{"id":747425,"date":"2026-06-19T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:41:08","slug":"amazon-ditches-sam-altman-movie-after-signing-50bn-openai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747425\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Ditches Sam Altman Movie After Signing $50bn OpenAI Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one\u2019s even pretending any more. Until today, Amazon\u2019s MGM Studios was due to distribute Luca Guadagnino\u2019s movie about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial. The corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/luca-guadagnino-artificial-amazon-jeff-bezos-1236962694\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, \u201cWe believe that Artificial would be better served if it were released by a different studio.\u201d\u00a0In other news, in February this year <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/amazon-partnership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon formed<\/a> a colossal $50 billion \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d with Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Director Luca Guadagnino, most recently best known for 2024\u2019s Daniel Craig-starring\u00a0Queer and the same year\u2019s Zendaya-led Challengers, is in post-production for the Sam Altman biopic, starring Andrew Garfield as the billionaire AI mogul. The movie, written by fromer SNL\u2018s writer Simon Rich (who is also the creator of the incredible Man Seeking Woman), focuses on the ridiculous time in 2023 when OpenAI fired and rehired Altman in the same few days.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool that Amazon MGM would be behind a movie like that, right? Well, no, of course not, because as one tendril of the behemothic company noticed what another was doing, that\u2019s all come to an end. In a statement given to\u00a0Deadline Amazon said, \u201cWe have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker\u2014not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue. We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Artificial Reasoning <\/p>\n<p>You know how when you have massive respect for someone how that means someone else should work with them instead? Yeah, it\u2019s that ol\u2019 situation. Nowhere in its statement does it mention that Amazon boss Jeffy B just invested an impossibly stupid $50 billion into Altman\u2019s loss-making AI grift, nor how this might have\u00a0possibly played some role in Amazon\u2019s desire not to host a movie potentially criticizing the firm.<\/p>\n<p>The potentially good news is that\u00a0Artificial could actually have some teeth, if Amazon is ditching it and running away like it\u2019s an explosive. Bezos is, of course, fully AI-brained, which can only be even more awful news for Amazon\u2019s already abysmally treated workers. The $50 billion injection into OpenAI, as it continues burning cash on its journey to eventual financial ruin and global financial consequences, can only make things worse for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Garfield, Artificial stars Mark Rylance, Yura Borisov, Jason Schwartzman and Ike Barinholtz. Deadline says it\u2019s now being shopped around to other studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one\u2019s even pretending any more. 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