A 3-Hour Elizabeth Holmes Doc Leads 'Clayface' on Halloween Weekend

A24's 'You Can See Everything' won Friday with $3.56 million and is pacing just ahead of the Warner Bros. and DC horror film.

This Halloween, the costumes of the moment were Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder, Deadline reported. The movie that put them there is winning the weekend, too.

A24's You Can See Everything, the three-hour documentary about the Theranos founder that Fielder co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, was pacing Saturday for about $10.8 million over three days, according to Deadline. Warner Bros. and DC's Clayface sat just behind at $10.4 million. On Friday the doc won outright, taking in $3.56 million against $3.3 million for the Batman villain movie, Variety reported, even though Clayface was playing in more theaters.

The margin is thin. The direction isn't. Deadline noted that horror movies like Clayface usually own Halloween, and this one is in only its second weekend, while the documentary is in its third.

The holds tell it. You Can See Everything added 588 theaters and slipped about 42%. Clayface is off about 57% from its debut, which is actually a little better than the 60% drop Warner Bros. had hoped for, a figure Deadline called the high end for a genre picture. People who see it like it: 68% of exit-polled moviegoers on PostTrak said they'd definitely recommend it. It just has less company in the seats.

By Sunday, Deadline projected, the doc's domestic total would reach about $64 million, against roughly $44 million for Clayface. That's already past Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the Leonardo DiCaprio-narrated Hubble 3D, which topped out at $52.5 million.

It's landing in A24's biggest year yet. The distributor is crossing half a billion dollars at the domestic box office for 2026, its highest total ever, according to Deadline. And it isn't treating the film as a niche title: Variety reported that A24 is submitting it across the Oscar board, best picture and director included, on top of documentary feature.

Those costumes have a hard edge. The film follows Holmes through her final month before reporting to serve 11 years for defrauding investors, Variety reported, after Fielder and Oppenheim spent more than three years quietly making it.

The weekend itself was never going to be big. Halloween fell on a Saturday, which tends to keep people out of theaters, and Deadline put the total for every film in release north of $63 million. That still beat the year's worst frame, the $54.8 million weekend of Jan. 23-25.

The ceiling is far off. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the top-grossing documentary that isn't a nature or concert film, at $119.1 million. Three weekends in, the Holmes movie is on pace to be more than halfway there.

Source: Deadline, retrieved November 1, 2026. Other sources: yahoo.com.