r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Jan 19 '25

Domestic Paramount's BETTER MAN was an extinction-level event in its 2nd weekend, dropping a whopping -76% w/ just $255k, $1.8M total. This will likely go down as the lowest-grossing, wide studio release of 2025...

https://x.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1881013947526226016?t=JWxhq4eskqF88W_JotOs4w&s=19
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u/Acceptable_Shine_738 Netflix Jan 19 '25

They would’ve saved some money if they didn’t make Robbie Williams a CGI monkey

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u/Suchgallbladder Jan 19 '25

But there in lies the problem. If he wasn’t a CGI monkey Robbie Williams wouldn’t have starred in the film. The CGI monkey was just a big ploy so that Robbie could star in his own biopic.

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u/uberduger Jan 19 '25

Wait, so he did the voice?

Not sure why they used someone else for the singing then. Surely they'd have had enough material between outtakes, live versions, and AI-modded versions of him singing now, to be able to have HIM sing the songs of the film (as they obviously wouldn't use the recordings everyone knows, for fear of boring people).

All very strange to me!

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u/urkermannenkoor Jan 19 '25

Wait, so he did the voice?

No. He only did some narration at the start and end of the movie. The chimp was purely done by the actor. That person is just wrong.

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u/Skyblacker Jan 22 '25

The narration was throughout the movie.