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.

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

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