{"id":507910,"date":"2026-06-19T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:47:08","slug":"luca-guadagninos-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-by-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507910\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s Sam Altman Movie &#8216;Artificial&#8217; Dropped by Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/luca-guadagnino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luca-guadagnino\" data-tag=\"luca-guadagnino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2018s nearly finished <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sam-altman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-altman\" data-tag=\"sam-altman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a> movie, \u201cArtificial,\u201d has been dropped by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/amazon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon\" data-tag=\"amazon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> MGM Studios, Variety has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/openai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_openai\" data-tag=\"openai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> CEO, will be shopped to other studios. The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February to expand OpenAI\u2019s use of Amazon Web Services and develop custom AI models, which included a $50 billion investment on Amazon\u2019s part. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker \u2014 not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,\u201d a spokesperson for Amazon said. \u201cWe believe that \u2018Artificial\u2019 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 class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA representative for Guadagnino did not immediately respond to Variety\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBesides Garfield, \u201cArtificial\u201d has a hugely starry cast including Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, Angus Imrie, Chris O\u2019Dowd and Mark Rylance also feature. The film was written by \u201cSNL\u201d alum Simon Rich and focuses on the brief period Altman was fired from his position at OpenAI in 2023 and then rehired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety understands that, prior to being dropped by Amazon, \u201cArtificial\u201d already had several test screenings, which went down very positively, and screened for other studios on Thursday. According to an insider who has seen the movie, the characters of Altman and Musk are the least sympathetic and the ones audiences would \u201clike the least.\u201d It\u2019s also understood that Amazon had seen all the early iterations of the script, before Guadagnino boarded the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s known that Altman and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have a relationship and Altman even attended Bezos\u2019 wedding in Italy last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPuck was the first to report the news of Amazon dropping the film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino\u2018s nearly finished Sam Altman movie, \u201cArtificial,\u201d has been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3468,321,93,61,60,28447,1682,7689],"class_list":["post-507910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amazon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}