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A nearly three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes was the No. 1 movie in America over Halloween weekend. That’s a triumph for A24, and a scary harbinger for theaters heading into a thin November that faces competition from an entirely different corner of entertainment.

A24’s You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, took in $11.4 million in its third weekend, narrowly edging DC Studios’ Clayface, according to Monday’s final figures reported by Variety. It had finished second in each of its first two weekends, behind Street Fighter and then Clayface. Its domestic total now stands at $64.7 million.

It is the first documentary outside the concert genre to top the box office since Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004. But its lack of direct competition is telling. No studio opened a wide release, and overall ticket sales came to about $56 million, down more than 40% from the prior weekend and the second-lowest total of the year, according to studio estimates.

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