{"id":2333122,"date":"2026-03-17T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333122"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:56:08","slug":"open-ai-boss-sam-altmans-appearance-at-hollywood-celebrity-hangout-sparks-rumors-of-a-big-move-into-the-entertainment-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/open-ai-boss-sam-altmans-appearance-at-hollywood-celebrity-hangout-sparks-rumors-of-a-big-move-into-the-entertainment-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Open AI boss Sam Altman\u2019s appearance at Hollywood celebrity hangout sparks rumors of a big move into the entertainment biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you can\u2019t beat \u2019em, join \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night before the Oscars, Tower Bar was packed with entertainment and media names \u2014 but the most talked about diner wasn\u2019t from a major studio or network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Altman<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 the OpenAI CEO named \u201cVillain of the Year\u201d a few months ago by Puck \u2014 was sitting in a corner banquette holding court with some tech bros.<\/p>\n<p>Dining nearby was\u00a0<strong>Jared Leto<\/strong>, while Disney president\u00a0<strong>Dana Walden<\/strong>\u00a0supped across the room at a table with new chairman of Disney Entertainment Television\u00a0<strong>Debra OConnell\u00a0<\/strong>and WME co-chairs\u00a0<strong>Richard Weitz\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Christian Muirhead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other guests who\u2019d been strategically seated by the town\u2019s top ma\u00eetre d\u2019,\u00a0<strong>Dimitri Dimitrov<\/strong>, included former White House Press Secretary\u00a0<strong>Dee Dee Myers<\/strong>, New York Times columnist\u00a0<strong>Maureen Dowd<\/strong>, celebrity.land anchor\u00a0<strong>Kaitlan Collins,\u00a0<\/strong>crisis PR queen\u00a0<strong>Risa Heller\u00a0<\/strong>and new Vanity Fair editor\u00a0<strong>Mark Guiducci<\/strong>, who was dining with New York Times White House correspondent\u00a0<strong>Shawn McCreesh<\/strong>, and family members before heading over to LACMA to put the finishing touches on his reimagined VF party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8810871\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption>Disney president Dana Walden was also spotted at Tower Bar before the Oscars. <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(I tried to send Guiducci\u2019s table dessert, but he took off too soon! And somehow I confusingly ended up eating two sundaes. Not a great pre-Oscars tux strategy.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Altman was the name on everyone\u2019s lips on Saturday, and there was even a rumor that\u00a0<strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>\u00a0was also in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Sources tell Page Six Hollywood that the AI exec has expressed interest in holding a few meetings around town with entertainment companies, and would be open to an acquisition if he could find the right fit. (And you thought Netflix wanting to buy Warner Bros. touched a nerve in the industry.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since bursting onto the scene in 2023, Altman hasn\u2019t made many friends in Hollywood. Last year, OpenAI drew the ire of the biz with its video generation platform Sora that allowed users to generate videos rife with copyright infringement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The company added guardrails and, soon after, inked a $1 billion licensing deal with Disney \u2014 landing a 10-figure investment plus access to Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars IP, including characters, costumes, props, vehicles and \u201ciconic environments\u201d (you mean like Tatooine or the Dagobah system?).<\/p>\n<p>It seems Altman has at least made entreaties to Hollywood\u2019s C suite. We\u2019ve heard OpenAI\u2019s attempts to get filmmakers and other creatives to use its tools have largely fallen flat \u2014 though that could also be because A-listers like\u00a0<strong>Ben Affleck\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Darren Aronofsky<\/strong>\u00a0decided to make their own AI tech instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But like\u00a0<strong>Jeff Bezos<\/strong>\u00a0(in buying MGM) and the\u00a0<strong>Ellison<\/strong>\u00a0family (in buying both Paramount and Warner Bros.), Altman could be the next tech bro looking for his Hollywood close-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t beat \u2019em, join \u2019em. On Saturday night before the Oscars, Tower Bar was packed with entertainment and media names \u2014 but the most talked about diner wasn\u2019t from a major studio or network. Sam Altman\u00a0\u2014 the OpenAI CEO named \u201cVillain of the Year\u201d a few months ago by Puck \u2014 was sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2333123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22860,23032],"class_list":["post-2333122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Open-AI-boss-Sam-Altmans-appearance-at-Hollywood-celebrity-hangout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333124,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333122\/revisions\/2333124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}