Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Robey, Tim
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Robey, Tim

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

A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios...
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Author: Tim Robey
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Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Robey, Tim

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

$67.61
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops by Robey, Tim

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

$67.61
Author: Tim Robey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history.

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

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite-or lack of it-and the circumstances that saw such flops actually made? Away from the canon, this is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.

Robey covers a vast century of flops, including: Intolerance; Queen Kelly; Freaks; Sylvia Scarlett; The Magnificent Ambersons; Land of the Pharoahs; Doctor Dolittle; Sorcerer; Dune; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Nothing But Trouble; The Hudsucker Proxy; Cutthroat Island; Speed 2: Cruise Control; Babe: Pig in the City; Supernova; Rollerball; The Adventures of Pluto Nash; Gigli; Alexander; Catwoman; A Sound of Thunder; Speed Racer; Synecdoche, New York; Pan; and Cats.

From Daily Telegraph film critic Tim Robey, this is a brilliantly fun exploration of human nature and stupidity in some of the greatest (or most disastrous) film flops throughout history.

Author: Tim Robey
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781335147318


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2024
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