Earlier this month, a Tom Cruise film with a reported budget of at least $125 million opened to about $8 million. This past weekend, a 2-hour-54-minute documentary about Elizabeth Holmes opened to an estimated $15 million.
You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and released by A24, took second place at the October 16–18 box office, behind only Street Fighter. It did it from 855 theaters. Digger had opened in roughly 3,300.
The gap between those two openings is a better lesson in demand than most "most anticipated" lists, so it is worth looking at carefully.
What Happened This Weekend
According to Fortune's report on the Sunday estimates:
- You Can See Everything grossed an estimated $15 million from 855 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, an average of about $17,544 per theater.
- Street Fighter won the weekend with $31 million from 3,575 theaters, about $8,671 per theater.
- A24 said more than 2,000 screenings of the documentary sold out over the weekend.
Expectations were lower. TheWrap's preview, published October 14, estimated an opening of at least $8 million from roughly 800 theaters. The film opened to nearly double that.
It also sets a record or two. According to TheWrap's report on the results, it is the biggest documentary opening since 2013 when concert films are counted (One Direction: This Is Us opened to $15.8 million that year), and the biggest for a non-music documentary since Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which made $23.9 million in 2004. These are estimates and may change when the final figures arrive.
The film itself has an unusual backstory. It was kept secret until a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 6, according to Fortune. Critics have loved it: Rotten Tomatoes shows 98% from 135 reviews and a 98% audience score.
Why Per-Theater Numbers Matter
Total gross rewards the number of screens a studio can book. Average per theater shows how many people were actually trying to get in. Here is the same weekend through that lens:
- You Can See Everything: about $17,544 per theater (855 theaters)
- Street Fighter: about $8,671 per theater (3,575 theaters)
- Digger (opening weekend, Oct 2–4): roughly $2,400 per theater, our own estimate from about $8 million across about 3,300 theaters
The documentary's per-theater average was roughly twice Street Fighter's and about seven times Digger's. A narrow release can make seats scarce, and sold-out screenings can feed buzz of their own. That is a plausible part of the story, though no source we checked confirms it as the cause.
Digger did the opposite. It opened wide, on thousands of screens, with a large budget, a major star and a lot of advance attention. We covered that gap in our analysis of its popularity data: attention on TMDb rose more than tenfold in two weeks, and the film still opened to about $8 million.
What Our Data Can and Can't Say
Incoming records a daily TMDb popularity score for every title. About ten days before its release, Street Fighter sat at 27.0 in our data. Eleven days before its release, Digger was at 21.5. One film then opened to $31 million and the other to $8 million. The scores before release did not tell them apart.
For You Can See Everything there is no pre-release history at all. A24 revealed the film at the Telluride Film Festival on September 6, and Incoming did not add it until release day, October 16. The documentary that surprised the box office is the one our data never saw coming.
That is two or three data points, not a rule. But it fits the point of the Digger piece: pre-release attention is a measure of how much people are talking, not of how many will buy a ticket.
Editorial Take: The strongest demand signal of the month was not a popularity score or a trailer view count. It was a line at the box office for a film almost nobody knew existed until September. When a release is rare, hard to get and loved by the people who see it, that does more than any campaign. For a site that tracks anticipation, the lesson is humbling and useful: we measure what people say they are curious about, and the best surprise of the fall was a film nobody could be curious about yet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is You Can See Everything? A documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the founder convicted in the Theranos case, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim and distributed by A24. It runs 2 hours 54 minutes and opened in theaters on October 16, 2026.
How much did You Can See Everything make? An estimated $15 million over its opening weekend from 855 theaters, an average of about $17,544 per theater. Those are Sunday estimates and can be revised.
Is it the biggest documentary opening ever? No. Fahrenheit 9/11 opened to $23.9 million in 2004, and One Direction: This Is Us opened to $15.8 million in 2013, according to TheWrap. This is the biggest documentary opening since 2013 counting concert films, and the biggest non-music documentary opening since Fahrenheit 9/11.
Why did it do better than expected? TheWrap's pre-weekend estimate was at least $8 million. A narrow release, more than 2,000 sold-out screenings and strong reviews (98% on Rotten Tomatoes) are the main factors reported. There is no single confirmed cause.
How does it compare to Digger? Digger opened to about $8 million domestically on October 2. The documentary opened to nearly double that from about a quarter as many theaters.
Where can I watch it? It is in theaters now in a limited release. A streaming date has not been announced in the sources we checked.
Box office figures are Sunday estimates from the sources linked above. Popularity figures are Incoming's daily snapshots of TMDb's score, through October 6, 2026. Tracking what arrives next across movies, TV, games, music and books at incoming.to.