As soon as once more, we People have confirmed ourselves wholly resistant to the charms of big-deal UK pop star Robbie Williams, whether or not or not he takes the type of a CGI monkey. 1 / 4 century in the past, Williams noisily launched his solo profession, and the USA gave it a massive shrug. Now, the brand new biopic Higher Man, which tells Williams’ story by means of the eyes of a CGI monkey, is a powerful flop within the US. As Selection stories, Higher Man, director Michael Gracey’s follow-up to the blockbuster musical The Biggest Showman, opened large final weekend and barely earned $1 million. The journal’s tweet in regards to the movie’s paltry field workplace went viral, with tons of individuals saying some model of “we don’t know who that’s.”
The Robbie Williams biopic “Higher Man” isn’t precisely going bananas with a puny $580,000 opening day. Paramount acquired the function for North American distribution for $25 million. https://t.co/zzA9dcFRS2 pic.twitter.com/8JWl4kFIQq
— Selection (@Selection) January 11, 2025
In the meantime, Williams’ track “Forbidden Street” has been disqualified from the Oscars shortlist. However these disappointments didn’t cease Williams’ appeal offensive. On Sunday, as business hopes for Higher Man had been crumbling, Robbie Williams did a Q&A occasion in New York. He wore a leopard-print coat, introduced his daughter onstage, and officiated a marriage ceremony when a member of the viewers requested him to do it. Williams used the web to change into an ordained minister in 2002, so he had the {qualifications}. From the footage of this momentous occasion, it seems that Williams upheld his sacred obligation whereas ingesting a Slurpee. Witness it under.
At in the present day’s BETTER MAN Q&A in NYC, Robbie Williams was susceptible, receptive to the viewers’s vitality, took time to have a coronary heart to coronary heart together with his daughter, after which a person within the viewers requested him, as an ordained minister, to officiate a wedding together with his fiancé. Unimaginable. pic.twitter.com/I7DShBCldK
— Ezra Cubero (@EzraCubero) January 12, 2025
I really like NYC what do you imply Robbie Williams officiated a marriage at this Q&A? https://t.co/46Qp1TEUew pic.twitter.com/s3vP7TPyCJ
— Brian (@midsommarz) January 12, 2025
I used to be among the many hundreds of thousands of People who didn’t see Higher Man this weekend. I’ll get round to it will definitely. He looks as if a very good man.
