The director behind the movie 'The Greatest Showman' is out with a new musical and this time he is making a monkey out of British Superstar 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.

The Robbie Williams movie Better Man opens wide in theaters in the U.S. this weekend, which means that Americans can finally learn who the heck Robbie Williams is.

"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

After “Bohemian Rhapsody,” British music biographies found a formula that assumed one size fits all. It doesn’t. Sure, the details of a singer’s rise may be suspiciously like another’s, but the journey must have some aspects that are different.