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.

Robbie Williams — who rose from the boy band Take That to become one of the biggest UK music icons of the ‘90s and early ’00s — is transformed into a singing, dancing chimpanzee thanks to the

A few nibbly things from some of our favorite websites that we think you might enjoy or would like to nibble on, so to speak. Paramount’s musical biopic Better Man, featuring a CGI monkey portraying British singer Robbie Williams,