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• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
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Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

Director

Bill Couturié

Writers

Peter Bart (book "Boffo!: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb") (screenplay) | Bill Couturié (screenplay)

Producers

Bill Couturié | Anne Sandkuhler

Composer

Todd Boekelheide

Cinematographer

Stephen Lighthill

Editor

Mark Brewer

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Release date

Jun 13, 2006 (United States)

Awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy Award.

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