Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Smashes 14-Year Box Office Record

Published Oct 17, 2026, 11:05 AM EDT

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You Can See Everything is attracting a lot of watchers to theaters.

The new documentary, which was revealed during a secret screening at Telluride in September, was co-directed by Nathan Fielder (The Rehearsal) and Lance Oppenheim (Ren Faire, Primetime). It documents a month the filmmakers spent with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, ahead of Holmes' prison sentence and features Fielder trying to parse the reality of what the couple has been telling them. At the time of writing, glowing You Can See Everything reviews have earned the documentary a Certified Fresh 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics with a matching 99% from verified audience members.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, You Can See Everything is projected to earn a 3-day total between $12 and $14 million at the domestic box office by the end of its opening weekend. This sees the movie handily besting the record-breaking opening weekend of the 2026 Melania Trump documentary Melania ($7.2 million) to become the highest-grossing opening weekend for a non-concert documentary since the 2004 Michael Moore smash Fahrenheit 9/11 ($23.9 million), breaking the record previously set by 2012's Chimpanzee ($10.7 million).

If these numbers hold, 2026's You Can See Everything will also be set to join the chart of the Top 10 domestic opening weekends in history for any sort of documentary. At the time of writing, per Box Office Mojo, the only movies ahead of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary other than Fahrenheit 9/11 are a slew of concert documentaries. Below, see the current Top 10 debuts (not adjusted for inflation) before they are officially joined by the new movie:

Rank	Title	Domestic Debut
#1	Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023)	$93.2 million
#2	Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)	$31.1 million
#3	Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)	$29.5 million
#4	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)	$23.9 million
#5	This Is It (2009)	$23.2 million
#6	One Direction: This Is Us (2013)	$15.8 million
#7	Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)	$12.5 million
#8	Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)	$11.8 million
#9	The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)	$11 million
#10	Chimpanzee (2012)	$10.7 million

As this chart shows, it is more or less unprecedented for a non-concert documentary to come out of the gate with such strong box office receipts, so it remains to be seen how high the movie can climb worldwide by the end of its run. Additionally, the worldwide multipliers of the three most notable non-concert documentary movies are widely varying, with Melania ($16.7 million worldwide) having a multiplier of 2.3, Chimpanzee ($34.8 million) having 3.2, and Fahrenheit 9/11 ($222.4 million) having a whopping 9.3.

While You Can See Everything's reviews are even stronger than the Michael Moore movie (which has 82% from critics and 70% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes), presuming the Elizabeth Holmes movie behaves more like a normal documentary and lands toward the lower end of that range, it could still potentially be set to earn roughly $36 million by the end of its run.

$36 million would be more than enough for You Can See Everything. The documentary, which was produced by A24, To Be Formed, and Blow Out Productions, reportedly only cost $7 million to make. That most likely places its estimated break-even point no higher than $17.5 million, which is less than half of what the movie can reasonably be expected to earn worldwide. This will see it turning a solid profit in theaters unlike its fellow 2026 record-breaker, Melania, which reportedly cost $40 million.

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