You Can See Everything Mania Lifts The Dropout 186% — SkimNews
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- The Dropout viewership surged 186% in September versus August per Variety, then jumped another 92% week-over-week in the week of 12 October ahead of the documentary's 16 October premiere.
- Bad Blood, John Carreyrou's 2018 exposé of Theranos, returned to the New York Times bestseller list amid the renewed interest.
- You Can See Everything opened to $15 million on 855 screens — the best documentary debut weekend in over two decades and the best sub-1,000-screen opening since Borat (2006).
- The A24 documentary, filmed largely in secret in 2023, carries a 97 Metacritic score; the Guardian's five-star review called it "a stupefying and gloriously destabilizing hall of psychological mirrors."
- Amanda Seyfried will be campaigned for best supporting actress per Variety, and A24 is also submitting the film in cinematography, score, director, costume design, production design, and makeup and hairstyling.
- The film will expand to at least 2,600 screens domestically its second weekend; Australian premiere 12 November, UK premiere 20 November.
Why it matters: The Theranos saga is crossing every format at once: a 2022 Hulu series up 186%, a 2018 book back on the NYT bestseller list, and a documentary posting the best sub-1,000-screen opening in nearly 20 years. A24's multi-category Oscar push — including Seyfried for supporting actress — puts the film in position to potentially be the first documentary nominated for best picture.
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