It was frightfully unclear whether Max would make it after his shooting at the hands of Carter‘s troubled boyfriend Crash. But when the “Finding Carter” favorite finally opened his eyes, those closest to him (and us viewers) all breathed a tremendous sigh of relief. Sure, the nice guy’s road to recovery was far from over, but he had the undeniable support of the Wilsons — and his ladylove Taylor.

But on the season finale, when Max was able to communicate for the first time since his horrific ordeal, he was understandably sullen as well as unsure of how he would physically and psychologically recover. To cope, he made jokes about losing his job at the mini-mart because of the “mess he made” and lamented that he was bringing down the mood of the room — but it was clear that he was in a gloomy state, and nothing would make him feel optimistic about what the future would hold. Taylor did her best to cheer him up, to no avail.

“I’m sorry, but I’m mad at me,” Max said. “I’m not getting that I’ve been shot, and I’m here. And I keep waking up every morning thinking that I can go do whatever I normally want to do, but I can’t.”

Taylor continued to offer her help, but Max refused it — instead, he wanted Elizabeth to show him the tape from shooting. When the police officer wouldn’t oblige, ...

While “The Maze Runner” may look like a Very Serious Movie, what with the dystopian vibes, deadly creatures and potentially life-ending and impossible to solve mystery maze, it wasn’t all Grievers and doom on-set.

We caught up with director Wes Ball and author James Dashner at San Diego Comic-Con recently and asked them about filming the Griever sequences. As the killer robot hybrid horrors don’t actually exist in real life (we hope), something had to stand in for the monsters.

Ball was determined not to make his cast react with terror to a tennis ball dangling from a stick (a common on-set, pre-effects trick), so he and some stunt men got their hands dirty.

That would explain this making-of picture Ball tweeted from back in July, showcasing the cast watching footage alongside a few blue unitard-clad men.

The stunt doubles weren’t the only ones who got in on the fun, either. Ball himself got in on the action, menacing star Dylan O’Brien with a pool noodle.

“I would actually put the helmet on and I would take these pool noodles and put the helmet on and swing this thing around like crazy and be like ‘hit me!’” he said. “One time I smacked Dylan in the face.”

Learn more about making the Grievers a reality in the interview below.

“The Maze Runner” dashes into theaters September 19.

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Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace is a brave person — from coming out as a transgender woman in Rolling Stone to penning her truly heartbreaking (yet, god-this-is-amazing) record Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Now, she has decided to lay it all bare in her new webseries, “True Trans With Laura Jane Grace.”

She’s a brave, inspiring person, yes, but she also admits that she doesn’t have it all figured out yet — and neither do any of us, really.

When Grace was given the chance to create her own show for AOL Originals, she jumped at the opportunity to reach out to all the people she had admired from afar over the years — other people dealing with gender dysphoria, an issue she had been grappling with for as long as she can remember. Over the course of touring with Against Me!, Grace spoke with different people every day — sometimes several interviews occurring each day — and learned that she’s not the only one in a constant state of flux and learning.

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“It was really reassuring just hearing how varied everyone’s end-definition of what gender means to them is,” Grace told MTV News. “Reassuring in my own way in still trying to figure that out. Having other people say it who are further along in their transition or further along in life — [who] just have more experience — hearing them be like, ‘Well, I don’t ...

By Clint Mize

Is it ever a good idea to wander around alone in a dark and dreadful, haunted house?

Probably never, and that’s why the new “Silent Hills” trailer released September 17 at the Tokyo Game Show proves once again that you should have never gotten yourself in this kind of situation from the start.

Initially announced as a new project called “P.T.,” the game was assumed to be Konami’s new creep-fest, horror game series. Later, after fans heavily scrutinized every pixel, “P.T.” was revealed to actually be a demo for an upcoming “Silent Hill” game, rebooting the classic video game series.

Additionally, it was announced that director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy”) was helping develop the property, and “The Walking Dead” actor Norman Reedus would star in the new game.

So what do we know about “Silent Hills” after watching the new concept trailer? Not a whole lot, unfortunately. From the looks of it, Konami has retained the feel and tone of the “P.T.” demo, but right now that’s the sum total of what we know.

