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Box Office Poison
Tim Robey
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Hollywood’s story is one of glittering success, great art, and bathtubs full of money… at least that’s what it tells itself. In this funny and smart book, Robey shows us the other side of Tinsel Town through the colossal flops from more than a century of cinema: from Cleopatra – which nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox, through Dune, Waterworld, and Babe: Pig in the City, to the modern-day disaster that was Cats.
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‘So entertaining, smart and funny.’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Beautifully written. I really enjoyed it.’ MARINA HYDE
‘A fabulous shadow history of Tinseltown.’ TLS
‘Fascinating.’ EMPIRE
‘Wildly enjoyable.’ GUARDIAN
‘Hugely entertaining.’ PROSPECT
‘Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .’
In his hugely acclaimed alternative history of Hollywood, Tim Robey leads us through a century of its most notable flops. From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats – here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.
‘Expertly researched.’ SIGHT & SOUND
‘A rollicking, gossipy triumph.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Amusing and wince-inducing in equal measure.’ INDEPENDENT
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