Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything stormed to a number two debut at the North American box office on an estimated $15m through A24, delivering the biggest documentary debut in more than two decades since Fahrenheit 9/11.
The feature has been one of the major talking points within awards circles since its surprise screening at Telluride last month and sees HBO star Fielder embed inside the rental home of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in 2023 before she reports to prison after being found guilty of defrauding investors in her biotech start-up.
The R-rated You Can See Everything opened on 855 screens and scored the biggest debut by a film on less than 1,000 since Borat in 2006, and will expand next weekend. Grossing $5.5m on Friday, $5.2m on Saturday, and $4.2m on Sunday, it was a big hit with the Gen Z and Millennial crowd, with 70% of the audience was aged under 35 and a 55%-45% male-female split. The film scored all-time-high 4.8 score on Letterboxd, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
This weekend’s performance will only intensify speculation over whether the film will become the first documentary to earn a best picture Oscar nomination. The story of Holmes clearly has enduring appeal. Amanda Seyfried starred in Hulu’s 2022 limited series The Dropout. The entrepreneur’s 11-year sentence was reduced due to good behaviour and she is scheduled for release in 2030.
Paramount secured its first post-merger number one as the video game adaptation Street Fighter opened top of the charts on $31m from 3,575, while two other debuts filled out the top five. 20th Century Studios’ well-reviewed underwater thriller Whalefall directed by Brian Duffield and starring Austin Abrams from Resident Evil arrived via Disney in fourth place on $8m from 3,065.
Focus Features and Working Titles’ adaptation of Jane Austen’s evergreen classic Sense And Sensibility placed fifth on $7.3m from 2,545. Georgia Oakley directs Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane and the cast includes George MacKay and Fiona Shaw. Universal’s horror Other Mommy fell 70% in its second session on $8.4m, placing third on a $44.9m running total. Sony’s Resident Evil from Zach Cregger in seventh place stands on the cusp of $150m after five sessions and added $5.5m for $148.5m.
Rentrak reported total weekend box office amounted to $103.9m from 35 films as year-to-date reached $8.2bn to track just shy of 20% ahead of the comparable number in 2025.
