TL;DR: DC Studios’ R-rated body-horror film Clayface topped the North American box office on the October 23-25, 2026 weekend with an estimated $24 million to $24.5 million, depending on the report. The bigger story was right behind it: A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything grew 25% in its second weekend to $19.5 million, for $45.1 million so far. Laika’s Wildwood opened third, and last week’s winner Street Fighter fell 72%.
Last weekend we covered the Street Fighter box office opening and a record-setting debut for a documentary about Theranos. One week later, the Clayface box office result gave DC a new No. 1, but the documentary nearly stole the weekend again. Here is how the numbers break down, based on studio estimates reported by the Associated Press via NBC News and by Fortune.
Weekend box office top 10 (Oct. 23-25, 2026)
These are estimated Friday-to-Sunday ticket sales at US and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak, as published by the AP:
| Rank | Film | Weekend gross (est.) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clayface | $24 million |
| 2 | You Can See Everything | $19.5 million |
| 3 | Wildwood | $11.8 million |
| 4 | Street Fighter | $8.6 million |
| 5 | Wicker | $5.8 million |
| 6 | Other Mommy | $3.9 million |
| 7 | Sense and Sensibility | $3.4 million |
| 8 | Whalefall | $3.2 million |
| 9 | Verity | $3.1 million |
| 10 | Resident Evil | $3 million |
Estimates differ slightly between outlets. Fortune put Clayface at $24.5 million, Wildwood at $11.6 million and Wicker at $5.7 million. Final figures usually land on Monday and can shift these numbers a little.
Clayface: a modest win on a modest budget
Clayface opened in 3,458 theaters. It stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, a rising movie star who undergoes experimental facial surgery after a mob boss disfigures him. According to the AP, it is the third theatrical release for DC under James Gunn and Peter Safran.
Key numbers reported this weekend:
- Budget: a reported $44 million, far below most comic book films.
- International: $19 million, according to the AP.
- CinemaScore: “A-“, which the AP calls a high grade for a horror release.
- Expectations: Fortune reports the opening landed below the studio’s projection of $25 million to $30 million.
For a typical superhero movie, $24 million would be a flop. For a $44 million R-rated horror film, it is a solid start. The AP notes it offers “some stability, and assured profitability” for DC after Supergirl, which it says grossed $126 million worldwide on a $170 million production budget. Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian called Clayface “a great example of studios taking chances.”
You Can See Everything keeps defying the usual pattern
Second weekends almost always drop. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, You Can See Everything went the other way. A24 expanded it from 855 theaters to 2,655, and its weekend gross rose about 25%, from $15.6 million to $19.5 million.
- Domestic total: $45.1 million after two weekends.
- Budget: a reported $7 million.
- Per-theater average: about $7,345 this weekend, according to Fortune, down from $18,245 in its limited opening.
- Daily split: $6.1 million Friday, $6.9 million Saturday and $6.4 million Sunday, per Fortune.
The AP says the film has been drawing “waves of Gen Z moviegoers” and already ranks among the highest-grossing documentaries ever. Fortune adds that its opening was the second-best ever for a non-concert documentary, behind Fahrenheit 9/11. Awards talk is growing too: if it lands a best picture nomination, it would be the first documentary ever to do so. That is still speculation from awards watchers, not a sure thing.
“A24 invested a reported $7 million in an interesting but complicated idea without a beginning, middle or end, that’s turned into a zeitgeist film about money, dreams, truth and reality,” box office analyst David A. Gross of FranchiseRe told the AP.
Wildwood, Wicker and the rest of the new releases
Wildwood
Laika’s stop-motion fantasy, directed by the studio’s CEO Travis Knight, opened third with $11.8 million from 2,779 locations and an “A” CinemaScore, per the AP. That is a big improvement on Laika’s 2019 film Missing Link, which opened to $5.9 million. But with a reported $100 million budget, the AP says it is still unlikely to turn a profit.
Wicker
The comic fable starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård opened with $5.8 million in 1,471 theaters. Black Bear Pictures acquired it out of Sundance for $2.5 million, according to the AP, which makes this a strong start relative to its cost.
The misses
- Klara and the Sun: Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel made just $725,000 from 880 theaters for Sony Pictures.
- Ali G: Who Iz I?: Amazon MGM chose not to report grosses for Sacha Baron Cohen’s mockumentary, the AP says.
Street Fighter’s steep second-weekend fall
Paramount’s video game adaptation, which won last weekend with about $31 million, dropped 72% to $8.6 million and slipped to fourth. The AP reports the film cost about $80 million and has grossed $46.9 million domestically in two weeks. That leaves the Holmes documentary only about $1.8 million behind it in total domestic gross after the same number of weekends, on a fraction of the budget.
What the weekend says about the market
The overall box office is in good shape. Fortune reports total weekend ticket sales of $94.9 million, up nearly 22% from the same weekend in 2025, and year-to-date sales of $8.4 billion, about 20% ahead of last year’s pace.
Next weekend looks quieter. With Halloween falling on a Saturday, Fortune says few studios are releasing films, which could give both Clayface and You Can See Everything room to hold. Many of these titles will eventually reach streaming; our coverage of the JustWatch TV streaming service explains one way to track where films end up.
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