Halloween Weekend Just Put Clayface’s Box Office Hopes in Doubt

You Can See Everything claimed its first weekend at No. 1, holding off DC Studios’ Clayface over a Halloween frame that performed better than early models expected. A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary took $3.6 million on Friday from 3,243 theaters and was on course for about $10.6 million through Sunday, according to The Numbers. Clayface earned $3.3 million on Friday and was projected to finish a close second with about $10.4 million. The documentary’s Friday total was down 42% from the prior week, even though it added 588 theaters. If it reached $11 million, its domestic total would rise to about $64.3 million through Sunday. Those numbers could be updated later today, but a $200k difference is a slim margin. That result would make You Can See Everything only the fourth documentary to top the weekend chart, after Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, and Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. Unlike those three, which reached No. 1 in their opening weekends, Fielder’s documentary did so in its third week. Saturday’s Halloween holiday did a bit less damage to the overall marketplace than analysts feared. The ten biggest films reporting managed about $45.9...