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

By (author) Tim Robey

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'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.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming
Publisher | Faber & Faber
Published date | 7 Nov 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 352
Dimensions | 234 x 153 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-5713-8120-3
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BISAC | performing arts / film & video / history & criticism
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