You Can See Everything Edges Past Clayface at Halloween Box Office
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary took first place in its third weekend, beating DC's Clayface by about $200,000 on Sunday's estimates.
Documentaries rarely top the North American box office, but Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's film about Elizabeth Holmes has managed it in its third week on release.
You Can See Everything took first place over the Halloween weekend, edging past DC Studios' Clayface by the narrowest of margins on Sunday's studio estimates.
A Close Race for the Number One Spot
According to those estimates, You Can See Everything earned $10.6 million from 2,655 cinemas, with Clayface close behind on $10.4 million.
The gap between the two was just over $200,000, which is small enough that Monday's final figures will be watched closely by both studios.
For now, it is the first weekend the documentary has finished at No. 1. The result caps a remarkable run for a film made on a reported budget of around $7 million. A week earlier it grew its takings by a quarter to $19.5 million after expanding from 855 cinemas to more than 2,600, and its North American total now stands at $63.9 million.
After that second weekend, Rotten Tomatoes pointed out that, leaving aside concert films and long-running IMAX releases, only Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins had done better among documentaries.
Clayface Faces a Difficult Second Weekend
Clayface has had a tougher time of it. The Warner Bros. release, which stars Tom Rhys Harries as the shape-shifting Batman villain, opened at No. 1 with $24 million a week ago but fell by 57 per cent in its second weekend.
Its domestic total of $44.1 million has now roughly matched its reported $44 million production budget, although that comparison leaves out marketing costs and the film's takings overseas.
With Halloween falling on the Saturday, it was a sleepy weekend at North American cinemas overall, which left the two films fighting over a smaller pot than usual. If you have been following Clayface since it arrived, our round-up of what critics made of DC's body horror is a useful companion to these numbers.
Watch the trailer here:
What Happens Next at the Box Office
Attention now turns to Monday's confirmed figures, which will settle whether a documentary about the Theranos founder really did beat a superhero villain to the top spot.
Whatever they show, You Can See Everything has become one of the surprise cinema stories of the autumn, and with both films still playing widely, next weekend's chart will show which of them has the stronger legs.
Images: Warner Bros.
