You can see everything box office has reached $80 million in North America after four weekends, turning a nearly three-hour documentary into one of the region’s biggest nonfiction hits. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s film is now the second-highest grossing non-music documentary ever in North America, and it is still short of its international run.
Elizabeth Holmes at $80 million
The film collected $8.8 million from 2,473 theaters in its fourth weekend, a 23% drop that kept the run unusually sturdy for a documentary of this length. It opened to $15 million in mid October and has outgrossed Primetime, Clayface, Heart of the Beast and Verity on the domestic chart.
Elizabeth Holmes is the subject at the center of the film, which begins with her preparing for an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors. That setup gives the project a built-in sense of stakes, but the box office has done the harder work: it has turned a widely covered business scandal into a theatrical draw.
March of the Penguins and Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the benchmark at $119 million in North America, with $103 million overseas and $222 million globally. March of the Penguins sits behind it at $77 million domestic, $49 million overseas and $127 million worldwide, which makes the new ranking clear: You Can See Everything has moved past one benchmark and is still well behind the top one.
Paul Dergarabedian of Rentrak said, "It has defied box office gravity week after week and clearly captured the imagination of audiences." That is the right read on the run, and it also explains why the film’s performance looks less like a documentary spike than a sustained theatrical event.
End of November rollout
The film has yet to be released internationally, and its staggered international rollout is scheduled to begin at the end of November. With North America already at $80 million, the domestic ceiling now matters as much as the opening phase did, because the worldwide total still has its next chapter ahead of it.
The bigger question is how much of that total will come after the end of November, when the rollout finally widens beyond North America.
