As awards buzz accumulates for Paramount‘s eclectic Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and the ABC Sports Munich Olympics thriller September 5, the studio is tweaking both titles’ theatrical rollout plan.
September 5, which was scheduled to open exclusively on Black Friday, November 29, and expand on December 13, will now bow on December 13 exclusively and go wide on January 17 for MLK Day weekend. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed movie is 86% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Meanwhile, Better Man, will still open exclusively on Christmas Day. But instead of going wide over MLK weekend, it now will go coast-to-coast on January 10. The Michael Gracey-directed feature is 87% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.
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Written by Moritz Binder and Fehlbaum, September 5 follows the ABC Sports control room in Germany during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics as the sports-focused team faces the challenges in shifting their coverage of the Israeli athletes who are taken hostage. The pic stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker and Ferdinand Dörfler.
At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV exec Roone Arledge (Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Chaplin), the story focuses on the intricate details of the high-tech broadcast capabilities of the time, juxtaposed against the many lives at stake and the moral decisions that needed to be made against a ticking clock.
Better Man follows the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Williams, who narrates this unique big-screen take of his life. Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole and Gracey penned the biopic that also stars Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Damon Herriman, Raechelle Banno, Alison Steadman, Kate Mulvany, Frazer Hadfield, Tom Budge and Anthony Hayes.
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Better Man will flop hard in the US. No one here cares about Williams. I expect it do very low numbers like Pharrell Williams Piece By Piece.
I’m unsure how it will do over here in the Uk.
I think the audience will be made up of mostly middle aged women.
I’ve never been a fan of Robbie so won’t be going to watch it.
Have any Americans even heard of Robbie Williams?
He’s an insufferable and talentless bore that we have to endure here in the UK. Just consider yourselves lucky in the US that you’re not familiar with him and his crap that passes for music.
I’m still struggling to understand why US audiences will care about a Money as a British pop star.