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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.

Simone Ashley, Sharon Horgan to guest star on ‘Only Murders in the Building’

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Some new faces are clocking in for season 6 of Only Murders in the Building.

Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley, Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders, and Bad Sisters star and creator Sharon Horgan are among the newly announced recurring guest stars for the Hulu whodunnit series.

Also guest starring in the new season are Heartstopper’s Rhea Norwood, Sean Teale, Amar Chadha-Patel and Matthew Beard.

The 10-episode sixth season of the Emmy-winning comedy series heads overseas for the first time as the crime-solving trio of Charles, Oliver and Mabel will be trading in New York City for London in order to solve a new mystery. It’s currently in production in the U.K.

Only Murders in the Building stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Disney is the parent company of Hulu and ABC News.

‘X-Men’ actor Tyler Mane reveals breast cancer diagnosis, puts spotlight on rare cases in men

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

X-Men actor Tyler Mane has revealed that he has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Mane, best known for playing Sabretooth in X-Men as well as in Deadpool & Wolverine, shared his diagnosis Tuesday in a video on social media.

“I have some bad news. I start chemotherapy today,” Mane said, adding in the video’s caption that he was diagnosed with breast cancer, calling it “super rare.”

Mane did not share further details about his diagnosis or treatment.

ABC News has reached out to the actor for comment.

In his post, Mane said he hopes to raise awareness about breast cancer in men, saying that he “wants to change” the reality that the condition is “rarely talked about.”

In the United States, around one out of every 100 breast cancer diagnoses is found in a man, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Like a woman, a man’s risk of breast cancer is increased if they have either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

Other risk factors for breast cancer in men include being over the age of 50, a family history of breast cancer, obesity, exposure to hormone and radiation therapy treatments, liver disease and certain conditions that affect the testicles, according to the CDC.

There are currently no screening recommendations for breast cancer screening in men.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women between ages 40 and 74 who are at average risk for breast cancer get a mammogram every two years.

The symptoms of breast cancer in men include abnormalities around the breast area, including a lump or swelling, redness or flaky skin, nipple discharge and pain in the nipple area, according to the CDC.

Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White take on Facebook in ‘The Social Reckoning’ trailer

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Facebook is facing the music in the new trailer for The Social Reckoning.

The companion film to 2010’s The Social Network will tell the true story of young Facebook engineer Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, who enlists the help of Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, to blow the whistle on Facebook’s questionable practices.

Their work ultimately culminated in a 2021 exposé known as The Facebook Files, which exposed the inner workings and harms caused by Facebook.

In the clip, we see the two going up against the social network giant, headed by Jeremy Strong’s Mark Zuckerberg.

“I’m a free speech absolutist and I’m not the one who’s lying,” Strong as Zuckerberg says as he’s accused of injecting a “fire hose of bad information” into society.

The film was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, who previously wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for The Social Network. It also stars Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen and Bill Burr.

The Social Reckoning hits theaters Oct. 9.

In brief: ‘Whalefall’ trailer, ‘Furious’ first look, and more

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Ever wondered what would happen if you got swallowed by a whale? That’s the premise for the new survival thriller Whalefall, which just released its first teaser trailer. It stars Austin Abrams as a diver who gets trapped inside a sperm whale. Josh Brolin plays his late father. The film opens Oct. 16 …

Fresh off her recent Tony win, Lesley Manville has landed a role in the Prime Video rom-com series Escorted. According to Deadline, she’ll play the mother of Brett Goldstein’s character, a divorced dad who accidentally becomes a male escort …

Hulu has released the first look at Furious, the new show from New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether. The series stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer, played by Lola Petticrew. It premieres with its first three episodes on July 27 …

‘Alice and Steve’ stars talk ruining the friendship in new Hulu series

June 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker are ruining the friendship in the new Hulu comedy series Alice and Steve. The two star as the titular best friends whose relationship is tested when Steve starts dating Alice’s adult daughter, Izzy.

It’s being described as a “wrong com” instead of a rom-com, but Walker tells ABC Audio that while her character, Alice, might call it that, she believes it’s more nuanced.

“I think it’s hugely problematic and going to, you know, [be] a grenade that blows up everybody’s lives. But I don’t think it’s wrong,” she says of the relationship between Steve and the 26-year-old Izzy.

“No one is right and nobody is wrong completely, but everyone behaves appallingly at times,” she adds. “And yet you understand them and sympathize with them, I think.”

Clement says there’s “a lot of gray area” in terms of the characters’ behavior, and while he doesn’t necessarily relate to Steve, he at least feels for him.

“He is extremely lonely when we begin, and he’s just lost a good friend, a mutual friend of his and Alice’s,” Clement says. “And so he’s thinking about his entire life at that moment.”

All six episodes of Alice and Steve are now streaming on Hulu.

Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater call it quits after nearly 3 years of dating

June 9, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have reportedly ended their relationship, according to People.

The Wicked co-stars have amicably called it quits after nearly three years of dating, according to a source who spoke to People this week.

ABC News reached out to Grande’s and Slater’s representatives for comment.

Slater and Grande met while working on Wicked, which began filming in December 2022. Grande played Glinda in the film, while Slater played Boq.

The pair were first photographed together at Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar party in March 2023, alongside their Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo.

Grande and Slater, both of whom were married previously, were spotted together in public a few times, including in October 2023, when Grande attended Spamalot on Broadway to support Slater, who was appearing in the show.

They appeared to make their relationship Instagram official in November 2024, when they each shared the same behind-the-scenes photo of themselves at the Wicked premiere in Sydney, Australia.

When Grande was nominated for best supporting actress at the Critics Choice Awards in 2025 for her turn as Glinda, Slater spoke with ABC’s Good Morning Americaon the carpet about what it was like to see Grande take on the role.

“It’s really moving,” Slater said at the time. “When somebody’s wanted to play a role for so long, something that’s meant so much to her, it’s meant so much to everyone on the cast, and then everybody had to really go for it and earn these roles and deliver every day on set, I feel immensely proud of Ariana, of Cynthia, of [Jonathan Bailey], of every single person.”

Grande is currently on her Eternal Sunshine Tour, which kicked off on June 6, in Oakland, California.

She is expected to make stops across North America in Los Angeles, Austin, New York, Boston, Montreal, and more, before hitting the stage at The O2 in London on Aug. 15 for a multi-show run.

Her upcoming album, petal, will be released July 31.