10 Recent Box Office Duds Destined To Become Cult Classics

Hotel Artemis may have tanked at the box office after failing to even recoup a modest $15m budget, but it nonetheless ticks many of the boxes associated with similar genre flicks that go on to become cult favorites; it has a great concept, a unique setting with its own inbuilt mythology, and an ensemble cast of great actors playing characters with cool nicknames.

Jodie Foster (The Nurse), Dave Bautista (Everest), Sterling K. Brown (Waikiki), Sofia Boutella (Nice), Charlie Day (Acapulco) and Jeff Goldblum (The Wolf King) all feature, which is quite the murderer's row of wonderfully-named character actors. Poor Zachary Quinto drew the short straw and plays a guy named Crosby. Despite the strong premise, the movie infuriatingly becomes increasingly formulaic and predictable as it reaches its conclusion.

Led by Foster's unsurprisingly great performance as the steward of the titular hotel for shady characters, first-time director Drew Pearce attempts to juggle several different genres but can't seem to get all the plates spinning at once, which is probably to be expected when you could describe Hotel Artemis as a dystopian-pulp-crime-noir-action-thriller, and that still probably wouldn't do it justice.