The game currently has no release date, but stay tuned to MTV News for more as it breaks.

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In honor of the seventh season of “The Voice” kicking off on Monday, veteran coach Blake Shelton and newcomer Gwen Stefani visited “The Tonight” show on Wednesday night. Only this time it was their turn to get judged, as they became the latest victims, we mean contestants, on the show’s famed Lip Sync Battle.

Shelton, champagne glass in hand, went old school with a cover of Dutch singer Taco’s “Puttin’ On The Ritz,” complete with a bit of impressive tap dancing. Fallon flipped the script and tackled Ellie Goulding‘s “Burn,” with some very energetic hand gestures his own illuminating prop, which was just weird. But leave it to pop royalty Stefani to up the ante with a super high-energy cover of Carly Rae Jepsen‘s “Call Me Maybe.”

What did they do for round 2? Check it out.

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With additional reporting by Janelle Myers

Miley’s In Trouble Again
Miley Cyrus may be fined by Mexico’s federal government after getting her butt spanked with the country’s flag by one of her dancers at her show on Tuesday night in Monterrey. In lawmakers’ eyes, the act was disrespectful (it also happened to be Mexico’s Independence Day), and one official from the region, Francisco Trevino, stated that she may either have to cough up $1,200 or be kept in custody for three days.

I Can Hear Her Say ‘No’ Now
Meow! “Parks and Recreation” star Aubrey Plaza will voice Grumpy Cat in a tv movie, and we’ll get to see it during the most wonderful time of the year. Get this: the title of the film is “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever.”

I’m Surprised She Hasn’t Gone All ‘Black Widow’ On Him
Iggy Azalea‘s ex-boyfriend Jefe Wine has to be the worst ex-boyfriend ever, because aside from all the sex tape controversy he’s stirred up, he also leaked songs of hers from 2008, which the rapper is suing him for. She took the lawsuit to California court on Wednesday with nine complaints, including copyright infringement, and said that Wine stole the previously unreleased tracks from her personal computer and put them out without her permission.

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Ansel Elgort is back on the big screen as a teen named Tim Mooney dealing with serious angst and trying to win the heart of that special girl ...

Liam Neeson has punched a whole lot of people. This has been established already, but here, a reminder:

But did you know he’s killed a whole lot of people, too? Not in real life, of course. Just in movies. But that doesn’t make the man any less dangerous. In anticipation of this weekend’s “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” Universal released a Liam Neeson Kill Map, charting every single life the Oscar-nominated actor has claimed over the course of his cinematic career. Check it out:

That’s well over 100 bad guys that Neeson has killed on-screen, with methods ranging from firearms, swords, axes, hands, and teeth — in the form of a lion. Such a badass.

“A Walk Among the Tombstones” opens on Friday.

(via Collider)

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On October 17, MTV and Logo will simultaneously premiere “Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,” a documentary produced by “Orange Is the New Black” cast member Laverne Cox. The hour-long documentary follows the lives of seven transgender youths. They hail from New York, New Orleans and Baltimore and range in age from 12 to 24 years old, but they share common obstacles and joys.

Cox, an activist for transgender issues as well as an actress, also acts as host for the documentary, walking viewers through the difficulties of coming out, how race plays into the equation, bullying, violence and familial and social support.

Viewers will meet Kye, a Brooklyn man who was the first transgender Division I basketball player ever, as well as college freshman Ari, an 18-year-old man taking his first steps into campus life. Zoey, a 12-year-old navigating life at her new school in California after school administrators refused to acknowledge her as a girl, is also featured, among other true life stories.

After the documentary’s premiere, Logo and MTV.com will host an hour-long “Trans Forum,” hosted by Cox and SuChin Pak. Alongside the subjects of the documentary, Cox will field questions from audience members and those tuning in via social media.

The documentary was produced as part of MTV’s Look Different campaign, a multi-year initiative to identify and fight biases, whether they be based in gender, sexual orientation or race.

“Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word” will air on October 17 and 7 p.m. ET.

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