• Box Office Poison

  • Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
  • By: Tim Robey
  • Narrated by: Tim Robey
  • Length: 10 hrs

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Box Office Poison

By: Tim Robey
Narrated by: Tim Robey
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Publisher's summary

'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.

©2024 Tim Robey (P)2024 Faber & Faber

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