‘You Can See Everything’ Leads Halloween Box Office, Tops $52M in U.S.

WHO:

Variety - “You Can See Everything” is a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder.

Deadline - Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder were reported as popular Halloween costume choices.

MovieWeb - Holmes’s partner, Billy Evans, approached A24 with her about making a documentary.

MovieWeb - A24 assigned the project to director Lance Oppenheim, who brought in Nathan Fielder.

MovieWeb - The documentary features Holmes, Evans and their two children; portions of correspondence are recreated by an unnamed A-list actress.

WHAT:

Variety - “You Can See Everything” earned $3.56 million on its third Friday, narrowly beating “Clayface” for the day’s North American box-office lead.

Variety - The documentary was showing in 3,243 North American theaters.

Deadline - The film’s U.S. cumulative box office had passed $52 million and was rising; Deadline reported an expected Halloween-frame total of around $10 million or more.

MovieWeb - The film expanded to more than 3,200 theaters in its third weekend after A24 added about 600 screens.

MovieWeb - It held a 4.8/5 average on Letterboxd, the highest feature-film rating in the platform’s history. About 73% of its Letterboxd reviews gave it five stars.

MovieWeb - The previous Letterboxd benchmark was “Harakiri” at 4.7; “12 Angry Men” and “Come and See” each had 4.6.

MovieWeb - The documentary had scores of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and 97 on Metacritic. The quoted critics’ consensus described it as “an inscrutable Rorschach test of Elizabeth Holmes’s psyche that’s as absorbing as it is haunting.”

MovieWeb - The film’s production budget was $7 million; the article said A24 reached profitability almost immediately.

MovieWeb - The film grew 25% in its second weekend.

WHERE:

Variety - The reported box-office figures and theater count were for North America.

MovieWeb - Filming began at a rental home in San Diego.

WHEN:

MovieWeb - A24 kept the project secret for three years before presenting it at the Telluride Film Festival.

MovieWeb - Holmes reported to federal prison in 2023.

WHY:

MovieWeb - Holmes was sent to federal prison for defrauding Theranos investors.

HOW:

MovieWeb - What began as a month of filming at the San Diego rental home became a three-year project that continued after Holmes’s incarceration.

Deadline - The film’s box-office momentum was attributed to sustained social-media memes and Halloween costumes inspired by Holmes and Fielder.

(UPDATED October 31, 2026 17:58 UTC)

Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” topped North American theaters Friday. It earned $3.56 million, narrowly beating “Clayface.” Co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, the film has surpassed $52 million domestically.