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.

There are moments in "Better Man," the often thrilling biopic of unabashedly cheeky U.K. pop star Robbie Williams, where you forget you're watching a CGI monkey in the lead role. But you are watching a CGI monkey,

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