{"id":88119,"date":"2026-06-27T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/88119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:39:08","slug":"luca-guadagnino-says-hes-not-surprised-amazon-dropped-his-openai-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/88119\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino Says He’s Not Surprised Amazon Dropped His OpenAI Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLuca Guadagnino<\/a> says it wasn\u2019t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman<\/a> movie Artificial shortly after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,\u201d Guadagnino told Italian television, \u201c[but] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to news show Otto e mezzo on Italian network La7, Guadagnino cited an incident from 2003 when CBS canceled the broadcast of The Regans, a miniseries about President Ronald Regan and his family, starring Josh Brolin and Judy Davis, following a conservative backlash. (The series eventually aired on CBS\u2019s sister network Showtime.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Italian director could have mentioned a more recent example, Ali Abbasi\u2019s 2024 Donald Trump movie The Apprentice, which premiered to acclaim in Cannes but was blackballed by studio and independent distributors, before finally landing with Tom Ortenberg\u2019s indie outfit Briarcliff Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeither of those, however, is a direct comp to the Artificial situation. Amazon pulled out of Guadagnino\u2019s film<\/a> shortly after announcing its $50 billion strategic partnership with OpenAI, a deal that will see the two companies jointly build custom AI models for Amazon\u2019s internal engineering teams. When Amazon dropped it, Guadagnino\u2019s $40 million Social Network-esque feature was nearly finished and was expected to premiere at one of the fall film festivals.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is now in limbo. CAA Media Finance, which represents Guadagnino, has been screening the movie to potential buyers but many of the usual suspects \u2014\u00a0Netflix, Focus Features, Warner Bros.\u2019 Clockwork and A24 \u2014\u00a0have reportedly passed<\/a>. At this stage, Mubi, which released Guadagnino\u2019s Queer, is considered the most likely buyer.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile he didn\u2019t speak directly to the Amazon MGM situation, Guadagnino did issue a warning about AI, or rather, the companies that control the technology and its use worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo me, the issue isn\u2019t artificial intelligence itself,\u201d the director said, \u201cWhat matters most to me are the people. It is completely changing the face \u2014 not just of society in terms of consumption and how we relate to these tools, but the very face of the identity of a place like the United States and the entire world \u2014 with the rise of this small oligarchy that wields truly radical control.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Guadagnino says it wasn\u2019t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman movie Artificial shortly after Amazon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31430,898,43249,157,370],"class_list":["post-88119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-international","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}