The “You Can See Everything” box office run reached a new peak over Halloween weekend, when the three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary took No. 1 for the first time. A24’s film finished the Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 frame with $11.4 million to the $11 million earned by Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “Clayface,” Variety reported.
That result didn’t come until Monday. Each distributor had claimed first place on projections of roughly $10.5 million, but final numbers put the documentary ahead by about $443,000, thanks to a $4.3 million Sunday that was its best day of the weekend.
The win makes “You Can See Everything” only the fourth documentary to top a weekend and the first to do it after its opening frame, according to The Numbers.
Why Halloween weekend ran so slow
Halloween landed on a Saturday this year, taking a bite out of what is usually the biggest moviegoing night of the week. The holiday last fell on a Saturday in 2015 and 2020, when most theaters were closed during the pandemic, according to Deadline.
A Friday Halloween didn’t help much last year. Deadline put that weekend at $57.3 million, the fifth-lowest total of 2025. This year’s frame came in around $60 million, one of the slowest of 2026, Variety reported.
How both films held up
“You Can See Everything” slipped 39% from its second weekend, according to Box Office Watch, edging the roughly 40% decline Deadline had expected. A24 also added 588 theaters, bringing the film to 3,243 locations.
“Clayface” dropped 54% from its $24 million debut, a softer landing than the 60% slide Deadline had anticipated. James Watkins’ body horror film played in 3,478 theaters, just 235 more than the documentary.
Where the domestic totals stand
“You Can See Everything” reached $64.7 million through Sunday, per Box Office Mojo. TheWrap ranked it as October’s No. 2 film behind Amazon MGM’s “Verity,” which stood at $74.3 million through the same weekend, according to Box Office Watch.
“Clayface” hit $44.7 million domestically in its first 10 days, per Box Office Watch. Its reported budget falls between $40 million and $44 million, depending on the outlet.
What’s driving the documentary
Co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the film follows the Theranos founder through the 34 days before she reported to prison in 2023 to begin an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors. The filmmakers kept following the story for about three years.
Memes have fed the film’s momentum, Deadline reported, and Holmes and Fielder became go-to Halloween costumes this year. That helped a talky true-crime oddity outlast a gory DC monster movie on the one weekend built for horror.
“You Can See Everything” has already passed “Bowling for Columbine” ($21.6 million), “An Inconvenient Truth” ($24.1 million) and “Hubble 3D” ($52.5 million) in domestic grosses. The next big target is far off. Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” still leads all documentaries outside the nature and concert categories with $119.1 million, about $54 million ahead.
What’s next at the box office
Competition arrives Nov. 6. “The Cat in the Hat” opens in about 4,000 theaters, according to The Numbers, while “Godzilla Minus Zero,” “Wild Horse Nine” and “Ramayana” also join the market.
“You Can See Everything” still has new territory ahead. It opens in Australia and New Zealand on Nov. 12 and in the U.K. on Nov. 20, according to Deadline.
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