‘You Can See Everything’ becomes one of the biggest documentary releases in decades

“You Can See Everything” just saw the biggest box office opening for a documentary in more than 20 years.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s genre-bending film about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes made more than $15 million in ticket sales.

Many weekend screenings in cities like New York and Los Angeles were sold out despite the three-hour running time.

The film’s distributor, A24, called it “one of the largest limited-release openings of the 21st century.”

“You Can See Everything” opened on fewer than 900 screens following a jaw-dropping surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last month.

Fielder and Oppenheim worked on the project in secret for years, filming with Holmes and her partner Billy Evans in the weeks before Holmes went to prison in 2023. Holmes was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud Theranos investors, but she tried to convince the filmmakers of her innocence.

Fielder, who appears on camera interviewing Holmes and Evans, takes the film in unexpected directions, thrilling critics and theatergoers. The film has an extraordinarily high 99% “fresh score” on Rotten Tomatoes and a record-high 4.8 rating on Letterboxd.

The film “has rewritten the rules of documentaries as we know them,” CNN’s David Mack wrote in an opening-day article about why it “absolutely lives up to the hype.”

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Theatergoers clearly wanted to find out for themselves. “You Can See Everything” enjoyed the biggest opening for a film on fewer than 1,000 screens since “Borat” in 2006. It was the biggest non-music documentary since “Fahrenheit 9/11” in 2004.

The other big documentary this year — Amazon MGM’s “Melania” film about the First Lady” — premiered on twice as many screens and made less than half as much money, $7.1 million, in its opening weekend. And “Melania” was considered a box-office success in documentary terms when it was released.

“You Can See Everything” is in a category of its own. Some film critics have predicted it will receive a Best Picture nomination. It opens nationwide next weekend, sure to benefit from all the buzz from its opening weekend.

Overall, “You Can See Everything” finished No. 2 at the weekend box office in North America. Paramount’s video game adaptation of “Street Fighter” topped the box office with an estimated $30 million in ticket sales from 3,575 screens. Paramount is owned by Skydance, which also owns CNN.

《你能看到一切》刚刚创下了20多年来纪录片最高的首映票房纪录。

内森·菲尔德和兰斯·奥本海姆执导的这部关于声名狼藉的 Theranos 创始人伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的跨类型电影，票房收入超过 1500 万美元。

尽管片长三个小时，但在纽约和洛杉矶等城市，许多周末的放映场次都已售罄。

该片的发行商 A24 称其为“21 世纪规模最大的小范围上映首映之一”。

《你能看到一切》在上个月的特柳赖德电影节上以惊人的惊喜首映式亮相后，在不到 900 块银幕上上映。

菲尔德和奥本海姆秘密地进行了多年的项目，在霍姆斯于 2023 年入狱前的几周，他们与霍姆斯和她的伴侣比利·埃文斯一起拍摄。霍姆斯被判犯有电信欺诈罪和串谋欺诈 Theranos 投资者罪，但她试图说服电影制作人相信她是无辜的。

菲尔德在镜头前采访了霍姆斯和埃文斯，他将影片引向了意想不到的方向，令影评人和观众都感到惊喜。该片在烂番茄网站上获得了惊人的99%新鲜度，并在Letterboxd网站上创下了4.8分的最高评分纪录。

CNN 的大卫·麦克在首映日的一篇文章中写道，这部电影“改写了我们所知的纪录片规则”，并解释了为什么它“绝对不负众望”。

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观众显然想亲自一探究竟。《你能看到一切》在不足1000块银幕上映的影片中，首映票房创下自2006年《波拉特》以来的最高纪录。它也是自2004年《华氏911》以来票房最高的非音乐类纪录片。

今年另一部备受瞩目的纪录片——亚马逊和米高梅联合出品的关于第一夫人梅拉尼娅的影片《梅拉尼娅》——首映银幕数量是《第一夫人梅拉尼娅》的两倍，但首周末票房却只有《第一夫人梅拉尼娅》的一半，仅为710万美元。而《梅拉尼娅》在上映之初，就纪录片而言，已被视为票房成功之作。

《你尽收眼底》独树一帜。一些影评人预测它将获得奥斯卡最佳影片提名。该片将于下周末在全美上映，势必会受益于首周末的口碑效应。

总体而言，《你尽收眼底》在北美周末票房榜上排名第二。派拉蒙影业出品的电子游戏改编电影《街头霸王》以约3000万美元的票房成绩荣登榜首，该片在3575块银幕上映。派拉蒙影业隶属于天空之舞传媒集团，后者同时拥有CNN。