‘You Can See Everything’ Triumphs With $15M as ‘Street Fighter’ Wins Weekend

Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything far outpaced box office expectations in its impressive opening as Street Fighter ended up victorious over the weekend.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s three-hour documentary You Can See Everything grossed $15 million from 855 North American theaters, averaging an eye-popping $17,544 per screen. This was well beyond initial projections for the A24 release that landed the biggest opening from fewer than 1,000 locations since 2006’s Borat. The film about Theranos founder Holmes’ life before starting her prison sentence had the biggest documentary debut since Michael Moore’s 2004 smash Fahrenheit 9/11, surpassing more recent offerings like this year’s Melania and its $7.1 million launch.

After being made in secret over three years, You Can See Everything has maintained a sense of mystery through its intriguing marketing that followed its surprise premiere at Telluride. The film enjoyed more than 2,000 sellout screenings nationwide this weekend, and videos on social media showed lines snaking through cinemas. The audience skewed young, with 70 percent under age 35 for a crowd that was 55 percent male. It will add to its theater count next weekend and continues a hot year for A24, following such previous 2026 successes as Backrooms, The Drama and The Invite.

The film’s Oscar buzz is likely to increase as You Can See Everything boasts sterling word of mouth. It holds a 99 percent critics approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 98 from audiences, while standing as the highest-rated Letterboxd title ever at 4.8. THR critic Angie Han praised it as “smart, funny and full of surprises.”

In total, the weekend’s domestic box office sum stands at an estimated $101.6 million, according to Rentrak, placing it 45 percent above the equivalent 2025 weekend that saw Black Phone 2 open at No. 1 with $27.3 million. This year has reached roughly $8.2 billion domestically, putting it well ahead of last year’s $6.8 billion to this point but behind the pre-pandemic level for 2019, which had hit $8.9 billion by now.

Landing on the lighter side of Paramount Pictures’ projected sum, Street Fighter opened with $31 million from 3,575 North American theaters. Marking the first release in Paramount’s distribution deal with Legendary, the studio had been expecting a debut in the mid-$30 millions for director Kitao Sakurai’s feature adaptation of the Capcom video game. It added $20.1 million from 65 international markets. Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji and Callina Liang star in the $82 million-budgeted movie focusing on a combat tournament.

Street Fighter earned a B- CinemaScore from audiences, same as the 1994 movie of the same name that kicked off the franchise with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead. The new film has struggled to win over critics, holding a 41 percent approval from Rotten Tomatoes reviewers (which is an improvement on the 1994 film’s 20 critics score), along with an audience score of 79. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Frank Scheck called Street Fighter a “jumbled tonal mess” and “only sporadically entertaining.”

Universal Pictures’ Other Mommy heads for third place with around $8.3 million, marking a decline of about 70 percent after earning a D+ CinemaScore in last weekend’s debut. Jessica Chastain stars as a sinister spirit appearing in a girl’s closet in Rob Savage’s horror offering that heads to an estimated domestic sum of $44.8 million after opening at No. 1 a week ago.

20th Century Studios’ Whalefall struggled to make a splash and is expected to reel in $8 million as it opened in 3,065 North American theaters. This is below the low double-digits that the studio was projecting for director Brian Duffield’s survival thriller starring Austin Abrams as a scuba diver swallowed by a sperm whale. Earning a B CinemaScore, Whalefall carries a $60 million budget, meaning that the feature adaptation of Daniel Kraus’ 2023 novel is likely to have trouble turning a profit. It added $9.5 million from 51 international markets.

Whalefall holds a 71 percent critics approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 81 score from audiences. THR chief film critic David Rooney wrote in his review that the movie is “just not batshit crazy enough to be much fun.”

Coming in just under that on the chart is Focus Features’ Sense and Sensibility, which grossed an estimated opening of $7.2 million from 2,545 North American theaters. Earning an A- CinemaScore, director Georgia Oakley’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s esteemed novel stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles in the story of the Dashwood sisters navigating life after their father’s death.

Its crowd was largely female at 84 percent, with 58 percent of the audience between the ages of 18 and 34. Carrying a budget in the mid-$20 millions, Sense and Sensibility holds a 76 percent approval from Rotten Tomatoes critics and a 90 score from audiences. Rooney noted that the film “seldom steps out from the long shadow of Ang Lee’s enchanting 1995 retelling.”

Additionally, Netflix released buzzy Oscar contender La Bola Negra in four theaters, with this title marking the first time ever that the streamer has publicly released box office returns. The film’s $69,375 per-screen average becomes the second-highest ever for a non-English language release, behind only 2019’s Parasite. Starring Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau, directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvowith’s movie explores queer identity over three timelines, with critic Richard Lawson’s THR review praising it as “vivid and transporting.”

Likely to land just outside the top 10 is Ken Russell’s The Devils, with Warner Bros. Clockwork rereleasing the controversial 1971 cult classic to the tune of $1.6 million from 350 domestic locations. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star in the story of a charming priest accused of witchcraft in 17th-century France.

After debuting on four screens last weekend, Bleecker Street expanded Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary Musk to 472 domestic locations, as it collected $306,702 for a $650 per-screen average. THR reported over the weekend that TikTok had banned the film’s advertising account.

The options heading to theaters next weekend include Clayface, Wildwood, Klara and the Sun, Ali G: Who Iz I? and Wicker.

This story was first published on Oct. 17 at 8:55 a.m.