Saturday, January 25, 2025

Box Office Poison

Box Office Poison: A Hilarious and Revealing Journey Through Hollywood's Biggest Blunders with a Surprising Lesson, Discover the Untold Stories of the Film Industry's Most Memorable Failures by Tim Robey

This book tells the story of movies that were flops at the box office, and that cost a fortune. It goes from the silent film era to the present. These are of course not every movie that bombed, but the highlights of the ones have the best stories. Entertaining but does get a bit bogged down at times. Also interesting how the movie industry has changed and how the pandemic has affected movie going. Seems that there will be less expensive flops in the future and the corporations that run the movie business become less risk averse. (Also see 'The Future Was Now' previous post)