LOS ANGELES — Paramount's "Street Fighter" opened at No. 1 in North America with an estimated $31 million over the weekend, but the film Hollywood was talking about on Sunday was a nearly three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that took $15 million from just 855 cinemas.

"You Can See Everything," directed by the comedian Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim for A24, roughly doubled pre-release projections of $7 million to $8 million and posted the largest opening for a documentary in more than two decades, according to Variety. The only non-concert documentary to open bigger is Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which took $24 million from 868 theaters in 2004.

The result matters because documentaries almost never do this. David A. Gross, who publishes the FranchiseRe box office newsletter, told Variety that documentaries "rarely receive a wide release" and typically average about $3 million over their first three days. "This is a giant weekend for the genre," he said.

The Fielder film averaged $17,544 per screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and A24 said more than 2,000 individual showings sold out over the weekend. Variety reported it was the biggest debut for any film playing in fewer than 1,000 locations since "Borat" opened to $26 million from 837 theaters in 2006.

The documentary follows Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing company Theranos, in the weeks before she began an 11-year prison sentence in 2023 for defrauding investors. Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, asked the filmmakers to record their life with their two children before she surrendered, The Independent reported.

A24 made the film in secret over three years for about $7 million, according to Variety, and unveiled it as a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September. It holds a 99 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. Fielder is best known for the Comedy Central series "Nathan for You" and the HBO show "The Rehearsal." Oppenheim directed A24's "Primetime."

Exit polling showed about 70 percent of the opening-weekend audience was under 35, Variety reported, with 90 percent of ticket buyers saying they would "definitely recommend" the film and 80 percent calling it "even better than expected." The studio plans to expand it nationwide in the coming weeks.

For comparison, Amazon MGM's "Melania" opened to $7.1 million from 1,778 theaters earlier this year, which was then the biggest start for a non-music documentary in more than a decade, and finished with $16.3 million domestically, according to Variety. Rotten Tomatoes' box office column ranked the Holmes film as A24's fourth-biggest opening ever, behind "Backrooms," "Civil War" and "Primetime."

"Street Fighter," by contrast, won the weekend without much celebration. The Capcom video game adaptation, directed by Kitao Sakurai and starring Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo as rival fighters, earned $31 million from 3,575 theaters in North America and $20.1 million from 65 overseas markets, for a global start of $51.1 million, according to Deadline.

Paramount had hoped for an opening in the mid-$30 millions, The Hollywood Reporter said. The figure also trailed the $38.5 million debut of "Mortal Kombat II," another video game fighting adaptation released earlier this year.

Legendary Entertainment and Capcom financed the $82 million production, with Paramount handling only distribution after the project moved over from Sony, Variety reported. Audiences gave it a B- CinemaScore, and it stands at 42 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Men over 35 made up 45 percent of the audience, Deadline reported, while children under 12 attending with their parents accounted for just 11 percent.

Still, the debut easily beat the franchise's earlier big-screen attempts. The 1994 "Street Fighter," starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, opened to $6.6 million and finished with $33.4 million domestically, while 2009's "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" grossed just $8.7 million in total, according to Rotten Tomatoes' box office figures.

Universal and Blumhouse's horror film "Other Mommy" fell to third with $8.3 million in its second weekend, a drop of 70 percent, for a domestic total of $44.8 million against an $18 million budget, Variety reported.

Two other new wide releases struggled. Disney's "Whalefall," a $60 million survival thriller starring Austin Abrams as a diver swallowed by a sperm whale, opened in fourth with $8 million from 3,065 locations and a B CinemaScore. Focus Features' "Sense and Sensibility," a new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel directed by Georgia Oakley and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles, took $7.2 million from 2,545 screens on a $25 million budget.

Further down the chart, Amazon MGM's "Verity" added $6.2 million for a $66 million domestic total, and Zach Cregger's "Resident Evil" climbed past $148 million in North America, according to Rotten Tomatoes' weekend report.

The arithmetic was hard for studios to ignore. A $7 million documentary with no movie stars, running close to three hours, out-earned a $60 million Disney thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation combined.

Next weekend brings DC's horror entry "Clayface," Taika Waititi's "Klara and the Sun" with Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams for Sony, and Sacha Baron Cohen's "Ali G: Who Iz I?," which Amazon MGM is releasing for one week only, according to Rotten Tomatoes.