Tickets for film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes said to be selling out after $15m opening weekend in the US

It is the film everyone seems to be talking about, spawning memes and fuelling feverish online debate about its subject, the disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

Now, a month before Nathan Fielder’s documentary You Can See Everything reaches UK cinemas, tickets for screenings are already selling out after its remarkable $15m (£11.3m) opening weekend in the US.

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The hit Elizabeth Holmes documentary led to increased interest in the award-winning narrative series on Hulu as well as Bad Blood, a 2018 book on the scandal

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Interest in Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud scandal has surged amid buzz for You Can See Everything, the record-breaking documentary on the disgraced former CEO.

Viewership for The Dropout, the 2022 Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes, surged by 186% in September compared with the month prior, according to Variety, after the announcement on 6 September of the previously secret film’s first teaser.

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Here’s why Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s hit doc is a shared-unreality narrative soon to be taught in film schools alongside 'Rebecca,' 'Gaslight' and 'Mulholland Drive.'

The 'You Can See Everything' co-director on how he was persuaded to be on screen.

Now that you’ve witnessed something, let us illuminate some other things.

A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary had audiences pumped, notching 2,000 sellout screenings and becoming the highest-grossing title in two decades for a release under 1,000 theaters.

Along with 'Artificial,' 'Musk' and 'The Social Reckoning,' the storytellers are finally getting back at the engineers.

'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Whalefall' also enter the box office fray this weekend.

'You Can See Everything,' 'Whalefall' and 'Sense and Sensibility' are among the weekend's notable newcomers.