams bringing an astute emotional intimacy to Spielberg’s work. Rather than simply trying to match (or exceed) the visual scope of the film, Williams’ music instead highlights the shifting emotional tones of the story and the characters, the score veering between a playful, wistful, charming, and then ultimately, tragic sound. It’s indeed a score that doesn’t strike the listener right away as so many of Williams’ future scores for Spielberg films would, yet it demonstrates depth the more it’s listened to.
‘Sugarland Express’ established a rapport that yielded a legendary partnership
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It’s entirely possible that Spielberg was just plainly impressed with Williams’ music, and it’s only that which caused him to re-hire the composer to work on “Jaws” the year after “The Sugarland Express.” Yet Williams’ deft highlighting of Spielberg’s images and storytelling in “Sugarland” might have impressed the director even more than the music by itself, and indeed it was this collaborative rapport between the two that helped the music for “Jaws” become the icon that it still is today. Legend has it that Spielberg had to keep himself from laughing when Williams initially pitched the filmmaker on the two-note motif that Williams had devised for the shark. Yet Spielberg, likely due to the duo’s working relationship on “Sugarland,” trusted the maestro, and the rest was cinematic history.
It says a lot about Spielberg and Williams’ partnership that the collaboration has lasted as long as it has, carrying on through both fair and foul weather. Spielberg is as loyal as any filmmaker in Hollywood, as he tends to work with people as often as is allowed (given scheduling) or appropriate (given a role). Yet Williams has only missed out on just five Spielberg movies ever since their first collaboration on “The Sugarland Express”: “Twilight Zone: The Movie” which was scored by Jerry Goldsmith, “The Color Purple” with Quincy Jones, “Bridge of Spies” with Thomas Newman, “Ready Player One” with Alan Silvestri,” and “West Side Story,” which of course used a score already written for the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein. That means the remaining 29 movies that Spielberg has directed feature Williams’ compositions, which is still a staggering record for any director/composer duo in history.
Of course, all good things must come to an end, and it’s still unclear as of this writing whether Spielberg’s next film (which is still untitled but is due for release in June of 2026) will feature a Williams score or not. Whatever happens, the fact that Spielberg and Williams have made many movies separately before and might do so again doesn’t detract from how important their collaboration has been to cinema. Come what may, the two artists’ names will forever be linked, so much so that when you think of just about any given image or moment from a Spielberg film, it’ll be Williams’ music that you’ll hear in your mind.
Having been consistently building for the last 17 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline is quite complicated… and the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn’t exactly make things much clearer. Not only is the film set in a separate reality from the main continuity (Earth-828 vs. Earth-616), but it’s also notably a period movie. Acknowledging this (particularly the latter), you may find yourself a bit confused about how everything lines up –especially with the big crossover planned in the upcoming Marvel movie Avengers: Doomsday – but we’re here to save you from head scratching activities with some clarity via director Matt Shakman.
Earlier this month, CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb sat down with the filmmaker during the Los Angeles press day for Fantastic Four: First Steps (as captured in the video at the top of this article), and one of the subjects discussed was new 2025 blockbuster’s complicated fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thankfully, Shakman provided answers about both the when and the how of the whole thing.
Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Setting Is “Purposefully Vague,” But Filmmakers Did Focus On A Particular Year
teased in the post-credits scene of Thunderbolts*), does that mean that they are going to be doing some time traveling? According to Matt Shakman, the answer is no.
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When you’re grappling with the concept of infinite realities, that means that there are infinite realities that are perfectly in sync with their timelines, but there are also infinite realities that are totally out of sync. That seems to be the case here: the 1960s of Earth-828 is unfurling parallel the 2020s of Earth-616. Or as Matt Shakman put it:
In terms of your question, though, in their version of the world, they’re in the 60s, but different universes are of different ages, right? And so when they cross over, they won’t be time traveling.
Is it still a bit complicated and geeky? Absolutely. But hopefully this clarifies things a bit.
Featuring the talents of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Paul Walter Hauser, Julia Garner and Ralph Ineson, Fantastic Four: First Steps is playing in theaters now, and as far as its connection to the larger MCU goes, stay tuned here on CinemaBlend for all of the latest big updates about Avengers: Doomsday, which is now in production and is scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026.
