Very few Brits ever cracked America. Robbie is not one of them. That's why nobody cares about his movie. It would be the same as a Gary Barlow or Duncan from Blue movie.

Better Man looks like Angela's Ashes but with a CGI monkey. Not even a CGI monkey could hide the fact that nobody cares about Robbie Williams. This is an ego project by a musician. Seems to be a few of these recently.

Spice Girls crossed over. Even Kylie Minogue had one huge hit with "Can't Get You Outta My Head." Robbie just never clicked here for some reason.

I do wonder if Justin Timberlake as a monkey would have done any better. The concept is near impossible to market.

I'm surprised he wasn't a bit more popular in the US (maybe sometimes international artists want to keep it untainted as their chill out spot? There are a few only popular in Canada artists that seemed to intentionally not go for a bigger American breakout imo whether for that reason or others) but even if he had a few top 10s with songs like Angels, it would just make him a guy like Pharrell that's way down the list for biopic options.

Spice Girls, yeah, and The Beatles. But as I said, very few.

And Kylie Minogue is Australian.

This reminds me of the guy that asked a British comedian what animals they have in the UK, "you got lions?". Americans know nothing about the rest of the world.

Excellent meme.

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a song by him

It's not exactly doing well in the UK either. It's a Conclave or We Live in Time -level performer, which is around £5-6m. Nobody seems to care here either.

Same here in Oz. Its performing just OK, or a bit under that which is bad considering it's the strongest movie going period of the year here AND he did some free concerts here a couple of weeks back to drum up publicity.

Maybe I missed it but congrats to Moana $1,012,585,981!

A DTV film last minute goes to theaters and makes $1B. Makes me wonder what a Lion King 2 Simba's Pride would have done in theaters in 1998.

Apparently sales were $300M on it. Animated sequels weren't as much a thing back then though. TS2 probably helped.

Simba's Pride (I haven't seen it so don't know the quality) would have won the 1998 box office - assuming it opened in June in place of Mulan - $250-$350m would have been on the cards.

In 1999 - Toy Story 2 was the first to be rushed out of DTV to theatrical and that was huge both in box office and critically.