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

Author(s): 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.

General Information

  • : 9780571381203
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 03 February 2025
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Tim Robey
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 352
  • : APFA