Despite being purchased for $25 million, Robbie Williams' music biopic, in which he is a monkey, was a box office disaster.

Does he act like him? Does he talk like him?” There were other reasons why it was better to work with a monkey than a man. “With musical biopics, you deal with the star or their estate ...

Our review: the CGI stand-in for singer Robbie Williams in 'Better Man' does not make it a better movie, which audiences ...

Enter filmmaker Michael Gracey (“The Greatest Showman”), whose latest film “Better Man” is a biopic about Williams with a twist. Jonno Davies plays Williams as a CGI monkey, with WETA FX ...

(As a monkey.) The film, however, would surely be better as a conversation with a therapist, rather than an estimated $110 million-budget movie. “Better Man” charts Williams’ childhood in ...

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 ...

but with a monkey. Relying on Weta's motion capture technology, the actor Jonno Davies stands in for Williams. In “Better Man,” which is in theaters nationwide Friday, that makes for a ...

“Better Man” Directed by Michael Gracey ... But there’s a twist: Williams is played by a CGI monkey. Even more intriguing, the film never explictly explains or even acknowledges the ...

Better Man isn't the hit Paramount was hoping for - at least not in the US.