10 Recent Box Office Bombs EVERYONE Saw Coming

10. Better Man

There are few business decisions in recent Hollywood history more unhinged than scraping together $110 million to fund a Robbie Williams biopic where he's depicted as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee via cutting-edge, ultimately Oscar-nominated VFX.

Given that Williams isn't remotely well-known in the U.S. and biopics have generally struggled commercially in recent years, it goes without saying that producing a mega-budget dramatisation of his life, and one with such a bizarre, mainstream-alienating conceit, was doomed to flop.

For though Better Man received rave reviews from many prominent critics, it ended up grossing just $20.3 million globally - not even 20% of its budget.

That's a disastrous figure any way you slice it, and yet it was wholly predictable given the combination of tricky concept and massive production spend. 

At the very least, Better Man will have a long shelf life as a cult curio that's held up as one of the boldest and most creative musician biopics ever made, but don't expect anyone to take a wild swing on a biopic like this any time soon.