Amazon releases Sam Altman’s almost finished film about OpenAI

A highly anticipated film with big stars, a major director, and a potentially very salable premise about a hot-button topic was abandoned by its distributor, even though the film is nearly finished.

the movie is called Artificiala docudrama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his company. The Amazing Spider-Man star andres garfield plays Altman; Luca Guadagnino (Challengers, after the hunt) directed the film. It was going to be released by Amazon MGM Studios, but now that plan has been cancelled.

In a statement to VarietyAmazon said.

We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker, not to mention a long-standing relationship that we look forward to continuing. We believe ‘Artificial’ would be better if released by a different studio and we worked closely with the filmmaking team to find a new home for the film.

In addition to Garfield, the film’s cast includes Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman and with The studyIke Barinholtz as Elon Musk. By VarietyThe film “focuses on the brief period in which Altman was fired from his position at OpenAI in 2023 and then rehired.”

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Amazon announced in particular a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI in February this year. Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI, while the two companies also said they would “co-create a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models, available on Amazon Bedrock for AWS customers to build production-scale generative AI applications and agents.”

VarietyThe report states that Artificial It is being screened for other studios that may be interested in distributing the film. He also states that the film has already had several test screenings “that were very positive” and that “Altman and Musk’s characters are the least sympathetic and the ones that audiences would ‘least like’.” Surely that has nothing to do with any of this…