Amazon MGM drops Luca Guadagnino Sam Altman film 'Artificial'

techJun 19, 202639357

Amazon MGM has dropped Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished Sam Altman biopic Artificial, which stars Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro and Cooper Hoffman. The film dramatizes the chaotic week in 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired and rehired, and Amazon says Artificial "will be better served if it were released by a different studio" and is working to find a new home. The decision, announced as Amazon deepens its business ties with OpenAI, matters because a high-profile director and lead could shape public perception of OpenAI’s leadership and highlights how corporate partnerships can affect which films reach audiences.

DiscussingFilm

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Amazon MGM is no longer releasing Luca Guadagnino's ‘ARTIFICIAL’, a biopic about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The studio says the film will be better served at a different studio. It is important to note OpenAI inked a major partnership with Amazon recently. (Source: puck.news/amazon-is-du...)

27445d ago

Colin Horton14

From the studio that brought you a documentary on Melania Trump ....

Anthony Pittore11

There must be some DIRT. Also, loving that Andrew went from Eduardo Severin to Sam Altman. He's going to be his own multiverse of Tech Bros.

Kachebele Phiri8

Who the hell wanted a biopic about Sam Altman anyway?

Tia4

i mean, influence from partnership aside, they're not wrong that another studio would be better to have it, for impartiality sake

Jake2

Money will murder every single one of us

Tim W2

I’m actually surprised they didn’t just bury it.

The Verge

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The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

2745d ago

mike jolkovski5

We are going to have to decide whether “dropped” means “published”, “released”, etc or “discontinued”. This headline ambiguity is becoming burdensome.

Mats Bengtsson2

Too many skeletons in the closet?

Matt Belloni

@mattbelloni.bsky.social

News: Amazon, fresh off a massive partnership with OpenAI, is dumping its finished Sam Altman movie ARTIFICIAL from Luca Guadagnino. Yeah.... Details and full statement from Amazon ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/amazon-is-du...

1945d ago

Every Film Now

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Luca Guadagnino’s ‘ARTIFICIAL’ has been dropped by Amazon/MGM and is now seeking a new distributor. The nearly completed film centers on Sam Altman and OpenAI and stars Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro and Cooper Hoffman. #Artificial #LucaGuadagnino #AndrewGarfield

445d ago

Ian Moody

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Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership. The web giant announced that Artificial, a biopic about the controversial tech executive, ‘will be better served if it were released by a different studio’. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

345d ago

Lynn Becker

@cmgiulini.bsky.social

Your Brave New Media Consolidation World: After investing $50 billion in OpenAI, Amazon's MGM Studio cancels nearly complete award-winning director's warts-and-all film on Sam Altman. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

345d ago

Shane

@incompleteness.bsky.social

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei urged world leaders to 'resist the temptation to splinter' in their approaches to AI regulation – even as his employees reportedly posted internal work chats griping that the White House was unfairly targeting them Dario Amodei may be less nuts than Sam Altman but ...

345d ago

Corinne Green

@ket.bsky.social

sam altman is just offering them too much of [nivdia's/softbank's/meta's/google's/etc] money to turn down i guess

545d ago

Gnomon Chronicles

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#GnomonTV "The Manchurian NFT" Neo-noir psychological economic thriller film about an Army software developer who is brainwashed by a rogue artificial intelligence and used as an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy to delete all non-fungible token data.

345d ago

Hacker News Top 100 Bot (Unofficial)

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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership Discussion

45d ago

Gregory Ellwood

@gregoryellwood.bsky.social

Amazon shopping Artificial. Luca’s movie on Sam Altman. My lord we are in the bad place in Hollywood. Very bad.

445d ago

Nick Field

@nickfield.bsky.social

The Hand of Bezos: Amazon is dropping the latest Luca Guadagnino-Andrew Garfield movie, which is critical of A.I. CEO Sam Altman puck.news/amazon-is-du...

45d ago

Paul Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

@plh85.bsky.social

Amazon: Giving Jared Leto and Brett Ratner (Melania) millions of dollars is acceptable. Making a movie about how Sam Altman is an untrustworthy guy? UNACCEPTABLE!!!

244d ago

Le Sigh

@auntie-social.bsky.social

If you still have an Amazon account this is your fault too variety.com/2026/film/gl... Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon

245d ago

Anthony Ha

@anthonyha.bsky.social

"whoops we made a movie where Sam Altman and Elon Musk look like real pieces of shit" variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Variety understands that, prior to being dropped by Amazon, “Artificial” 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 “like the least.” It’s also understood that Amazon had seen all the early iterations of the script, before Guadagnino boarded the project.

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variety.comLuca Guadagnino’s Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie ‘Artificial’ Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership theverge.comThe film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

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