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

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    ISBN: 9780571381203
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    AuthorRobey, Tim
    Pub Date07/11/2024
    BindingHardback
    Pages352
    Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD
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    From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats - a riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops.

    'Hugely entertaining.' Prospect
    'An instant classic.' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Caledonian Road
    'Expertly researched.' Sight & Sound
    'A rollicking, gossipy triumph.' Daily Telegraph *****
    'Wildly enjoyable.' Guardian

    '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.