Opening weekend

You Can See Everything, the documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, took an estimated $15 million from Friday through Sunday, according to Sunday estimates. It opened on 855 screens, and A24 reported more than 2,000 sellout showings over the weekend, which the distributor linked in part to a viral marketing campaign and glowing reviews after its surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The film finished second behind Paramount's video game adaptation Street Fighter, which earned an estimated $31 million.

The film was produced in secret over three years and follows Holmes in the weeks before she began her 11-year prison sentence in 2023 for defrauding investors. Holmes and her partner, California hotel heir Billy Evans, asked A24 to film their life with their two children before she surrendered. TechCrunch noted that the filmmakers had extensive access to Holmes and her family in the month before she went to jail.

How the opening compares

Accounts differ on how the debut ranks. The Independent called it the biggest opening for a non-musical documentary in more than 20 years, behind only Fahrenheit 9/11, which opened with $23.9 million in 2004. It also said the film broke the record set by the 2012 nature documentary Chimpanzee, which grossed $10.7 million. Vulture framed it differently, describing the film as the highest-opening non-musical documentary in 10 years. TechCrunch and Bloomberg called it the second-biggest debut ever for a documentary.

You Can See Everything15

Street Fighter31

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004 opening)23.9

Chimpanzee (2012 release)10.7

You Can See Everything

15 $ millions

Street Fighter

31 $ millions

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004 opening)

23.9 $ millions

Chimpanzee (2012 release)

10.7 $ millions

Data from the article text

At a New York Film Festival question and answer session after the screening, Fielder said he was still working through what he had experienced.

“I am still struggling to this day to understand what I went through.”

Reviews and awards talk

Reviews have been strong. TechCrunch reported a 99% score on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and some critics have called the film the film of the year. Early predictions imagine it could earn the first Best Picture nomination for a documentary at this year's Academy Awards. The film is set to expand to wide release the following weekend, in late October 2026, after opening in a limited number of theaters.

Netflix's first box office report

Netflix also reported box office figures for the first time, for La Bola Negra, a Spanish-language film directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis. Netflix acquired the film at the Cannes Film Festival, and it opened on four screens in New York and Los Angeles. It grossed an estimated $277,500 for the weekend, a per-screen average of $69,375, which is the second-highest for a non-English-language film. The two-hour-35-minute multigenerational epic begins a 45-day theatrical run, the streamer's longest ever exclusive theatrical release, and it won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Other films on the chart

Street Fighter topped the weekend, while the rest of the top five drew far smaller numbers. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning opened to a disappointing $5.5 million in the weekend of 9 to 11 October 2026 and has since dropped out of the top 10. Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary Musk made $306,702 over the weekend, and TechCrunch suggested its runtime and resistance from social platforms may have held it back.