One of the most unusual screening venues in cinema history is now on the books. You Can See Everything, the documentary telling the story of Elizabeth Holmes, won't premiere for astronauts aboard the International Space Station in a famous movie theater — but in orbit.
The film, which reaches audiences in Turkey on October 30 under the title Her Şey Ortada, will thus hit the screen even before its showings in London, Paris and Sydney. The driving force behind this development is NASA: the agency sent an email to the film's producer, A24, requesting a special screening for astronauts serving aboard the station, and the studio accepted the offer.
How did the request come about?
The studio shared the email from NASA, titled “Special Screening Request,” on social media to announce that it had approved the screening for the astronauts. That officially confirmed that the roughly three-hour documentary will be played aboard the ISS.
What makes this striking is that the deal came together only a few weeks after the film's theatrical debut in the United States. At that point, the documentary was sitting at the top of the US box office.
What is the film about?
Elizabeth Holmes is known as the founder and former CEO of the blood-testing company Theranos. After it emerged that she had defrauded people through the company, filmmakers set out to record her final 34 days before she began serving her prison sentence. That effort turned into a project spanning three years.
The documentary also puts the spotlight on Holmes's unconventional communication with actor Nathan Fielder.
Why are European audiences left behind?
The film opens in the United Kingdom on November 20 and in France on December 30. Thanks to the ISS screening, astronauts will get to see it before audiences in both of those countries.
Movies opening on different dates in different countries is nothing unusual — but this time, space has joined the race. What sounds strange at first may actually signal the start of a very different era for the film world.
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