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

Robey, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1335147314 ISBN 13: 9781335147318

Verlag: Hanover Square Press, 2024

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***A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK OF NOVEMBER 2024***

"A wild success." — Publishers Weekly

"A surefire hit." —Library Journal STARRED review

"A brilliant star turn." —Andrew O’Hagan

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 film flops throughout history.

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Since 2000, Tim Robey has reviewed films, written features and conducted interviews for the Daily Telegraph's arts pages. He appears regularly on Radio 4's Front Row and Monocle FM Radio, contributed to R4's now-defunct Film Programme, and appeared as a sofa guest on BBC Film 2015-2017. He is the co-author of The DVD Stack I & II (Canongate, 2006/7). He gave Cats zero stars, but has now seen it four times. His favorite film is Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hanover Square Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1335147314
• ISBN 13: 9781335147318
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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