{"id":91055,"date":"2026-06-30T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/91055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:07:13","slug":"neon-lands-luca-guadagninos-openai-movie-artificial-dropped-by-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/91055\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Lands Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI Movie Artificial Dropped by Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cArtificial<\/a>,\u201d Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2018s movie about Sam Altman and OpenAI, is about to get a new home.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon<\/a> is closing in on a deal to acquire the nearly-completed $40 million film \u2014\u00a0set during the tumultuous time when Altman (played by Andrew Garfield) was fired and then rehired by the AI giant \u2014 after Amazon MGM Studios announced that it believed it would \u201cbe better served if it were released by a different studio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety reported that, of those who had seen the movie in screenings put on by CAA Media Finance \u2014 which is handling sales \u2014 Netflix, A24 and Focus chose not to pursue it. Mubi<\/a> was also in the mix for the distribution rights. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon\u2019s decision came just months after the company signed a major partnership with OpenAI, including a $50 billion investment, and less than a year Altman\u2019s relationship with Jeff Bezos was underlined by his appearance at the Amazon boss\u2019s wedding. Variety heard that test screenings had been positive, but the studio still chose to exit, raising eyebrows about its motivations.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to various people who have seen the film and read the script, \u201cArtificial\u201d portrays Altman as deeply untrustworthy and Elon Musk (played by Ike Barinholtz) as highly dislikable. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Garfield and Barinholtz, \u201cArtificial\u201d has a starry cast including Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and Yura Borisov as former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. 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. <\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently in the final stages of post-production, \u201cArtificial\u201d had been eyeing a festival launch at SXSW before Amazon\u2019s departure. Given the latest acquisition, the movie could now potentially be in play for a slot at the Venice Film Festival, where Guadagnino\u2019s previous films debuted.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpokespeople for Amazon and CAA declined to comment, and a spokesperson from Neon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Puck first reported Neon\u2019s pole position in the dealmaking. <\/p>\n

\n\tAngelique Jackson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cArtificial,\u201d Luca Guadagnino\u2018s movie about Sam Altman and OpenAI, is about to get a new home. Neon is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[601,43249,21641,157],"class_list":["post-91055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-artificial","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-neon","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91055","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=91055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}