Clayface Won the Weekend, but the Holmes Documentary Grew 25 Percent. Only Five Documentaries Have Made More.

Clayface won the weekend. The bigger number belongs to the movie in second place. You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, made $19.5 million from October 23 to 25. That is 25 percent more than it made on its opening weekend, and it finished less than $5 million behind DC's first R-rated movie.

Meanwhile LAIKA beat its forecasts and still has a cost problem, a romance about a man woven from sticks found a real audience, and Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun barely registered. Here is the weekend, using Sunday studio estimates.

You Can See Everything grew in its second weekend

Movies shrink in their second weekend. Every other holdover in Box Office Mojo's top 10 fell between 49 and 72 percent. A24 took the Holmes film from 855 theaters to 2,655 on Friday, and the new screens did not thin the crowd: its average of $7,344 a theater was the best in the top 10, ahead of Clayface at $6,940, per Box Office Mojo.

After ten days it has $45.1 million in the US, on a budget of about $7 million, according to the AP, which cited FranchiseRe publisher David A. Gross. He called it a "zeitgeist film about money, dreams, truth and reality."

Last week we pointed to a precedent: Borat, which jumped from 837 screens to 2,566 in its second weekend in 2006. Its gross rose 6.9 percent, per Box Office Mojo. The Holmes film rose 25. And Alex Gibney's Musk, the other founder documentary that went wide against it on October 16, has made $643,432 in total so far, per The Numbers. You Can See Everything made about 30 times that this weekend alone.

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Only five documentaries have made more

By Box Office Mojo's count, You Can See Everything is now the sixth-highest-grossing documentary ever released in the US. In ten days it has passed Under the Sea 3D ($36.3 million), 2016: Obama's America ($33.4 million) and Won't You Be My Neighbor? ($22.8 million). Three of the five still ahead of it are concert films:

1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023): $180.8 million
2. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): $119.2 million
3. March of the Penguins (2005): $77.4 million
4. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011): $73.0 million
5. This Is It (2009): $72.1 million

It has also passed the entire US run of A24's Hereditary ($44.1 million), with Talk to Me ($48.3 million) next. And as the AP's Jake Coyle pointed out, a best picture nomination would make it the first documentary ever to get one.

Clayface: No. 1, and close to its budget already

Clayface opened to $24 million from 3,458 theaters, right inside the $23 million to $25 million Deadline projected on Friday night, as we reported Saturday. It added $19 million overseas for $43 million worldwide, against a production budget reported at $44 million.

That is well short of Supergirl's $37.1 million opening in June, and a far better deal. Supergirl made $126 million worldwide on a $170 million production budget, per the AP. Clayface is the third theatrical release from James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Studios, and its A- CinemaScore gives it a chance to hold. This Saturday is Halloween, the obvious night for a gory R-rated monster movie. See where it has to fit on our DC movies ranked list.

Wildwood: LAIKA's best start since Kubo, with a $100 million bill

Wildwood opened third with about $11.6 million, per Box Office Mojo (the AP had $11.8 million). That beat the $6 million to $10 million forecasts we cited last week, and audiences gave it an A CinemaScore. It is the stop-motion studio's best opening since Kubo and the Two Strings in 2016, and nearly twice what Missing Link opened to in 2019. It still ranks fifth of LAIKA's six openings, per Box Office Mojo:

1. The Boxtrolls (2014): $17.3 million
2. Coraline (2009): $16.8 million
3. ParaNorman (2012): $14.1 million
4. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016): $12.6 million
5. Wildwood (2026): about $11.6 million
6. Missing Link (2019): $5.9 million

The trouble is cost. The AP reports Wildwood cost $100 million and calls a profit unlikely. Coraline is the hopeful comparison: it turned a $16.8 million start into $75.3 million in the US. The next big animated release is The Cat in the Hat on November 6, so word of mouth has two weekends to work. Our review roundup explains why its PG-13 matters for who should go.

Wicker found a crowd. Klara and the Sun did not.

Wicker, the Olivia Colman romance in which a lonely fisherwoman commissions a husband made of sticks (Alexander Skarsgård), opened fifth with $5.75 million from 1,471 theaters. The AP reports it was acquired out of Sundance for $2.5 million, so its first weekend more than doubled the price. It is set to expand again on Friday.

• Street Fighter fell 72 percent. Last weekend's No. 1 made $8.6 million and has $46.9 million in the US.
• Other Mommy passed $50 million. The D-plus horror hit made $3.85 million in its third weekend for $51.5 million total.
• Klara and the Sun barely registered. Waititi's Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation made somewhere between $550,000 and $725,000 from 880 theaters, depending on the tracker, under $850 a screen either way.
• Ali G: Who Iz I? stayed quiet. Amazon MGM did not report a gross for Sacha Baron Cohen's one-weekend release.

What comes next

Saturday is Halloween. If you are staying in, our Halloween movies ranked list and our guide to 2026's best horror on streaming have the night covered. Then on November 6, The Cat in the Hat and Godzilla Minus Zero open the same day, the first real fight of November's slate.

Then rank what you saw. Add the weekend's movies to Shortlist and put them head to head, two at a time. Does a documentary about a Silicon Valley fraud beat a DC monster movie and a LAIKA fairy tale? Our movie tier list guide shows how to build the list.

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