NewsNovember 2, 2026Updated 5 min read

You Can See Everything Won the Weekend in Its Third Week. Clayface Won Halloween.

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary beat Clayface by about $440,000 in Box Office Mojo's final count. Every documentary or concert film we found at No. 1 before it got there on opening weekend, and the closest precedent is Michael Jackson's This Is It, which won the same three dates in 2009.

A woman laughs in a dim kitchen while a man and a child look on, in a still from A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything
Image via The Movie Database (TMDB)

It took three weekends, but Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything is the No. 1 movie in America. The A24 documentary about Elizabeth Holmes made $11.4 million from October 30 to November 1. Clayface made $11.0 million. Sunday's estimates had the gap at about $200,000. Box Office Mojo's final count on Monday put it at $443,513, and the order held.

The daily numbers explain how it happened. The documentary won Friday ($3.57 million) and Sunday ($4.30 million), per Box Office Mojo. Clayface won Saturday, which was Halloween, with $4.28 million, its best day of the weekend. The DC monster movie owned the holiday. A three-hour documentary about a Silicon Valley fraud owned the rest of the weekend.

Seven documentaries won a weekend before it, all on opening weekend

You may see You Can See Everything called the fourth documentary ever to win a weekend. Box Office Mojo's own weekend charts show more than that. We found seven earlier documentaries and concert films that finished No. 1:

  1. Fahrenheit 9/11 (June 25 to 27, 2004): $23.9 million from 868 theaters
  2. Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (February 1 to 3, 2008): $31.1 million
  3. This Is It (October 30 to November 1, 2009): $23.2 million
  4. One Direction: This Is Us (August 30 to September 1, 2013): $15.8 million
  5. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (October 13 to 15, 2023): $93.2 million, then No. 1 again the next weekend
  6. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (December 1 to 3, 2023): $21.8 million
  7. Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl (October 3 to 5, 2025): $34.1 million

Six of the seven are music films. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is the only exception, which makes You Can See Everything the second nonmusic documentary we could find to win a weekend. And every film on that list was No. 1 on its opening weekend. None of them climbed there.

You Can See Everything climbed. It opened second with $15.6 million from 855 theaters, behind Street Fighter. In its second weekend it rose 20 percent to $18.7 million (Box Office Mojo's final figure, a little under the $19.5 million Sunday estimate we reported last week) and finished second again, this time behind Clayface. This weekend it fell 39 percent and still won, because nobody new was strong enough to stop it.

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The two closest precedents

Poster for Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is the obvious one: a political documentary that opened on almost the same number of screens. Moore's film started on 868 and won. Fielder's started on 855 and came second. Fahrenheit 9/11 then lost the top spot to Spider-Man 2 the following weekend.

The stranger match is This Is It. The Michael Jackson rehearsal film won October 30 to November 1, 2009, the exact dates You Can See Everything just won, and that year Halloween also fell on a Saturday. A week later it lost No. 1 to Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol. This year's Scrooge movie, Ti West's Ebenezer with Johnny Depp, opens November 13.

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Sixth on the all-time documentary list, and closing in on fifth

After 17 days the film has $64.7 million in the US, on a budget the AP puts at about $7 million. A24 added 588 theaters on Friday for a total of 3,243, and the documentary still had the best per-theater average in the top 10, at $3,529.

By Box Office Mojo's count it is the sixth-highest-grossing documentary ever released in the US. Here is what is still ahead of it:

  • This Is It (2009): $72.1 million, about $7.4 million away
  • Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011): $73.0 million
  • March of the Penguins (2005): $77.4 million
  • Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): $119.2 million
  • Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023): $180.8 million

As of November 2, A24 has not announced a digital or streaming date, so theaters are still the only way to see it.

Clayface had Halloween and still dropped 54 percent

Poster for DC Studios' Clayface
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The first R-rated film in James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Universe got the holiday it was built for, and its Saturday was strong. Friday and Sunday were weaker, and the weekend came in 54.2 percent under its $24 million opening, per Box Office Mojo.

After ten days Clayface has $44.7 million in the US and about $83 million worldwide, against a production budget the AP reports at $44 million. Its US total alone has already matched that figure, a very different position from Supergirl, which made $126 million worldwide on a $170 million budget, per the AP. See where it fits on our DC movies ranked list, or next to the other Gotham villains in our Batman movies ranked list.

The rest of the weekend

  • Wildwood held on. LAIKA's stop-motion fantasy made $8.9 million, down 27 percent, for $27.4 million in total, per Box Office Mojo. The AP reports a $100 million budget. Our review roundup explains why its PG-13 matters.
  • Wicker kept growing. The Olivia Colman romance added 903 theaters, fell just 24 percent to $4.4 million, and has $13.5 million so far.
  • Street Fighter faded. It made $3.7 million, down 57 percent, for $53.5 million in the US against a reported $82 million budget.
  • The Only Living Pickpocket in New York broke out. Sony Pictures Classics took Noah Segan's John Turturro movie from six theaters to 1,112, and it made $1.9 million.
  • Everest: The Other Side opened small. The IMAX climbing documentary we picked last week made $1.1 million from 515 theaters.
  • The Mosquito Bowl made $460,000 from 349 theaters ahead of its November 25 arrival on Netflix.

The AP called it a sleepy Halloween weekend, with the top films on pace for under $56 million combined, which would make it the second-lowest weekend of 2026. The year is still up more than 17 percent, at nearly $8.5 billion.

Friday ends the run, probably

The Cat in the Hat and Godzilla Minus Zero both open November 6, and the trackers we cited in our November preview have each of them in the $25 million to $40 million range. Either would beat $11.4 million comfortably. Minus Zero is the R-rated sequel to an Oscar winner, and the reviews are strong. Our Godzilla movies ranked list shows the bar it has to clear.

If you have not seen You Can See Everything yet, this is the week to go, while it is on 3,243 screens. Clear the evening: it runs 2 hours and 54 minutes.

Then rank it. 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 on your list? Our movie tier list guide shows how to build it.

Frequently asked

Did You Can See Everything win the weekend box office?

Yes. A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything made $11.4 million from October 30 to November 1, 2026, its third weekend, edging Clayface ($11.0 million) by about $440,000 in Box Office Mojo's final count. Its US total is $64.7 million.

Which documentaries have been No. 1 at the US box office?

Box Office Mojo's weekend charts show Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008), This Is It (2009), One Direction: This Is Us (2013), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023), Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023) and Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl (2025) winning a weekend, each on opening weekend. You Can See Everything reached No. 1 in its third weekend, on October 30 to November 1, 2026.

Is You Can See Everything the highest-grossing documentary ever?

No. With $64.7 million in the US after 17 days, You Can See Everything ranks sixth among documentaries by Box Office Mojo's count, behind This Is It ($72.1 million), Justin Bieber: Never Say Never ($73.0 million), March of the Penguins ($77.4 million), Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million) and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ($180.8 million).

Is You Can See Everything streaming?

Not as of November 2, 2026. You Can See Everything is playing only in theaters, on 3,243 US screens, and A24 has not announced a digital or streaming release date.

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