Robbie Williams talks about 'Better Man,' his time in the British boy band Take That and who is Robbie Williams.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “Better Man” is the movie everyone’s talking about but no one’s buying tickets to see. The biopic, about global pop star Robbie Williams, bombed in its first weekend of wide release, pulling in just $1 million across 1,291 theaters. The film and theories about why it flopped have ignited a contentious discourse on social media.

Better Man” tells the pop star’s tale through the persona of a monkey. “People found it odd at first, but that’s OK. I’m odd,” he says.

"Better Man," a biopic themed on the life and career of pop star Robbie Williams, failed to impact audiences in the US and the UK.

For the past two hours, they’d watched the real-life story of Robbie Williams — a British pop singer who’s sold over 75 million records — acted out by a CGI monkey. Perhaps my fellow moviegoers needed further confirmation that the star of Better Man was,

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