You Can See Everything documentary stuns with huge box office debut

You Can See Everything documentary breaks box office records with $15 million debut

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A three-hour documentary on the tech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has raked in a whopping $15 million (£11.25m) on its box office debut, despite a limited run at 855 screens across the US and Canada.

The eagerly anticipated A24 film, titled You Can See Everything, was co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It finds Holmes at her home in 2023 during the month before she began an 11-year prison sentence.

US publication Deadline has described it as "easily the second best opening ever for a documentary at the box office after 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11", Michael Moore's movie about the US's 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Ticket sales at the box office were enough for second place behind Paramount's new video game adaptation, Street Fighter, which opened to $31 million in North America and $51.1 million globally.

You Can See Everything also secured the largest debut for any film playing on under 1,000 screens since 2006's Borat, which scored $26 million.

The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, was made in secret over three years. Fielder spent more than a month with the disgraced Theranos founder and her family, including her two young children and her partner, Billy Evans, in her final days before reporting to federal prison.

The reviews have been extremely positive, with 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 99 on Metacritic. It also won an unprecedented 91% “definite recommend” from audiences, according to PostTrak exit polls.