Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Keeps Its Audience as Clayface Opens
A documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is still filling cinemas a week after it arrived. A24's You Can See Everything took in $6.1 million on Friday, October 23, from 2,600 North American locations, lifting its domestic total to $31.7 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Domestic" means the United States and Canada.
The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opened with $15 million from just 855 theatres. That made it the biggest launch for a release playing in fewer than 1,000 theatres since Borat in 2006, the same trade reported. Its opening was also the second-best ever for a documentary, according to Deadline. Ticket buyers filled more than 2,000 sellout showings that first weekend, WTOP reported.
The film's weekend is now projected to reach at least $18 million, the Hollywood Reporter said. A documentary spreading from a few hundred screens to more than 2,600 in a week is an unusual path, and the numbers show the wider release has so far held up.
Warner Bros. opened the superhero horror film Clayface in more than 3,400 North American theatres. Directed by James Watkins, it stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, who is disfigured, and Naomi Ackie as the scientist who helps him. It is rated R, which means under-17s need an adult to attend, according to Deadline.
Friday's domestic gross was $10.4 million, including Thursday previews, the Hollywood Reporter reported. Deadline's Friday afternoon update put it at $9.5 million including previews. The studio's projection for the weekend was $25 million to $30 million. The trade projected around $24 million, just under that range. The film cost $44 million to make, and it added $4.3 million overseas on Friday.
Audiences gave it an A- CinemaScore, a grade from a poll of ticket buyers on opening night. It holds a 94 audience score and a 76 critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregator, per the same trade report.
Animated family film Wildwood sits behind it. Laika's film, directed by Travis Knight, features the voices of Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Jacob Tremblay. It took $4.2 million on Friday and is expected to finish third for the weekend with $11.2 million. It earned an A CinemaScore and holds a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What happens next will be clearer on Monday, when weekend totals settle. For now, the weekend shows two very different routes to the top of the chart. One is a studio superhero picture in more than 3,400 theatres. The other is a documentary that started small and kept growing.
