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Box Office Poison

Author: Tim Robey

Paperback, 2025

169 SEK

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Release date: September 30, 2025

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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.

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

‘Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .’

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ISBN: 9780571381210
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Year: 2025
Pages: 244

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