Box Office: Clayface Snags #1 In U.S. After Heated Battle With 98% RT Doc

Published Oct 25, 2026, 11:21 AM EDT

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Clayface has emerged triumphant from its battle against its arch-nemesis, You Can See Everything.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything came barreling into theaters on October 16, hot off a secret Telluride screening, a viral trailer, and a Certified Fresh 98% Rotten Tomatoes score. It made a surprise debut at No. 2 behind Street Fighter and expanded from 855 theaters to 2,655 during its sophomore weekend, providing unexpected competition for DC's Clayface. Clayface is the third installment in the newly rebranded DC Universe, an R-rated body horror movie following Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) as his promising acting career is met with disaster when his flesh becomes malleable.

Over the course of the weekend, Clayface's projections shrank while You Can See Everything's climbed, making the race for No. 1 neck and neck. However, per The Numbers, as of Sunday morning, Clayface is now expected to earn a 3-day total of $24 million at the domestic box office, allowing it to comfortably debut at No. 1 while You Can See Everything maintains its position at No. 2 with a 3-day total of $19.5 million.

2026's Clayface is set to earn the worst domestic debut of the DCU so far (even lower than the $37.1 million earned by the 2026 box office bomb Supergirl), but its significantly slimmer $44 million budget means that it should still be on track to break even by the end of its run.

You Can See Everything, which has a reported budget of just $7 million, has probably already turned a profit and is set to earn more this weekend than it did during its $15.6 million debut (+25%). This has never happened before for an A24 movie that opened in more than 600 theaters. Below, see the full domestic Top 5 chart for the weekend (Wildwood total per Variety, the rest per The Numbers):

Meanwhile, two other new releases have debuted lower on the domestic Top 5. The bigger of the two is Laika's stop-motion fantasy epic Wildwood, which rode its perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score to a No. 3 debut around the same level as Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings ($12.6 million). This in no way puts it on track to earn back its reported $100 million budget, so it will likely join the roster of critically beloved Laika titles that were commercial disappointments.

The other new release on the chart is the oddball sex comedy Wicker, which made a respectable No. 5 debut in just 1,471 theaters.

With three new releases on the chart, three holdover titles have departed. Last weekend, No. 3 through No. 5, in descending order, were the Blumhouse horror movie Other Mommy, the Austin Abrams survival thriller Whalefall, and the Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility. Other Mommy was knocked to No. 6 and the other two titles slotted in beneath it, though they swapped places. Sensibility's slimmer drop landed it at No. 7 above Whalefall at No. 8.

Both titles are expected to hit cumulative domestic totals just shy of $14 million. This is a much better result for Sense and Sensibility, which reportedly cost $25 million and passed the $25 million milestone worldwide this weekend. Whalefall came with a much sturdier reported budget of $60 million and has barely earned back half of that, which is a disappointment considering the fact that big-budget movies often need to earn back two and a half times their budgets in order to break even.

Clayface and You Can See Everything had a clear path to top the chart because last weekend's No. 1 movie, Street Fighter, crashed and burned with one of Paramount's worst sophomore drops ever (-72%), falling from No. 1 to No. 4. While the studio (which is part of the recently merged corporation Skydance) is only on the hook for distribution costs, the movie's reported budget of $82 million may mean that the only way to get a sequel is if the price for the next installment is slashed.

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  Release Date

  October 23, 2026

  Runtime

  108 Minutes

  Director

  James Watkins

  Writers

  Mike Flanagan, Hossein Amini

  Producers

  James Gunn, Lynn Harris, Matt Reeves, Peter Safran

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    Tom Rhys Harries

    Matt Hagen / Clayface

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    Naomi Ackie

    Dr. Caitlin Bates

  Gotham actor Matt Hagen's rising star is destroyed when a local crime boss leaves him horribly disfigured. Desperate to regain his former life, Matt undergoes an experimental treatment that restores his appearance but transforms his body into malleable clay. Now able to reshape himself into other people, Hagen sets off on an increasingly violent campaign of revenge against the ones he holds responsible for his fate.

  Main Genre

  Horror

  Executive Producer(s)

  Mike Flanagan, Rafi Crohn, Chantal Nong Vo, Michael E. Uslan, Lars P. Winther, Paul Ritchie

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  Release Date

  October 16, 2026

  Runtime

  174 minutes

  Director

  Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim

  Producers

  Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose, Jack Davis, Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim

  Cast

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    Elizabeth Holmes

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    Nathan Fielder

  34 days prior to her imprisonment for fraud, Elizabeth Holmes invites documentarians Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in order to tell her story. This documentary is the product of that strange collaboration, which would become a three-year entanglement with unprecedented access to the infamous Silicon Valley founder.

  Main Genre

  Documentary

  Executive Producer(s)

  Emily Osborne