Billy Evans, heir to the San Diego hotel family behind the Lodge at Torrey Pines, has landed at the center of a documentary that opened to $15 million at the box office.

"You Can See Everything," released by A24 on Friday, Oct. 16, follows convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before she reported to a federal prison in Texas in May 2023. Directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim filmed much of the nearly three-hour documentary inside the couple's rented beachside cottage in Del Mar, where Holmes, Evans and their two young children lived as the family prepared for her imprisonment, SanDiegoVille reported.

Evans, 33, is chief executive of diagnostics startup Haemanthus. He graduated from MIT in 2015 with an economics degree and later worked at LinkedIn and Luminar Technologies before meeting Holmes in 2017, according to Business Insider.

His grandparents, Anne and William D. Evans, founded Evans Hotels in 1953. The family manages the Bahia Resort Hotel in Mission Beach, the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa in Pacific Beach and the Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla.

What Holmes and Evans presented as an exercise in transparency shifted focus squarely onto Evans. Multiple reviewers have described him as the film's central figure. In the documentary, Evans takes a bowl of eggs from Holmes and whisks them himself, tells the crew he carries a firearm at all times and appears fully nude on camera.

The film reveals that Holmes granted Evans power of attorney, giving him legal authority to act on her behalf. Evans acknowledges in the documentary that he operates Holmes's account on X, formerly Twitter. SanDiegoVille reported that Evans said he created roughly 80 percent of the account's content, though a Daily Beast account attributed the 80 percent figure to Holmes's own writing. Evans also says he often posts without consulting Holmes.

Evans developed an unreleased artificial-intelligence avatar of Holmes, according to Wall Street Journal reporting cited in the documentary coverage. Fielder recounted an early meeting in which Evans asked Holmes to leave the room before negotiating a profit-sharing deal with A24, according to the Journal. A title card at the film's end states Evans later withdrew that financial claim.

On the All-In podcast, released Wednesday, Oct. 14, Evans said he had not watched the finished film. He conceded Holmes "looks insane" in the trailer, Variety reported.

"I might think this is the dumbest thing I have ever done," Evans said on the podcast, according to Variety.

He said the couple's goal was to let audiences form their own opinions, describing how friends and family who questioned his relationship changed their minds after meeting Holmes. The documentary holds a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes, and its opening weekend ranks as the second-largest for a non-music documentary in domestic history, behind only Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" in 2004, according to Deadline figures cited by the USA Today Network.

At a post-screening session at the New York Film Festival, Fielder said Evans "started trying to exert a level of control over the process that made it very hard to engage with him," according to The Daily Beast. "Communication broke down, basically," Fielder added.

"You Can See Everything" is rated R and runs 174 minutes. It is playing in theaters nationwide.