Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary You Can See Everything has powered to $80 million in North America after just four weekends in theaters, placing it as the second-highest grossing non-music documentary in regional box office history, Variety reported.
You Can See Everything Earns $8.8 Million in Fourth Frame
- You Can See Everything collected $8.8 million in its fourth frame from 2,473 theaters, marking a minimal 23% decline.
- The A24 release centers on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as she prepares for an 11-year prison sentence.
- With a $7 million production budget, the nearly three-hour film is poised to clear $100 million domestically before its international rollout.
The Box Office Trajectory
The A24 release brought in $8.8 million over the weekend from 2,473 theaters in its fourth frame. That drop marked a minimal 23% decline from previous weeks, keeping the film on a steady trajectory toward the $100 million domestic mark. Variety reported that the movie opened to $15 million in mid-October following a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
That domestic total pushes the nearly three-hour feature past 2005’s March of the Penguins, which finished its run with $77 million in North America. The only non-music documentary ahead of it is Michael Moore’s 2005 film Fahrenheit 9/11, which pulled in $119 million domestically.
“You Can See Everything” now ranks as the second-highest-grossing non-music documentary ever in North America, above 2005’s “March of the Penguins” ($77 million) and behind Michael Moore’s 2005 film “Fahrenheit 9/11” ($119 million).https://t.co/4Jmqg4QShM pic.twitter.com/S2gzaI0DXN
Surpassing Major Fall Releases
The documentary’s performance outpaces several major fall releases that benefited from multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. Variety reported that You Can See Everything has outgrossed Oppenheim’s drama Primetime at $46 million, DC’s comic book adventure Clayface at $56 million, Brad Pitt’s survival thriller Heart of the Beast at $67 million, and the Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson-led adaptation Verity at $75 million.
Within A24’s own catalog, the film stands as the indie studio’s third-biggest domestic release ever. It surpasses 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once at $77 million, trailing only this summer’s Backrooms at $197 million and 2025’s Marty Supreme at $96 million.
The Rules of Documentary Performance
“‘You Can See Everything’ has really broken the rules of how a documentary can perform at the box office,” Rentrak’s head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian said, according to Variety. “It has defied box office gravity week after week and clearly captured the imagination of audiences.”
The project follows Elizabeth Holmes over three years as she prepares for an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her health technology company, Theranos. Audiences have returned to theaters multiple times to process the film, joining prior dramatizations of the scandal like the Hulu series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried and Alex Gibney’s documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
The Film Seeks to Challenge Global Documentary Records
The film has yet to open internationally, with a staggered rollout scheduled to begin at the end of November. To challenge the all-time global documentary record, it will need to find similar traction abroad against Fahrenheit 9/11, which holds the top spot with $103 million overseas and $222 million globally. March of the Penguins follows with $49 million overseas and a total of $127 million worldwide.
