Halloween Box Office: Elizabeth Holmes Documentary and ‘Clayface’ Locked in Tight Race for No. 1

The Halloween box office turned into a photo finish this weekend. A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything reported an estimated $10.6 million in the U.S. and Canada from Friday, Oct. 30, through Sunday, Nov. 1, just ahead of Warner Bros. and DC’s Clayface at $10.4 million, according to studio estimates compiled by Deadline on Sunday morning.

The gap is only about $200,000, and Deadline reported that some rival studios show Clayface ahead for the three days. Final numbers arrive Monday, so the No. 1 spot could still flip.

Halloween box office results: the top five

You Can See Everything earned its estimate in its third weekend, playing in 3,243 theaters after adding 588 locations. Its take fell 43% from the previous weekend, and its domestic total reached about $63.9 million. The three-hour film, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and featuring Nathan Fielder, follows Holmes in the weeks before she reported to prison. Box Office Mojo lists a running time of 2 hours and 54 minutes and an R rating.

Clayface, the Batman villain spinoff directed by James Watkins, actually won Halloween itself. It took in about $4.2 million on Saturday, compared with about $3.6 million for the documentary, but Sunday estimates favor the documentary, $3.45 million to $2.8 million. Clayface fell 57% in its second weekend at 3,478 theaters and has about $44 million domestically. Overseas, it was No. 1 worldwide for the weekend with $22.8 million and an $83 million running global total, Deadline reported.

Laika’s stop-motion feature Wildwood, released by Fathom, placed third with about $7.5 million, down 39%, for $25.8 million to date. Black Bear’s period comedy Wicker, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, expanded to 2,374 theaters and took fourth with $4.1 million, down only 28%, for a $13.2 million total. Paramount’s Street Fighter rounded out the top five with $3.2 million, down 63%, and has about $53 million after three weekends.

By the numbers: a slow weekend for theaters

All films combined grossed an estimated $62.2 million, down 38% from the previous weekend, according to Deadline. By The Boston Report’s math, that implies last weekend’s total was roughly $100 million. This frame ranks as the third-weakest of 2026, above only Jan. 23-25 at $54.7 million and Feb. 6-8 at $61.9 million.

The calendar was the main problem. Halloween fell on a Saturday, usually the busiest movie night of the week, and parties and trick-or-treating compete with theaters. Deadline noted that the last time Halloween landed on a Saturday outside the pandemic year of 2020 was in 2015, when The Martian led with $11.7 million and all films grossed $74.1 million. Last year, with Halloween on a Friday, the weekend took in $57.3 million. Next year the holiday falls on a Sunday.

The new wide releases did little. Briarcliff Entertainment’s holiday slasher Christmas at the Kringles opened at 1,825 locations to about $675,000, and Deadline noted it still had a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score from 25 reviews. Netflix’s World War II film The Mosquito Bowl, directed by Peter Berg, opened in 349 theaters to about $455,000.

How the Holmes documentary built its run

You Can See Everything opened Oct. 16 in just 855 theaters with $15.6 million, then rose 20% in its second weekend to $18.7 million as it expanded to 2,655 screens, according to Box Office Mojo. A third weekend of $10.6 million means it has now earned more in three weekends than most documentaries earn in their entire runs.

Deadline reported the film has already passed Hubble 3D ($52.5 million), An Inconvenient Truth ($24.1 million) and Bowling for Columbine ($21.5 million) at the domestic box office. Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the highest-grossing documentary outside the nature and concert categories at $119.1 million. By TBR’s math, the Holmes film needs about $55 million more to match it.

If the Sunday estimate holds, The Numbers noted, it would be only the fourth documentary ever to top a weekend chart, after Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Jackson’s This Is It and last year’s Taylor Swift release party film. All three of those did it on their opening weekend, not their third.

What it means for A24 and what’s next

Deadline reported that A24 has crossed $500 million at the domestic box office this year, the studio’s best total ever. Social media memes have helped drive the documentary, and Deadline noted that Holmes and Fielder were popular Halloween costumes this year.

The film has barely started overseas. It is playing only in Turkey for now, with Australia and New Zealand releases set for Nov. 12 and the United Kingdom for Nov. 20.

For earlier weekends, see our report on Clayface’s No. 1 opening and our look at Street Fighter and the documentary’s surprise debut.

Sources

• Deadline: ‘Clayface’ in staring contest with Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder for No. 1 (Nov. 1, 2026)
• Box Office Mojo: You Can See Everything weekend grosses
• The Numbers: Daily domestic box office chart, Oct. 31, 2026
• AP News: Weekend box office report (Nov. 1, 2026)