Europe Queues Up for Nathan Fielder's Holmes Documentary

Tickets for You Can See Everything began selling out in the U.K. a month before its opening, according to Variety. The documentary, made by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. It runs nearly three hours.

The film opens in Britain on 20 November. A24, the U.S. company that made and released it, is distributing it there itself. Demand was strong enough that the U.K. chains Picturehouse and Cineworld added extra screenings. Variety reported that the film would likely open in around 500 cinemas across Britain.

Across the Channel, the French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport holds the rights. It bought the film from A24 at the Toronto International Film Festival, after the film's surprise premiere at the Telluride festival in the United States. Festival sales like this are how many films find buyers before they reach cinemas, often a year or more ahead of release.

Metropolitan Filmexport set up sneak previews on 1 December in roughly 100 French theatres. Tickets for those screenings sold out within hours. The company plans to open the film in about 150 to 200 French theatres when it arrives on 30 December, then add more screens if demand holds.

Sony has the film in 29 territories, with opening dates running from 19 November to 9 December. Sony is opening it across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden within 48 hours, starting on 19 November. Germany follows on 3 December.

The film has already reached American audiences. The Associated Press reported that it had earned $15 million from 855 screens, in its report dated 18 October. A24 then more than tripled its U.S. screen count in the second weekend, according to Variety.

For a documentary about a business scandal, the European push is unusual in its speed. Most of the continent is still weeks away from seeing the film. Its first audiences there will arrive knowing the story well, and they are buying tickets anyway.