Box office poison : Hollywood's story in a century of flops / Tim Robey.

Robey, Tim, author

London : Faber & Faber, 2024.

324 pages ; 24 cm

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.

9780571381203 (hbk)

791.430979494
791.4309
791.43

PN1993.5.U65

791.430979494

English

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