Astronauts orbiting Earth will soon get a front-row seat to one of the year's biggest cinematic phenomena. A24 confirmed on Wednesday that NASA requested and received permission to screen the hit documentary You Can See Everything aboard the International Space Station. The studio shared the news via social media, posting a screenshot of correspondence indicating the space agency's private viewing request had been officially cleared.
Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the nearly three-hour feature has dominated the domestic box office since its October release. The film pulled in $15.6 million during its opening weekend, marking the second-largest debut for a non-concert documentary in history. It later climbed to the number one spot at the domestic box office, accumulating roughly $64.7 million through Sunday. The documentary opens by chronicling disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes during the final 34 days before she began serving her federal prison sentence.
Holmes once stood at the pinnacle of Silicon Valley as the visionary behind Theranos, a startup that claimed it could perform diverse blood tests using only a few drops of blood. The company raised over $700 million and reached a $9 billion valuation before a Wall Street Journal investigation exposed the technology as fraudulent. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in 2022 and received an 11-year prison sentence. While her downfall has previously inspired books, podcasts, and television dramatizations, Fielder and Oppenheim's project has sparked widespread parodies, lookalike contests, and now, an out-of-this-world screening.
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