{"id":657457,"date":"2026-10-26T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657457\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:14:10","slug":"you-can-see-everything-surges-with-19-5m-at-box-office-clayface-takes-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657457\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can See Everything\u2019 surges with $19.5M at box office; \u2018Clayface\u2019 takes No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with \u201cClayface,\u201d landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the biggest success story in theaters remained A24\u2019s Elizabeth Holmes<\/a> documentary \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d<\/a> which pulled in $19.5 million in its first weekend of wide release.<\/p>\n

01:37<\/p>\n

What to expect from Nathan Fielder\u2019s Elizabeth Holmes doc<\/p>\n

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The Nathan Fielder<\/a>, Lance Oppenheim-directed \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d increased from 855 locations to 2,655. In expansion, it continued to blow away expectations. With $45.1 million in two weeks, it already ranks among the highest-grossing documentaries ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d has turned into a sensation partly by drawing waves of Gen Z moviegoers. Its awards season prospects are also growing. If \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d is nominated for best picture at the Oscars, it would be the first documentary nominated for Hollywood\u2019s top prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cA24 invested a reported $7 million in an interesting but complicated idea without a beginning, middle or end, that\u2019s turned into a zeitgeist film about money, dreams, truth and reality,\u201d said David A. Gross, who publishes the box office newsletter FranchiseRe.<\/p>\n

\u2018Clayface\u2019 succeeds on a smaller scale for DC<\/p>\n

In 3,458 theaters, Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cClayface\u201d narrowly edged the A24 release for first place. That\u2019s a solid start for the Gotham City villain tale and the third theatrical release for DC under the stewardship of James Gunn and Peter Safran. A bid to meld body horror with a comic book movie, it stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, a rising movie star who undergoes an experimental facial surgery after a mob boss disfigures him.<\/p>\n

While such an opening would have been a flop for most superhero films, \u201cClayface\u201d was budgeted at only $44 million \u2014 a fraction of the expense of most comic book films. It added $19 million internationally.<\/p>\n

That was enough to offer some stability, and assured profitability, to DC Studios following the disappointment of \u201cSupergirl.\u201d<\/a> Earlier this year, that film grossed just $126 million worldwide on a $170 million production budget.<\/p>\n

Audiences gave \u201cClayface\u201d an \u201cA-\u201d CinemaScore, a high grade for a horror release. Reviews were also largely good. The competition for horror audiences can be fierce in October, but \u201cClayface\u201d may end up the top genre draw of the month.<\/p>\n

\u201cClayface is a great example of studios taking chances, with DC venturing into R-rated horror and body horror, something that\u2019s certainly not your typical comic book movie,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends for Rentrak.<\/p>\n

\"Image:Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen in DC Studios\u2019 \u201cClayface\u201d.Parisa Taghizadeh \/ Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

Last weekend\u2019s top film, the video game adaptation \u201cStreet Fighter,\u201d sank like a stone, dropping 72% with $8.6 million in its second weekend. The Paramount Pictures release, made for about $80 million, has grossed $46.9 million domestically in two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wildwood\u2019 and \u2018Wicker\u2019 make strong starts<\/p>\n

\u201cWildwood,\u201d the latest stop-motion animated film from the Portland, Oregon-based studio Laika, debuted in third place with $11.8 million in 2,779 locations. The film, directed by Laika chief executive Travis Knight, rode excellent reviews and strong audience scores (an \u201cA\u201d CinemaScore) to a notable improvement over the studio\u2019s previous release: 2019\u2019s \u201cThe Missing Link\u201d (a $5.9 million opening).<\/p>\n

But \u201cWildwood\u201d is still unlikely to generate a profit, given that it cost $100 million to make. The PG-13 fantasy follows a teenage girl who enters an enchanted forest to find her abducted baby brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWicker,\u201d<\/a> a comic fable starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, launched with an excellent $5.8 million in 1,471 theaters. Acquired for $2.5 million out of Sundance by Black Bear Pictures, the well-reviewed \u201cWicker\u201d is a quirky love story about a fisherwoman (Colman) who has the local basket maker weave her a husband (Skarsg\u00e5rd).<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s other new releases were either hard to find or little seen.<\/p>\n

Taika Waititi\u2019s critically panned \u201cKlara and the Sun,\u201d adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s novel, made just $725,000 at 880 theaters for Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n

Amazon MGM opted not to even report grosses for Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s poorly received mockumentary \u201cAli G: Who Iz I?\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Cohen took the rare step of conducting numerous interviews as himself, and not in character, \u201cAli G: Who Iz I?\u201d was almost absent on its opening weekend. The film\u2019s theatrical footprint was shrunk considerably as Cohen faced backlash in the U.K. over cultural appropriation and racial caricatures.<\/p>\n

Top 10 movies by domestic box office<\/p>\n

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cClayface,\u201d $24 million.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d $19.5 million.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cWildwood,\u201d $11.8 million.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cStreet Fighter,\u201d $8.6 million.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cWicker,\u201d $5.8 million.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cOther Mommy,\u201d $3.9 million.<\/p>\n

7. \u201cSense and Sensibility,\u201d $3.4 million.<\/p>\n

8. \u201cWhalefall,\u201d $3.2 million.<\/p>\n

9. \u201cVerity,\u201d $3.1 million.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cResident Evil,\u201d $3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with \u201cClayface,\u201d landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-657457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}