Clayface Opens No. 1 With $24M; Holmes Documentary Earns $19.5M at Box Office

DC Studios' R-rated superhero film 'Clayface' opened at No. 1 with an estimated $24 million weekend, according to studio estimates released Sunday, and $43 million worldwide, according to Deadline. A24's documentary 'You Can See Everything,' about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, pulled in $19.5 million in its first weekend of wide release, which AP called the biggest success story in theaters. Deadline noted the weekend falls in Halloween's 'dead zone' in the United States and said Warner Bros Animation's 'The Cat in the Hat' is expected to return the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. to No. 1 in November.

The New York Times, the main left-leaning source, leads with the documentary, headlining it as giving 'Clayface' a run for its money and saying it surged in its second weekend. That timeline conflicts with AP and the Washington Times, which place the $19.5 million debut in its first weekend of wide release. The Times excerpt omits Clayface's $24 million opening and the $19.5 million total. The Washington Times, the right-leaning source, runs the same headline and text as AP, calling Clayface a modest, R-rated win and framing the documentary as the biggest success story. Both the left and right sources agree the documentary performed strongly and that Clayface took the top spot, but they differ on how to describe Clayface and on the documentary's timeline. Deadline, the alternative source, is distinctly different: it leads with the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger and its back-to-back No. 1 weekends, gives the worldwide figure, and asks whether Disney should be worried.