You Can See Everything edges Clayface for No. 1 on slow Halloween weekend
Final Monday figures put A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything at No. 1 with $11.4 million, ahead of Clayface at $11 million, after studios on Sunday had disagreed over which film was on top.
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What happened
A24's You Can See Everything, a three-hour documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from directors Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, finished No. 1 for Friday through Sunday in its third weekend with $11.4 million, down 39% from last weekend, according to Monday's final figures reported by Deadline and Box Office Mojo. That brings its running total to $64.7 million. Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding Theranos investors.
Why it matters
A three-hour documentary winning No. 1 in its third weekend is unusual. "That's a rare achievement for any film, let alone a documentary running more than three hours," Rentrak's Paul Dergarabedian told Variety. A24 made the film for $7 million, Variety reported, and a weekend this slow shows how few big studio films are in theaters before the holiday season.
More context
The race: Warner Bros. and DC's Clayface, a spinoff about a Batman villain, took in $11 million in its second weekend, down 54%, for $44.7 million in total. On Sunday, Warner Bros. had said Clayface was No. 1 with an estimated $10.4 million, and some rival studios agreed. The documentary won instead thanks to a $4.3 million Sunday, its best day of the weekend, Deadline reported. Worldwide, Clayface still led with $23.5 million for the weekend.
Top eight (Friday–Sunday, final): 1. You Can See Everything, $11.4M; 2. Clayface, $11M; 3. Laika's stop-motion film Wildwood, $8.9M (total $27.4M); 4. Wicker, $4.4M (total $13.5M); 5. Street Fighter, $3.7M (total $53.5M); 6. a BTS world tour concert film from Trafalgar Releasing, an estimated $2.8M in its first weekend; 7. Other Mommy, $2.6M (total $55.7M); 8. Resident Evil, $2.6M (total $157.4M).
How slow is slow: On Sunday, Deadline estimated that all films combined grossed $62.2 million, down 38% from last weekend and the third-lowest weekend of 2026, ahead of only Jan. 23–25 ($54.7 million) and Feb. 6–8 ($61.9 million). Several films came in above those estimates on Monday. The last time Halloween fell on a Saturday with most theaters open, in 2015, the weekend grossed $74.1 million, according to Deadline. Halloween on a weekend usually hurts ticket sales because people go to parties and trick-or-treat instead.
The documentary record: You Can See Everything has already passed An Inconvenient Truth ($24.1 million) and Hubble 3D ($52.5 million) at the domestic box office. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the top-grossing documentary that is not a nature or concert film, at $119.1 million. A24 also crossed $500 million in domestic ticket sales for the year, its best ever, Deadline reported.
What's still unknown: Whether the documentary can keep its pace. It opens in Australia and New Zealand on Nov. 12 and in the UK on Nov. 20, Deadline reported, so its overseas totals are still small.
3 listed sources
- Deadline, Nov. 2, 2026 (Monday a.m. update)
- Box Office Mojo, Domestic 2026 Weekend 44
- Variety, Nov. 2, 2026
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Editorial sourcing notes
Weekend numbers for individual films are final Monday actuals from Deadline and Box Office Mojo. The all-films weekend total is Deadline's Sunday estimate. Photos are file photos: Elizabeth Holmes at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 and Nathan Fielder in 2017. No promotional stills are used.
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