A24 Gives 2026’s Biggest Surprise Hit Additional Theaters After Phenomenal Box-Office Debut
A24 is expanding You Can See Everything to more than 2,600 cinemas after the documentary topped the US box office with a $15 million opening weekend. Its success is notable because no documentary released in fewer than 1,000 cinemas had previously led the domestic chart.
Co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the three-hour film follows former Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes before her imprisonment for fraud. It opened in 855 cinemas, with 2,000 sold-out screenings, and had the second-biggest documentary opening after Fahrenheit 9/11. A24 expects it to take $25 million to $30 million this weekend, potentially challenging Clayface, which is forecast to debut with about $30 million.
In short
- A24 is expanding its documentary to more than 2,600 cinemas.
- The film opened with $15 million in 855 cinemas.
- Its projected weekend takings could challenge Clayface.
Explained simply
A24 is an independent film company that distributes films in the United States and has released documentaries as well as fiction films. A cinema’s box-office takings are the money brought in from ticket sales, and films are often compared by how much they earn over an opening weekend.
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos, a blood-testing company that promised to run many tests using just a small amount of blood. The company’s technology did not work as claimed, and Holmes was convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim co-directed the documentary about her.
Documentaries are non-fiction films about real people or events, and they usually attract smaller cinema audiences than major studio releases. A strong opening can lead distributors to show a film in more cinemas, while box-office charts offer one way to compare audience interest across different kinds of films.