A24’s three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary leads a quiet Halloween weekend with $10.6 million in its third frame, just ahead of DC’s body-horror hit.
A three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes is on track to be the No. 1 movie in America. A24‘s You Can See Everything grossed an estimated $10.6 million in its third weekend, according to Sunday estimates, edging out Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ Clayface on one of the quietest weekends of the year.
The Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film, which has been climbing since its record-setting debut, fell only about 43 percent from 3,243 locations and now stands at $63.8 million domestically. That puts it within striking distance of Michael Jackson’s This Is It, which finished its domestic run at $72.1 million, with Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and its $119.2 million still the record for a documentary in North America. A film that started as an Oscar-buzzed curiosity is now a genuine commercial phenomenon, and it is doing it without a single studio tentpole to lean on.
The margin is razor thin. Clayface earned an estimated $10.4 million in its second weekend, a steeper 56 percent drop from 3,478 theaters, for a domestic total of $44.1 million. The R-rated body-horror film from director James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie, cost a reported $44 million, so it has already earned back its production budget in North America alone. That is a far better position than this summer’s Supergirl, and our Clayface review argued it is the most confident film DC has made in years. Monday actuals will decide which film takes the crown.
Studios largely stayed away from the frame because Halloween fell on a Saturday for the first time since the pandemic, the day that usually carries a weekend. The result was an overall domestic take of around $55.6 million, down 42 percent from last weekend, per Rentrak, though still about 4 percent ahead of the same frame in 2025. The year as a whole is running roughly 20 percent ahead of last year at $8.46 billion.
Laika‘s Wildwood placed third with about $7.5 million in its second weekend, a gentle 38 percent decline, for $25.8 million domestically. Travis Knight’s stop-motion adventure, voiced by Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Jacob Tremblay, carries a 99 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and real awards momentum, but with a reported $100 million budget it needs a long run through the holidays.
Black Bear’s Wicker posted the best hold in the top five, slipping only 28 percent to $4.1 million for a $13.2 million total. The romantic fantasy stars Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard. Paramount and Legendary’s Street Fighter rounded out the top five with $3.2 million, bringing its domestic total to $53 million and its global haul to $91.9 million against an $82 million budget.
Further down the chart, Sony’s Resident Evil crossed $400 million worldwide in its seventh weekend, adding about $2.5 million domestically for $157.3 million. Sony Pictures Classics’ The Only Living Pickpocket in New York expanded from six screens to 1,112 and earned an estimated $1.9 million, likely ninth place, for a $2.1 million cume. John Turturro stars for writer-director Noah Segan.
The lull will not last. The Cat in the Hat, Godzilla Minus Zero and Wild Horse Nine open next weekend, and the holiday stretch includes The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three. “A quieter Halloween weekend can coexist with an exceptionally strong year for the genre,” Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian told The Hollywood Reporter.
