Elizabeth Holmes film You Can See Everything scores $15m documentary hit

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything grossed $15 million from 855 North American theatres in its opening weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, averaged $17,544 per screen.

The opening was the biggest nonmusic documentary debut in two decades, since Fahrenheit 9/11 made nearly $24 million from 868 theatres, Hindustan Times reported. It was the biggest opening for a film playing on under 1,000 screens since Borat opened to $26.5 million in 2006. TechCrunch described it as the second-biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film, and Business Insider said it was the best opening weekend for a documentary this year.

Reviews have been extremely positive: Hindustan Times reported 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 99 on Metacritic, while The Hollywood Reporter said it scored 99% with critics and 98 with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes and stood as the highest-rated Letterboxd title ever at 4.8. PostTrak exit polls gave it an unprecedented 91% “definite recommend” from audiences.

The audience skewed young, with 70% under age 35 and a crowd that was 55% male, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film was made in secret over three years. Fielder spent over a month with Holmes and her family, including two young children and partner Billy Evans, in her final days before reporting to federal prison.

The film reportedly cost under $7 million to make and less than $10 million to market, according to Hindustan Times. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison after journalist John Carreyrou published an investigative report in The Wall Street Journal. Theranos was at one point valued at $9 billion.

The film first appeared at a secretive screening at the Telluride Film Festival last month, TechCrunch reported. A TechCrunch writer said finding a ticket in Manhattan was difficult; only one screening had seats available that were not in the front row.

The weekend’s total domestic box office was an estimated $101.6 million, 45% above the equivalent 2025 weekend, according to Rentrak. A24 will add to the film’s theatre count next weekend. Paul Dergarabedian of Rentrak said Fielder is a huge draw with a huge social-media following, and Holmes is “a character that you couldn’t even make up.”

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A24 will add to the film’s theatre count next weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Business Insider’s Henry Chandonnet, who had seen the film twice, called it “one of the most shocking, revelatory, and oddly funny films” he had ever witnessed.