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/xx4xx Jan 20 '25

WOW. A movie about a singing chimp telling the tale of an English music star who hasn't done shit in a decade and is a no name in USA totally bombs in the USA box office.

No exec saw this coming? Crazy

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u/air3-4 Jan 21 '25

If you posted this a month ago you’d have 40 replies telling you how popular and still relevant Robbie Williams is to this day because he’s on the radio somewhere in the world. And then you’d be told “Americans are the only ones not looking forward to this”.

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u/Left_Connection_8476 Jan 23 '25

Sounds like a PR/marketing plan; invade social media with positive comments!

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u/Toddison_McCray Jan 24 '25

Reddit is an echo chamber that is completely out of touch with reality. People heard that this guy is still popular in the UK, and just repeated it.