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Box Office Poison: Hollywoods Story in a Century of Flops Audiobook, by Tim Robey Play Audiobook Sample

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

Box Office Poison: Hollywoods Story in a Century of Flops Audiobook, by Tim Robey Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 5, 2024
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Read By: Tim Robey Publisher: Harlequin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781488231957

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

30

Longest Chapter Length:

25:47 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

17:54 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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 (or most disastrous) film flops throughout history.

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