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Box Office Poison - Hollywood's Story In A Century Of Flops (Hardcover) Loot Price: R753
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Box Office Poison - Hollywood's Story In A Century Of Flops (Hardcover): Tim Robey

Box Office Poison - Hollywood's Story In A Century Of Flops (Hardcover)

Tim Robey

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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.

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 film flops throughout history.

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Imprint: Hanover Square Press
Release date: November 2024
Authors: Tim Robey
Dimensions: 234 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-1-335-14731-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Cinema industry
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LSN: 1-335-14731-4
Barcode: 9781335147318

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