Variety reports that the nearly three-hour Theranos documentary has earned about $80 million in North America after four weekends, passing 'March of the Penguins' and trailing only 'Fahrenheit 9/11'.
'You Can See Everything', A24's documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has grossed about $80 million in North America after just four weekends in theaters, Variety reports. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, collected an estimated $8.8 million from 2,473 theaters over the latest weekend, a drop of only 23% from the previous one. The Hollywood Reporter's weekend report put its domestic total at $79.7 million. According to Variety, that makes it the second-highest-grossing non-music documentary ever in North America, ahead of 2005's 'March of the Penguins' at $77 million and behind Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' at $119 million.
The run is unusual for a nearly three-hour documentary. The film had a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and opened to $15 million in mid-October, with very little advance notice: Variety says almost nobody knew about the project until about a month before release. It follows Holmes over three years, beginning as she prepares to serve an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors. It has not yet opened abroad; an international rollout is due to start at the end of November, and Variety notes it will need to resonate overseas to challenge the genre's worldwide records, held by 'Fahrenheit 9/11' at $222 million globally and 'March of the Penguins' at $127 million.
Variety adds that the film has outgrossed several fall releases backed by far larger marketing campaigns, including 'Verity' at $75 million, 'Heart of the Beast' at $67 million, 'Clayface' at $56 million and 'Primetime' at $46 million. It is also A24's third-biggest domestic release, behind this summer's 'Backrooms' at $197 million and 2025's 'Marty Supreme' at $96 million, and ahead of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' at $77 million; with a reported $7 million production budget, it is highly profitable. Rentrak's Paul Dergarabedian said the film has 'broken the rules of how a documentary can perform at the box office.' Variety suggests it is on course to pass $100 million domestically, a projection rather than a result, and the weekend figures are estimates that may change when final numbers are released.
