How ‘You Can See Everything’ Became a Surprise Box Office Hit (and Likely One of the Biggest Docs of All Time)

By Rebecca Rubin

Rebecca Rubin

Senior Film and Media Reporter

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“You Can See Everything” has remained a must-see at the box office, collecting a remarkable $19.5 million from 2,655 theaters in its second weekend — a notable increase in ticket sales from its sizable opening.

A24‘s buzzy documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has grossed $45.1 million domestically to date and will be wildly profitable for the studio against a lean $7 million budget. With electric word-of-mouth, awards chatter and repeat viewings from audiences who are trying to make sense of what they saw on screen, the movie should remain a big-screen draw through the fall. It’s primed to leave theaters as one of the biggest non-musical documentaries of all time, a true feat for a nearly three-hour film that wasn’t publicized until a month before debuting in cinemas. Right now, “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” is the highest-grossing documentary ever with $267 million in 2009, not adjusted for inflation. Meanwhile Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” is the biggest non-music doc with $222 million in 2004, followed by two nature films, “March of the Penguins” with $127 million in 2005 and “Earth” with $107 million in 2007. “You Can See Everything” needs to become a hit overseas to crack the top five.

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