EXCLUSIVE: You Can See Everything, A24‘s documentary about fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her days before going to federal prison, is a hot ticket at Alamo Drafthouse.
So hot that presales for the doc directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder are the highest of any A24 title and any documentary that has played the Sony-owned dine-in exhibition chain.
In addition, the documentary is currently the No. 2 presales title at Alamo behind only Disney/Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, and that doesn’t open until December 18. You Can See Everything debuts limited on October 16.
The three-hour documentary, which Deadline first told you about, made a surprise world premiere at Telluride. Shot in secrecy in early 2023, You Can See Everything follows Holmes in deep conversations with the wisenheimer deadpan Fielder as she and partner Billy Evans plot the second coming of blood-testing corp Theranos. Fielder also has a heyday grilling Evans, the father of Holmes’ children, who as Pete Hammond exclaims in his platinum film review of the pic, “We go along for the ride wondering if maybe she is the sane one, and Billy is the batsh*t crazy one.”
On Tuesday night at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, there was a special screening for You Can See Everything with Obsession director Curry Barker, Lanterns co-creator Damon Lindelof, Waiting for Godot‘s Alex Winter, composer Nathan Johnson, Being Heumann and The Invite producer David Permut, Argo actress Clea DuVall and others in attendance. The post-screening Q&A with Fielder and Oppenheim was moderated by Bill Hader.
You Can See Everything currently is 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes off 20 reviews. Docu filmmaker Oppenheim has his first narrative feature film in theaters, A24’s Primetime starring Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, which has grossed over $35M stateside to date.