Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the documentary You Can See Everything, which follows convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, was released in North America on October 16. The James Watkins-directed DC Studios comic-book adaptation Clayface debuted in domestic theatres one week later on October 23, after an international rollout that started on October 21.
Moviegoers gave Clayface 7.6/10 on IMDb, while You Can See Everything earned 9.3/10. The non-fiction entry nearly matched the comic book release, earning $19.5 million in its sophomore frame.
After a $15.6 million debut, the documentary’s domestic total surpassed $45 million after expanding to 2,655 locations and earning $19.5 million With a modest $24 million to $24.5 million opening from an estimated $44 million budget, Clayface topped the weekend charts
You Can See Everything and Clayface: Box office collision in North American theaters
As Variety reported, a contemporary comic-book thriller
As Variety reported, a contemporary comic-book thriller and an expanding investigative feature fought neck and neck at the box office. In week two, ticket sales rose as You Can See Everything expanded its theatre footprint from 855 to 2,655 locations, bringing in $19.5 million. With its body-horror interpretation of Gotham lore, Clayface entered the competition in search of theatrical supremacy and won first place with about $24 million. However, the documentary maintained its pace throughout Friday and Saturday, trailing by just $5 million and giving distributor A24 historic momentum.
Plot of You Can See Everything
According to Variety, a few weeks before Holmes begins her eleven-year prison sentence, filmmakers Fielder and Oppenheim embed Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, at a beach house in California for You Can See Everything. While Evans surreptitiously proposes a replacement device, Holmes shifts the blame for Theranos’s unsuccessful blood tests by citing semantic confusion. Evans negotiates covert documentary profit splits, limits journalistic access, and licenses Holmes’ image for use in artificial intelligence models as she starts her sentence in Texas. To reveal Evans’s deliberate control over Holmes’s public persona and blur the line between manipulation and genuine attachment, Fielder enlists actress Amanda Seyfried to reenact covert confrontations.
What happens in Clayface?
In Clayface, mobster Markos Szabo orders the facial mutilation of rising Hollywood star Matt Hagen, as Deadline states. To salvage his damaged career, Hagen receives experimental nanite therapy from Dr. Caitlyn Corr. When he overdoses on the nanites, he can change his voice and body completely and regenerate cells quickly. Vengeful, Hagen uses deadly transformations to destroy Szabo’s syndicate and kill his traitors. Corr activates a cellular kill switch to attack Hagen, but he escapes.
You Can See Everything’s financial success changed industry expectations about the documentary’s potential for theatrical release. With a total domestic gross of over $45 million, the movie has maintained a 98% critical rating and a 96% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In response, A24 has launched an unprecedented campaign to earn a Best Picture Academy Award nomination, along with possible directing bids for Fielder and Oppenheim, aiming to make it the first non-fiction film to win the Academy’s top prize, as Forbes has noted.
