Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend — SkimNews
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- You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, opened to a $15m domestic box office on only 855 screens
- The debut marks the biggest documentary opening in North America since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, a 21-year benchmark
- The film runs nearly three hours long, an unusually long runtime for a theatrical documentary
- Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes's fiancé, is positioned as the documentary's antagonist per NYT Arts' coverage angle
- Both the source article and BBC's headline frame the story around the 'stunning' box office debut, treating the numbers as the lede
Why it matters: Pulling $15m on just 855 screens — roughly $17,500 per venue — from a nearly three-hour documentary resets the bar for limited-release doc economics, since no wide-release documentary has opened this large since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 and proves Fielder and Oppenheim converted Holmes's notoriety into genuine theatrical demand rather than streaming curiosity.
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