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

'So entertaining, smart and funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Beautifully written. I really enjoyed it.' MARINA HYDE 'Fascinating.' EMPIRE 'Wildly enjoyable.' GUARDIAN 'Hugely entertaining.' PROSPECT 'Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .' From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to cat-astrophic 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. 'Expertly researched.' SIGHT & SOUND 'A rollicking, gossipy triumph.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Amusing and wince-inducing in equal measure.' INDEPENDENT