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Box Office Poison

Name: Box Office Poison
Brand: Faber & Faber
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Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

By: Tim Robey

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eBook | 5 November 2024

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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.