Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything battles Clayface at US box office

Box office standings

You Can See Everything, the documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Elizabeth Holmes, ranked at or near the top of the North American chart over a slow Halloween weekend. ANSA places it first with 10.6 million dollars in the United States and Canada, just ahead of Clayface, the Warner Bros. and DC Comics action film, at 10.4 million domestically. Wildwood, the stop-motion fantasy from Laika directed by Travis Knight, followed with 7.5 million dollars domestically, while Wicker from Black Bear took 4.1 million and the Paramount adaptation Street Fighter earned 3.2 million. ANSA also puts Clayface at 22.8 million dollars worldwide for the weekend and 83 million in total. The chart below uses ANSA's domestic weekend figures.

You Can See Everything10.6

Clayface10.4

Wildwood7.5

Wicker4.1

Street Fighter3.2

You Can See Everything

10.6 $ millions

Clayface

10.4 $ millions

Wildwood

7.5 $ millions

Wicker

4.1 $ millions

Street Fighter

3.2 $ millions

Data from the article text

Conflicting weekend figures

Rai's account of the same weekend gives a different order. It says the documentary took 19.5 million dollars in its second weekend, narrowly behind Clayface at 24 million, and that its takings rose more than 25 percent from the opening weekend as its screen count grew from 855 to 2,655. The two accounts do not match, and the articles do not explain the gap, so both versions are kept as published. Both outlets agree on the running total: Rai reports 45.1 million dollars after two weeks, while 20minutes gives 45 million dollars from thirteen days of release in the United States.

Oscar prospects and audience

Le Monde reports that the film is in contention for a nomination for best picture at the Oscars, which would be a first for a documentary in that category. Rai credits a Gen Z audience with driving attendance and says the weekend would be the second-best ever for a documentary, behind Fahrenheit 9/11. Rai also gives a reported budget of 7 million dollars, which puts the two-week gross at a large multiple of the cost. Le Monde describes the film as a phenomenon since its American release on 16 October.

The film and its subject

The documentary follows Elizabeth Holmes and her family in 2023, in the weeks before she began an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in Theranos. According to 20minutes, the crew filmed the couple at home with three cameras over the 34 days before her incarceration, capturing her husband Billy Evans and her parents. The article says Holmes, who recently gave birth, declares her innocence and was not yet in prison when the directors met her. Rai notes that Amanda Seyfried, who played Holmes in the series The Dropout, makes a surprise cameo in the film.

Release dates and availability

The Público writer, who says they are the only person publishing an opinion on the film at the directors' request, had not yet seen it. Público reports that the film was first shown in a secret session at the Telluride Festival in September. Its American commercial release followed on 16 October, but it reaches Portugal only in mid-November and is not on any streaming platform. 20minutes says it will open in French cinemas on 30 December.