A documentary won Halloween weekend. You Can See Everything edged Clayface, the Christmas movie opened to zero percent, and Dexter is back for ten Fridays

The weekend, Sunday estimates

A24's You Can See Everything, $10.6 million in its third weekend on 3,243 screens, for a domestic total of $63.9 million. Clayface, Warner Bros. and DC's R-rated body-horror take on the Batman villain, $10.4 million in its second on 3,478 screens, down 57 percent, for $44.1 million domestic. Saturday's projections had the same order with a slightly wider gap, so nothing flipped overnight, it just got closer. Clayface did another $12.4 million overseas and is at about $83 million worldwide. (Box Office Mojo, AP, Deadline's global report, via Yahoo)

The way they got there is the story. You Can See Everything fell 42 percent from last Friday. Clayface fell 69 percent from its opening Friday, which included previews, and 57 percent for the weekend. Clayface opened to about $24 million last weekend, under the $25 to $30 million it was tracking for, on a budget reported around $40 million, with an A-minus CinemaScore and a 75 percent critics score against 94 from audiences. It's not a flop. It's just a horror movie in its second weekend behaving like one, while a three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes keeps adding screens and holding. A24 has now passed $500 million domestic for the year, its best ever. (Deadline, Rotten Tomatoes)

The rest of the top five: Laika's Wildwood $7.5 million in its second weekend, $25.9 million total; Wicker $4.1 million; Street Fighter $3.2 million in its third week, $53 million total. Below that, the BTS concert film Arirang about $2.8 million, Resident Evil $2.5 million and past $400 million worldwide, Other Mommy, and Sony Classics' The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which expanded to 1,112 screens. The whole weekend comes in around $56 to $62 million depending on who's counting, one of the lowest of 2026, in a year that is still up 17 percent at nearly $8.5 billion. Last year's Halloween weekend, with the holiday on a Friday, did about $57 million.

And the one new wide release. Christmas at the Kringles opened on 1,825 screens, made $370,000 on Friday, and is heading for about $675,000 for the weekend. It has a 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 25 reviews. Yesterday I said it was tracking around $2 million and that early reviews were rough. Both were generous. (The Numbers)

It is the first time You Can See Everything has been number one, which is rare for a film in its third weekend; Screen Rant's list of previous cases is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Mufasa and Inside Out. At $10.6 million it's the lowest-grossing number one on Halloween weekend in over a decade outside of 2020. The last Saturday Halloween, in 2015, The Martian led with $11.7 million in its fifth week. Different business, similar number. One thing it is not, despite what I was sent this morning and what I half-wrote yesterday: the first documentary to win Halloween weekend. Michael Jackson's This Is It did that in 2009 with $23.2 million. A concert film, but a documentary. Call this one the first non-concert documentary to do it and you're on solid ground. (Box Office Mojo, 2009, Screen Rant)

Dexter: Resurrection, season 2

It started Friday on Paramount+, on the Premium plan, with one episode and then weekly Fridays: November 6, 13, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25 and a finale on January 1. Ten episodes, set in New York. Michael C. Hall, Uma Thurman back as Charley, Brian Cox as a retired killer the show calls the New York Ripper, Dan Stevens as the Five Borough Killer, with Jack Alcott, James Remar and Desmond Harrington returning and Bokeem Woodbine new. Decider and Primetimer report the premiere also airs on the Showtime channel Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern and weekly after that; Paramount's own pages don't mention it, so treat the linear airing as reported rather than official. (TheWrap, Paramount+)

Two corrections to my own watchlist from yesterday. I said a "three-year time jump," which I can't source and shouldn't have written. And I said Nocturne on Apple TV runs through Christmas; SlashFilm lists it as six episodes, which would end December 4. I'll take the shorter number until Apple says otherwise.

What I was sent, and what was wrong with it

• Sunday's briefing: Clayface "added another $10.7 million overseas." Deadline's global report says $12.4 million. The worldwide total it gave, $82.96 million, is right, so someone did the subtraction wrong.
• Sunday's briefing: "the first time an investigative documentary has claimed the number one domestic box office crown over Halloween weekend." See above. This Is It, 2009. The word "investigative" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
• Sunday's briefing: Netflix added "40 titles, 31 licensed films and 9 TV series" today. What's on Netflix's November schedule counts 31 on November 1, 24 films and 7 series. (What's on Netflix)
• Saturday's briefing: "Stephen King's The Institute also debuted on streaming today." No. Season 2 premieres Sunday, November 8, on MGM+, eight episodes. Nothing from it debuted October 31. (MGM+)
• Both briefings call You Can See Everything a "docudrama." It's a documentary. Fielder and Lance Oppenheim followed Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans at their home in the weeks before she reported to prison. Nothing is staged, and a $24 million opening against a $40 million budget does not make Clayface "a studio horror hit" either.
• It had Dexter's season as a "New York chapter" with Thurman, Cox and Stevens, which is right, and nothing else about it, no schedule, no episode count, no plan tier.
• Nothing about the only new wide release, the BTS film, Wildwood, or the fact that this is the slowest weekend of the fall. The two-film duel was the whole brief.

What's new to watch this week

• The Gilded Age, season 4, HBO and HBO Max, tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, eight episodes through December 20. (TVLine)
• The One About Matthew Perry, Netflix, three-part documentary, all episodes out.
• Netflix's November 1 batch, 31 titles today. The ones I'd point at: Whiplash, Stand by Me, Bridesmaids, Looper, Fury, Air Force One, The Mummy (1999), Richard Jewell, all four seasons of Rectify, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever for the people who start Christmas on November 1. Then Bass X Machina Tuesday, LeSean Thomas's animated steampunk western with Brian Tyree Henry, six episodes, and Black Doves season 2 Thursday, Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, all six at once. (What's on Netflix, Netflix)
• The Dropout: Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? ABC's Nightline special that aired Friday, on Hulu and Disney+ now. If you saw You Can See Everything this weekend, it's the companion piece.
• Hunting Matthew Nichols on Shudder, Nocturne on Apple TV, Minions & Monsters on Peacock, all from yesterday's list, all still new.
• In theaters Friday, November 6: The Cat in the Hat, Warner's animated one, tracking $30 to $35 million, down from $40 to $50 million a month ago, and Godzilla Minus Zero from GKIDS, which some trackers now have ahead of it. Not Predator, not Now You See Me, both of which opened in November of last year and which the briefing's research apparently remembered.
• November 8: The Institute season 2, MGM+, for real this time.

My Sunday

Nocturne episode two, then The Gilded Age at nine because my house has been waiting for it since spring. Dexter waits until I've caught up on last season, which I'm told is the correct order and which I've been told before about other shows and ignored. If Monday's actuals hand the weekend back to Clayface, I'll add a line here and admit the documentary didn't quite do it. Two hundred thousand dollars is inside the margin of a Sunday estimate.

Verified November 1, 2026, from Box Office Mojo's Sunday estimates, the AP, Deadline's global report, Deadline on last weekend, What's on Netflix, The Numbers, TheWrap's Dexter schedule, MGM+ and Cinema United's release calendar. Box office figures are Sunday studio estimates and will be revised Monday afternoon; Warner Bros. reports Clayface as number one and most trackers report You Can See Everything. Clayface's budget is reported as $40 million by some outlets and $44 million by others. Yesterday's watchlist is here; the two corrections above apply to it.