Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops
Author(s): Tim Robey
'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
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 03 February 2025
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Tim Robey
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 352
- : APFA