With a budget of only $7 million, A24’s new documentary You Can See Everything has officially become the second highest-grossing non-music documentary of all time in North America. Earning over $8 million this weekend alone, the film has now made over $80 million since its theatrical release on Oct. 16.
Following Theranos’ notorious founder, Elizabeth Holmes, the documentary chronicles her 34 days before going to prison. By inviting Nathan Fielder and his crew into her home, the film offers an intimate look at Holmes’ private life alongside her partner, Billy Evans.
According to Variety, the documentary is primed to surpass $100 million domestically. Although it has yet to be released internationally, it’s slated to roll out to other countries on a staggered schedule by the end of November. Variety speculates that it will resonate with foreign audiences, with the potential to topple worldwide box office records.
“You Can See Everything has really broken the rules of how a documentary can perform at the box office,” Rentrak’s head of marketplace trends, Paul Dergarabedian, said to Variety. “It has defied box office gravity week after week and clearly captured the imagination of audiences.”
The box office results not only mark a milestone for co-directors Lance Oppenheim and Fielder, but also for A24. You Can See Everything has already surpassed 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once ($77 million) and this year’s Primetime, which was also directed by Oppenheim and garnered $46 million.
“What felt new to us in some ways was embracing the oldest tenets of documentary filmmaking — like vérité film,” Oppenheim said of You Can See Everything during a Q&A at SCAD Savannah Film Festival. “It’s amazing seeing the way people are talking about the movie, saying it’s this new formal thing, but I’m like, ‘Oh no, this is actually the oldest. We’re channeling all of the different ways that documentaries have been made.’ Ultimately, we’re doing that because we’re dealing with a real-life human optical illusion. That’s who she is.”
Watch the trailer for You Can See Everything below.
This story was originally published by Parade on Nov 9, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
