{"slug": "the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm", "title": "The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM", "summary": "Amazon MGM has dropped Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's 2023 firing and rehiring, stating the movie will be better served by a different studio. The studio is working to find a new distributor for the film, which stars Andrew Garfield.", "body_md": "Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, *Artificial*, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM.\n\n# The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM\n\nThe film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, covers the week in 2023 that the OpenAI CEO was fired and re-hired.\n\nThe film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, covers the week in 2023 that the OpenAI CEO was fired and re-hired.\n\nThe film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman’s termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for [about a year](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/luca-guadagnino-to-direct-openai-movie-1236236357/). The cast also includes *A Complete Unknown* actress Monica Barbaro as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, and *Anora*’s Yura Borisov as OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.\n\nIn a statement to * Deadline*, the studio said it believes the movie “will be better served if it were released by a different studio and is working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”\n\n*Puck*first reported the studio’s decision not to release the film.\n\nAmazon and OpenAI also have close ties, with Amazon in February announcing a $50 billion investment in the AI lab.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.\n\n## Most Popular\n\n- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans\n- Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness\n- Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits\n- This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you\n- Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952906/sam-altman-film-artificial-openai-amazon-mgm-dropped", "published_at": "2026-06-19 14:15:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 14:36:26.873350+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Amazon MGM", "Luca Guadagnino", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "Andrew Garfield", "Monica Barbaro", "Elon Musk", "Ilya Sutskever"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-film-about-sam-altman-has-been-dropped-by-amazon-mgm.jsonld"}}