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First, he got a taste of the TV bug on Celebrity Apprentice. Then he had a part in last year's An American Carol. And now the multi-faceted Trace Adkins is going full-on silver screen. He's joined the cast of this cool new film called Lifted, which is about a talented singer named Henry Matthews who has to find a different road to success when his Marine dad is deployed to Afghanistan. His road is through a faux show, Teen Starquest, where Adkins plays a country star turned singing-competition judge. (Sound familiar?) Ruben Studdard, of American Idol fame, is in the movie, too. It's currently being shot in Birmingham, Ala., even though Adkins is currently on tour pretty much everywhere else. The film is expected in September 2010.