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Paul Anthony Kelly to join Sydney Sweeney in ‘The Housemaid’s Secret’

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Paul Anthony Kelly is making the leap from romantic drama to psychological thriller.

The actor, known for playing John F. Kennedy Jr. in the hit FX series Love Story, will star in The Housemaid’s Secret, Lionsgate announced Thursday.

The upcoming film is a sequel to The Housemaid, which was released in 2025.

Kelly will star as Douglas in the sequel alongside Sydney Sweeney, who reprises her role as Millie. Michele Morrone, who also starred in The Housemaid, will reprise his role as Enzo, according to Lionsgate.

Kirsten Dunst will also star in the film, with Paul Feig returning to direct the project.

According to a synopsis from Lionsgate, The Housemaid’s Secret will see Millie “taking a job keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.”

The Housemaid and The Housemaid’s Secret are based on the New York Times bestselling novels of the same name by Freida McFadden.

McFadden’s most recent Housemaid novel, The Housemaid Is Watching, was published in June 2024.

Lionsgate added in a press release that while The Housemaid’s Secret enters production later this year, “the studio anticipates adapting even more of McFadden’s beloved thrillers from the world of The Housemaid in the years ahead.”

Kelly was also recently announced as the newest cast member for the 13th installment of American Horror Story, premiering later this fall on FX and Hulu.

The Housemaid’s Secret will be released on Dec. 17, 2027.

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‘Off Campus’ calls out ‘targeted harassment’ on social media

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Off Campus team is calling out fans’ unsportsmanlike behavior.

Prime Video’s popular college hockey romance series posted a message to social media Thursday imploring fans to be kind.

“The Off Campus community is built on a shared love of storytelling – and on respect for the real people who bring it to life,” read the message. “We ask that everyone in this space extend that respect to our cast and the people in their lives.”

It added, “Accounts that engage in targeted harassment will be removed from following our accounts.”

Prime Video had to issue similar notices for The Summer I Turned Pretty after some comments turned toxic. “PSA for the Summer community,” the show’s official social accounts shared last year before the third and final season aired. “Cousins is our safe place. Everything good, everything magical. Let’s keep the conversation kind this summer.”

More recently, the streaming service issued a plea to fans to stop sharing locations and visiting the set for the upcoming The Summer I Turned Pretty movie.

‘The Love Hypothesis’ gets a release date on Prime Video

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Let’s hear it for women in STEM.

The Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling romance novel, officially has a release date. The film comes to Prime Video on Sept. 23.

Star Lili Reinhart helped announce the news in a video posted to social media Thursday. We see a barista deliver a whipped cream-topped drink with 9.23 written on it to Reinhart’s character, Olive.

“Oh that’s me,” Reinhart says as she grabs the drink and takes a sip. “Could I actually get sprinkles on this?”

“Just a little something brewing,” Prime Video captioned the video. “The Love Hypothesis arrives September 23.”

The story follows a fake dating scheme between Olive Smith, a PhD candidate, and a surly biology professor, Adam Carlsen, played by Tom Bateman. Matters get complicated when their fake dating starts to give way to real feelings.

Cosmopolitan scored an exclusive first look at the film, including a photo of Olive and Adam’s memorable first kiss.

’24 Jump Street’ is officially in the works

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

A third installment in the 21 Jump Street movie franchise is a go.

Producer Neal H. Moritz revealed the news in an Instagram post, with a photo of the script for 24 Jump Street. “It took so long to make we had to skip one,” the script’s cover page reads.

21 Jump Street, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, was released in 2012, followed by its sequel, 22 Jump Street, in 2014.

As the photo of the script reveals, Hill co-wrote 24 Jump Street along with Rodney Rothman and Meghan Malloy.

“A picture says a thousand words!” Moritz captioned the photo.

Variety reports Hill, Tatum and Ice Cube are in talks to return as stars of the new film.

The first Jump Street film, a reboot of the 1980s TV series starring Johnny Depp, saw Hill and Tatum playing cops who go undercover at a high school. The sequel had them graduating to an undercover mission at a college.

‘Slow Horses’ sets season 6 return

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Slow Horses is hoofing it to season 6.

The Apple TV spy drama will return for its six-episode sixth season on Sept. 16 and air week to week until Oct. 21.

Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, a British intelligence agent and head of MI5, known as Slough House — a dumping ground for reject agents. The series also stars Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jonathan Pryce.

The sixth season will see the Slow Horses on the run as they become embroiled in a “fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.” Apple TV also released first-look images from the new episodes.

Slow Horses is based on the Slough House books by Mick Herron. The new season is adapted from the sixth and seventh books in the series, Joe Country and Slough House.

The Emmy-winning show scored an early season 7 renewal last year, before season 5 even aired.

