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Go ‘Inside the Sausage Factory’ with Movieline, MSN, LA Times, and UGO This Sunday at SXSW

Want to know what it’s really like covering the film industry from a journalist’s standpoint? Movieline will join representatives from MSN, the LA Times , and UGO this Sunday in Austin for a wide-reaching SXSW panel discussion on the realities of writing about film in the internet age. (Spoiler alert: It’s complicated.) Mark your calendars and get ready to peel back the layers as we go inside the sausage factory!

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Go ‘Inside the Sausage Factory’ with Movieline, MSN, LA Times, and UGO This Sunday at SXSW

Where Does Justin Bieber’s 3D Movie Rank Among the Most Cynically Conceived Films Ever?

No matter how many reboots, remakes, sequels, fad cash-ins and the like are cranked out of the Hollywood sausage factory every year, there is somehow always room to be genuinely shocked by the film industry’s cynicism. To wit: Did anyone actually see a 3D feature starring tween-pop heartthrob Justin Bieber — and likely directed by Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim, no less — coming? And in any case, where does this craven catch-all of faddy phenomena rank among some of the all-time greats of Hollywood cynicism?

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Where Does Justin Bieber’s 3D Movie Rank Among the Most Cynically Conceived Films Ever?