From Fortune · Andrew McGowan · · 1m 40s
Elizabeth Holmes doc breaks documentary box office record
You Can See Everything opens to fifteen million dollars, the second-biggest documentary debut ever, nearly doubling Tom Cruise's Digger.
In brief
You Can See Everything opens to fifteen million dollars, the second-biggest documentary debut ever, nearly doubling Tom Cruise's Digger. You Can See Everything grossed fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend, the second-biggest documentary opening ever behind Fahrenheit nine eleven. Originally reported by…
Fifteen million in opening weekend
You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, grossed an estimated fifteen million dollars at the domestic box office in its opening weekend.
Second-biggest documentary opening ever
The film ranks second only to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit nine eleven, which debuted to twenty three point nine million dollars on eight hundred sixty eight screens in two thousand four.
Limited release, massive per-theater average
A24 released the film in just eight hundred fifty five theaters across the U.S.and Canada, earning an average of about seventeen thousand five hundred forty four dollars per theater.
Outpaced Tom Cruise's Digger
You Can See Everything nearly doubled the opening of Warner Bros.' Digger, the Tom Cruise-led dark comedy from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, which opened to eight million dollars earlier this month.
Digger's troubled theatrical run
Digger was green-lit at a reported one hundred twenty five million dollars, with production costs reportedly climbing to between one hundred sixty million and one hundred eighty million dollars.
Modest budget, massive returns
You Can See Everything carried a combined production and marketing budget reported to be under twenty million dollars, far less than comparable narrative releases it outpaced at the box office.
Oscar buzz and critical acclaim
The film holds a ninety nine percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and a four point eight average on Letterboxd, the highest ever recorded on the platform.
The bottom line
You Can See Everything grossed fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend, the second-biggest documentary opening ever behind Fahrenheit nine eleven.
