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Sofia Carson Opens Up About The “Ins And Outs” Of Her Career

Watch Sofia Carson play First/Last on ‘TRL’ on November 21, 2017.

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Sofia Carson Opens Up About The “Ins And Outs” Of Her Career

Do The Champs Have This Challenge Season In The Bag?

The Champs took the first victory on ‘Champs Vs. Stars’ — will their winning streak continue?

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Do The Champs Have This Challenge Season In The Bag?

WATCH: Star Wars: Detours Unveiled By Robot Chicken Team

The Farce is still strong in Seth Green and Matt Senreich.  The boy geniuses behind Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken series joined collaborator Todd Grimes at Star Wars Celebration VI on Friday to unveil footage of their new animated series Star Wars: Detours . IGN reports that the comedic CGI animated series — which depicts the very familiar Star Wars crew in “exaggerated Chibi/super deformed style” (translation for the uninitiated: small bodies, massive heads) — takes place in-between Episodes III and IV of George Lucas’ Star Wars canon and will focus on the what these characters do in their downtime. “Where do Gamorrean Guards grocery shop? Does Darth Vader do online dating? The answer is yes,” Grimes told the gathered Star Wars super fans. ” We answer all these things.” Among the footage fans saw was Obi-Wan using a Jedi Mind Trick on his audience after he bombs at stand-up comedy. (“That joke was hilarious and you all liked it.”)  In another scene, Jar Jar Binks asked Dexter Jettster why everyone hates him and Jettster replies by asking the Gungan how honest he wants him to be. According to IGN,  the Star Wars: Detours team did not announce a debut date or even if they’d been picked up by a TV network yet, but the site estimated that the show would probably bow in 2013. That sounds promising. Earlier this year , when I spoke to   Star Wars creator George Lucas — who was working with Green and his team, on the show — he told me: “We just can’t get anybody to put it on the air” because, he explained, the show doesn’t fit into a neat demographic package. Check out the clips: [ IGN ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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WATCH: Exclusive Clip From Faces In The Mirror, Produced By DMB’s Boyd Tinsley

Most movies get a soundtrack after they’ve been filmed.   Boyd Tinsley doesn’t work that way. On Aug. 30, the violinist for the Dave Matthews Band will premiere Faces in the Mirror a film that was shot after Tinsley and a group of musicians that included Matthews, other DMB members and the groups Maktub and The Silent Comedy. Tinsley, who produced and conceived of the film, tells me that he’s wanted to make a movie ever since the band shot the Dean Karr-directed video to the DMB’s 1997 hit “Crash Into Me.”   In December 2008, he explained, he took the first step by going into a studio with a hand-picked group of musicians. He explained to the musical artists that he had a bare-bones concept for a story of a young man dealing with the death of his estranged father.  “I knew there was a rift and the father and the son lost contact, but I didn’t know everything about the story,” Tinsley said. “I didn’t know how it ended.” Having expressed this rough outline, Tinsley said, “I told them, ‘Go into the room and play from the heart.  Don’t let your head come into it.” The musicians recorded over the next five days, much of it in between sessions for DMB’s 2009 album Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King.  “Everything you hear on the soundtrack happened in the moment. Music just materialized,” Tinsley said. “Things happened that just don’t happen.” First timer Aaron Farrington directed the moody, lushly shot film that was adapted to the music. Ryan Orr plays Ben Fisher, an angry  young man who returns home to bury his long-estranged father. On the day of his dad’s funeral, Ben finds himself on a trippy, stranger-guided journey to self-realization, forgiveness and possibly love. “It’s raw and it’s real,” says Tinsley who will take part in a post-premiere concert after Faces in the Mirror premieres in Seattle  on Aug. 30 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Snagfilms.com will webcast the film. You can check out the exclusive clip of the film  here . There’s also a sizzle reel for the film that includes footage of Tinsley performing . Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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And the Winner of Movieline’s Hunger Games Haiku Contest Is…

After receiving over 600 entries in our Hunger Games haiku contest , it took some Katniss-strength fortitude to find one victor to take home the coveted grand prize, a pair of tickets to the March 12 Los Angeles premiere. You think choosing between Peeta and Gale is hard? Try selecting a winner from the vivid, emotional, romantic, lyrical, hilarious, and evocative poems submitted by Hunger Games diehards in our Cornucopia of words. In order to be eligible, entries had to be original compositions in haiku form and be inspired by any part of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games . Many of you took the first person approach, writing as Katniss; some opted to approach it from the point of view of Peeta, Rue, or other supporting characters in the Hunger Games world. Overall, the potency of the Hunger Games mythology and heroine Katniss Everdeen’s journey shone through. In the spirit of the Games, here are the Top 12 “candidates” (ending with the contest’s winning entry): Nina Kuo: Pick Peeta or Gale? Well, I’ve always been a fan of polyandry! — Momin Sherazi: Katniss, I knead you I bread your pardon Peeta? I said I loaf You — Robyn: Screw Gale and Peeta This hellish revolution Was all for you, Rue — Brittany Huynh: I threw you some bread And now I throw you my heart Don’t break it apart — Samantha: You’re the boy with bread. And I am the girl on fire, So do we make toast? — Mar (we’ll let the extra syllables fly on account of the Tim Gunn reference): Cinna is the most normal He reminds me of Tim Gunn Make it work, Katniss — Kristen Kelly: Silver parachutes; My kisses bring survival But is there love here? — jjl: If I were to win Maybe my wife would see I’m Better than Peeta — Skid Maher: So Peeta or Gale? oh come on Katniss, why not take them both, you prude — James : A children’s deathmatch Ignites a nation to fight No sparkling vampires — Prianna Ahsan : To the Capitol where death awaits me now, yet my mind is on boys. — And the winner of Movieline’s Hunger Games Haiku contest is… Lisa, whose entry captured the wistful spirit of Collins’ novels with a lyricism evoking Katniss’s relationship with her fellow tribute Rue, the iconic Mockingjay call, and the rebellion she inspires with one courageous act during the Games. Lisa: Four notes on the wind– I must whistle for you now. Hear our song, Panem? Congrats to our winner and many thanks to all who played! Read all the Hunger Games haiku entries here . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Record-Breaking Amazon Trek Nears Completion

Photo via WalkingtheAmazon.com 853 days ago, Ed Stafford took the first steps of what would become a record-breaking trek, following the length of the Amazon river as it winds its way across the South American continent. After experiencing countless insect bites , violent run-ins with hostile natives, and his fair-share of folks who doubted he could do it, in a matter of days Stafford is… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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