The Rest is Entertainment<\/a> \u2013 with the pair highlighting Amazon\u2019s recent partnership with OpenAI that was announced back in February. Amazon contributed almost half of OpenAI\u2019s record-breaking $110bn funding round that month by investing $50bn in the company. <\/p>\nSpeaking about the film and how it is yet to be picked up by another distributor, Osman said: \u201cIt\u2019s interesting who is passing on it because a lot of people have passed on it. If you believe the trade papers, A24 passed on it. Netflix have passed on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo whatever Amazon is worried about showing Sam Altman in that light or Elon Musk in that light, other people seem to be as well because people are saying it\u2019s not a bad movie, but almost everybody is passing on it. And that\u2019s almost more depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later added on the podcast, released on Tuesday (23 June): \u201cWe are 100 per cent definitely in an era where American popular culture is under the yoke of about five people, all of whom are billionaires and all of whom have quite thin skins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, co-presenter and journalist Hyde said that she knows writers whose projects about tech barons that are yet to see the light of day. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the election of [US President Donald] Trump in 2024, a lot of these big companies called those people who had those projects and said, \u2018Don’t worry, we’re still going to carry on with them, OK?\u2019 I haven\u2019t seen any of those projects come out,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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Richard Osman spoke out about the film on \u2018The Rest is Entertainment\u2019 (Goalhanger Podcasts)<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not even green lit. These are not sort of small spec script writers. These are people with big overall deals who are tackling the big subjects, the big people of the age. People are saying to them, \u2018Have you got anything that isn’t about Elon Musk?\u2019 Have you got something different?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hyde added that she\u2019s worried creators are living through \u201ca period of self-censorship\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a different calculus when people are talking about, \u2018We can\u2019t make this project because of our cloud partnerships.\u2019 This is something we haven\u2019t been thinking about before but you can see it across all sorts of things.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Independent has contacted Amazon for comment. <\/p>\n
Releasing a statement on Friday 19 June about dropping Artificial, Amazon wrote: \u201cWe have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker \u2013 not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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
Artificial was penned by former Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich, while Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Billie Lourd, Chris O\u2019Dowd and Mark Rylance are among those in the wider cast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,34214,184836,733,4308,71525,6491,63355,6494,309,211871,44184,67996,185018,184837,6498,220112,6500,2207,6487,6501,184839,86,56,54,55,83596],"class_list":["post-655217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-arrival","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-central-london","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-film-and-television-screening","tag-film-industry","tag-film-screening","tag-headshot","tag-london-england","tag-looking-at-camera","tag-odeon-leicester-square","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-red-carpet-event","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vertical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Andrew Garfield plays Open AI co-founder Sam Altman in ‘Artificial’ (Getty)<\/p>\n