NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cArtificial,\u201d Luca Guadagnino’s starry film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, has been acquired by the indie distributor Neon after it was dropped by Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n
Neon said Tuesday that it bought the film following a bidding process. Amazon dropped the nearly complete $40 million film, starring Andrew Garfield as Altman, earlier this month, a surprise move that came just months after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI.<\/p>\n
Amazon said then that \u201cArtificial\u201d would \u201cbe better served if it were released by a different studio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neon said Tuesday that it will release \u201cArtificial\u201d this year and \u201ccompete in this year’s Oscar race.\u201d The film, which chronicles the days leading up to the 2023 firing and reinstatement of Altman as OpenAI chief executive, also stars Monica Barbaro, Yura Borisov and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. Ike Barinholtz plays Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
In late February, Amazon signed an expansive multiyear partnership with the artificial intelligence startup. Then earlier this month, Amazon MGM said it would put the film up for sale to find it a new home.<\/p>\n
Neon has established an enviable awards-season track record with Oscar winners like \u201cParasite\u201d and \u201cAnora.\u201d The specialty label has backed the last seven Palme d’Or winners at the Cannes Film Festival. The studio declined to disclose how much it paid for the worldwide rights to \u201cArtificial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe acquisition underscores Neon\u2019s commitment to partnering with visionary filmmakers, and bringing ambitious cinema to audiences around the world,\u201d the studio said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cArtificial,\u201d Luca Guadagnino’s starry film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, has been acquired by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8009,5044,140,132,7543,44201,43249,48165,48164,48144,1602,1603,4127,35301,3583,1600,5388,3584,3585,5389,5390,370,48166],"class_list":["post-91908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-deepmind","tag-elon-musk","tag-google","tag-google-deepmind","tag-ike-barinholtz","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-mark-rylance","tag-monica-barbaro","tag-openai-artificial-amazon-neon","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30031-ap-california-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30119-ap-washington-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30597-ap-business-news-f-wire","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-31995-ap-online-general-financial-business-news","tag-product-32005-ap-online-high-tech-news","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-product-33330-ap-premium-entertainment-movies","tag-sam-altman","tag-yura-borisov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91908","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=91908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}