In brief: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ coming to Disney+, and more

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

You’ll soon be able to watch Avatar: Fire and Ash at home. The third film in the James Cameron franchise will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ on June 24 …

Ryan Murphy’s new show, The Shards, now has a release date. The drama series, based on the bestselling novel by Bret Easton Ellis, will premiere on FX and Hulu on Aug. 5. The show follows a group of privileged teens at an elite prep school in 1980s Los Angeles. The cast includes Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, Evan Rachel Wood and Wes Bentley …

Glenn Close, Ridley Scott and animator Floyd Norman will be receiving honorary Oscars at the 2026 Governors Awards. The awards will be presented on Nov. 15 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles …

As tickets go on sale for the new live-action version of Disney’s Moana, the final trailer is here, featuring Dwayne Johnson as the egotistical demigod Maui. It hits theaters July 10. Disney is the parent company of ABC News …

In brief: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ coming to Disney+, and more

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

You’ll soon be able to watch Avatar: Fire and Ash at home. The third film in the James Cameron franchise will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ on June 24 …

Ginger Minj, Jujubee say ‘Stop! That! Train!’ is a queer comedy for everybody

June 11, 2026 by WDNY Radio

All aboard the Glamazonian Express.

Drag queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee star in the new comedy Stop! That! Train! The film, which arrives in theaters Friday, follows two train stewardesses who begin working for a glamorous high-speed train right as a catastrophic storm threatens to derail it.

Jujubee told ABC Audio it was always a dream of hers to be in a movie.

“I’m so grateful that our fabulous, talented, handsome director Adam Shankman chose me to play Deedee. I think it was my adult teeth that I was born with. Is that the reason?” Jujubee said. “We showed up and we worked our butt pads off. Everybody that was on that set was so happy to work … we wanted to create art for queer people, but everybody else as well.”

As for what it’s like to be atop the call sheet, Jujubee said, “It feels right.”

Ginger Minj, who stars as Tess, said that while films like To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert feature drag queens as characters, this movie takes it a step further.

“I love those movies. They did a lot for queer culture and for drag acceptance. But this is like, for drag by drag,” Ginger Minj said. “We’re actual drag queens who live in these heels every single day. So I think that informs the performance a little bit differently.”

The film is a comedy, but Shankman told Ginger Minj and Jujubee on their first day on set to play it as if it were a drama.

“I think that that grounds the entire film. All of the outrageousness that happens, it hits a lot harder because we do approach it from such a real place,” Ginger Minj says.

‘Every Year After’ starring Sadie Soverall, Matt Cornett is this summer’s love story

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Less than a year after the beloved Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty wrapped, a new series is stepping in to deliver all the swoonworthy summer romance audiences have been yearning for.

Prime Video released all eight episodes of the series Every Year After on Wednesday, starring Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett. The streaming platform has described the new show as “the love story of the summer.”

The series follows Percy (Soverall) and Sam (Cornett), childhood best friends who fall in love over the course of six summers at Barry’s Bay, an idyllic lakeside town.

Ten years after their heartbreaking split, they are reunited when Percy returns to Barry’s Bay to attend the funeral of Sam’s mother.

“It’s a story that’s told over quite an incredible span of time,” Soverall told ABC News in an interview. “It follows them from the age of 13 to their mid-to-late 20s.”

Cornett added, “You get to see them grow together and then see their hardships that caused them to separate. And you see them come back together to try and regrow together.”

The series already has a loyal fanbase thanks to Carley Fortune’s New York Times bestselling novel Every Summer After, on which the show is based.

Going into the series, Cornett said that he wasn’t familiar with Fortune’s novel, but when he found out he booked the role of Sam, he said he went to the bookstore and saw the book displayed on one of the first tables in the shop.

“I was like, ‘OK, I guess this is a little bit bigger of a deal than I think it is,'” he recalled, adding that he was “blown away by it.”

“Carley’s writing is spectacular,” Cornett said. “And I remember reading the book and crying a lot, so the idea of getting to bring that to life was fun.”

Soverall added that she wanted to do the story justice knowing how beloved the characters are.

“I think that we’re both such big fans, so we get how important it is for these characters to be represented in a way that you want to see them as a fan,” she said.

The new series also stars Aurora Perrineau, Abigail Cowen, Michael Bradway, Joseph Chiu and Elisha Cuthbert.

Hugh Laurie, Joe Alwyn join John le Carré’s ‘Legacy of Spies’

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Hugh Laurie and Joe Alwyn have spied their latest project.

The two actors have joined the cast of Legacy of Spies, based on a combination of John le Carré’s 1963 bestseller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and his 2017 novel A Legacy of Spies.

The eight-episode espionage drama follows the exploits of spymaster George Smiley, played by Matthew Macfadyen, and the British intelligence agency he works for called The Circus. Charlie Hunnam plays agent-runner and field operative Alec Leamas.

Laurie takes on the role of Control, Smiley’s morally gray superior at The Circus known only by his codename, while Alwyn joins as Jim Prideaux, a charismatic agent who tends to go rogue in the field.

Laurie previously starred in another le Carré adaptation, The Night Manager, opposite Tom Hiddleston.

Legacy of Spies will air on MGM+ in the U.S.

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