{"id":543986,"date":"2026-06-19T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/543986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:15:13","slug":"amazon-drops-sam-altman-movie-after-openai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/543986\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Drops Sam Altman Movie After OpenAI Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a828abf4e1ecb944e45bf6da28e5d850be-lucasam.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture; Images: Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmql0v8s4000i0ihqjw7fnqo3@published\" data-word-count=\"126\">Amazon flew too close to the sun, and now it\u2019s not making a movie. Amazon MGM Studios just dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/luca-guadagnino-criterion-closet.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2019s Sam Altman biopic, Artificial, from its roster. \u201cWe have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker \u2014 not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,\u201d a spokesperson for Amazon told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>. \u201cWe believe that \u2018Artificial\u2019 will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.\u201d In February, OpenAI and Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/amazon-partnership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a strategic partnership deal, with Amazon investing $50 million into the platform; the deal will include the use of Amazon Web Services and the development of custom AI models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmql2qr1s001b3b7cd6uglqm2@published\" data-word-count=\"79\">Written by Simon Rich, the film starred Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, following his intense 2023 firing and rehiring at OpenAI. Puck reports that other key figures depicted in the film include OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The film stars Mark Rylance, Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman, and Ike Barinholtz. Puck reports the film is already being screened to potential buyers.<\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n<p>An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture; Images: Getty Images Amazon flew too close to the sun, and now it\u2019s not making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,150864,24639,3112,289,290,33552,18,19,17,24642,327,5,307,308,82],"class_list":["post-543986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amazon-mgm","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-artificial","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-changes","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116778378142564331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}