You Can See Everything Tops US Box Office: A24’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Edges Clayface in Halloween Weekend Photo Finish

A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything has taken the No. 1 spot at the North American box office, edging DC Studios’ Clayface by just $200,684 in one of the closest weekend finishes of the year. According to studio estimates reported on Sunday, the documentary earned an estimated $10.6 million in its third weekend (October 30 to November 1), ahead of Clayface’s $10.4 million in its second weekend. The final rankings could still change when final receipts are reported on Monday, but the result would give You Can See Everything its first weekend at No. 1 despite being in theatres for three weeks. All figures are trade estimates.

The full top five underlines how quiet the Halloween weekend was. Laika’s animated fantasy Wildwood took third place with $7.5 million in its second weekend, taking its domestic total to $25.9 million. Wicker, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard, slipped just 28 per cent to $4.1 million for fourth place and also opened atop the UK box office with $2.2 million. The overall domestic marketplace generated an estimated $55.7 million across the weekend, down 42.1 per cent from the previous weekend, as Halloween falling on a Saturday kept audiences at parties and trick-or-treating rather than in cinemas.

The numbers behind You Can See Everything’s run are remarkable. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the documentary follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before she reported to prison and in the three years afterward. Made on a reported budget of just $7 million, it has now collected $63.9 million in North America, placing it among the top 20 documentaries of all time domestically. It has yet to open internationally, with an Australian and New Zealand cinema release set for November 12. Clayface, by contrast, has collected $44.1 million domestically and $83 million worldwide after 10 days against a reported $44 million budget.

Here is the Filmverse take: a documentary beating a DC superhero film for No. 1, even on a sleepy Halloween weekend, is the kind of result that recalibrates what studios think audiences will pay for. You Can See Everything is not a traditional documentary hit: it is a slow-burn curiosity object built on Fielder’s deadpan interrogation of one of the decade’s most infamous founders, and its week-on-week staying power suggests word of mouth is doing what marketing could not. For Hollywood, the lesson is uncomfortable but clear: in a year when franchise films keep opening soft, a $7 million film with a genuinely strange premise can outlast them all. Read our report on another record-breaking global run here: https://filmverse.in/the-odyssey-1-17-billion-overseas-universal-international-record/

Sources: Rentrak studio estimates via Associated Press and Variety reports — all box-office figures are trade estimates.