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Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

by Tim Robey

  

€ 21.25 

ISBN: 9780571381203

'An instant classic . . . funny, sharp, entertaining.' ANDREW O'HAGAN, author of Caledonian Road

A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops.

'Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .'

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops.

Freaks, Land of the Pharaohs, Dune, Speed 2, Catwoman, Cats: what can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite - or lack of it - and the circumstances that saw such box office disasters actually made? Away from the canon, here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.

324 pages.

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Date of Publication: 07/11/2024

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