It came down to a couple of hundred thousand dollars, but the documentary won. You Can See Everything, the A24 film made by Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, finished top of the North American box office over the Halloween weekend. It pipped DC’s horror-tinged Clayface in one of the quietest weekends of the year.
According to weekend figures reported by Rotten Tomatoes and Awards Radar, using Box Office Mojo data, the documentary took about $10.6 million from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November. Clayface was just behind on roughly $10.4 million. Last week we reported that forecasters had the two films neck and neck, and that is how it played out.
A record that stood since Fahrenheit 9/11
Rotten Tomatoes said You Can See Everything is the first non-concert documentary to top the weekend chart since Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 in June 2004. It also noted that the film, which runs close to three hours, is only the fourth documentary to play in more than 3,000 cinemas.
The film’s run has been unusual. It did not open at No 1. Instead it kept growing as A24 expanded it into more cinemas, and it reached the top spot several weeks into its release. Its North American total now stands at about $63.8 million, which Rotten Tomatoes says makes it the seventh-highest-grossing documentary on record by its count. Awards Radar reported that A24 is hoping for a final total of $90 million to $100 million, which would be a remarkable result for a non-fiction film.
Its weekend take was down about 43 per cent on the previous weekend. That is a gentle fall in a weekend when audiences stayed away from cinemas.
Clayface slides but DC still has reasons to smile
Clayface, which opened at No 1 a week earlier, fell about 57 per cent in its second weekend. Rotten Tomatoes estimated it is heading for a North American finish somewhere around $60 million to $70 million. Awards Radar said its worldwide total of about $83 million has already overtaken The Substance, which the site described as the previous top earner among body-horror films.
Further down the top ten, LAIKA’s stop-motion animation Wildwood was third on about $7.4 million to $7.5 million, a drop of only around 39 per cent. The Olivia Colman film Wicker, a Sundance title from Black Bear, was fourth with $4.1 million, falling just 28 per cent after expanding into hundreds more cinemas.
Paramount’s Street Fighter had a tougher time. It fell by more than 60 per cent in its third weekend to about $3.2 million, although Rotten Tomatoes said it has now passed $100 million worldwide. A live concert screening, BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ in São Paulo: Live Viewing, slipped into sixth place with about $3 million.
Sony’s Resident Evil crossed $400 million worldwide, making it the third horror film this year to pass that mark, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Universal’s Other Mommy has now taken more than $107 million globally.
Why Halloween was so quiet
With Halloween on a Saturday, parties and trick-or-treating kept many people at home or out of cinemas. Rotten Tomatoes said it was the slowest box office weekend since January, and few studios were willing to launch a major new release into it.
For Irish cinema-goers, the US chart is a useful guide to what is building momentum, but release dates here do not always match. Check your local cinema listings for when titles such as You Can See Everything and Wicker are showing in Ireland.
What happens next
The quiet spell is about to end. Rotten Tomatoes said the holiday season effectively starts next weekend, with new releases including The Cat in the Hat and Godzilla Minus Zero heading into cinemas. That is likely to push both the documentary and Clayface down the chart. The question for A24 is how much further its slow-burn hit can climb before the blockbusters arrive in force.
Sony Pictures Classics will also be watching The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which jumped into the top ten after expanding to more than 1,100 cinemas. Rotten Tomatoes said it is expected to finish among the distributor’s biggest earners since 2020.
Sources
- Rotten Tomatoes: Weekend Box Office: You Can See Everything Hits a Milestone Over Slow Halloween Weekend (1 November 2026)
- Awards Radar: Box Office Report for the Week of November 1 (1 November 2026)
Featured image: Europa Cinema Auditorium, February 2025 by City of Zagreb, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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