{"id":2469518,"date":"2026-06-21T17:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2469518"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:01:43","slug":"amazon-dropped-luca-guadagninos-openai-film-months-after-partnering-with-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amazon-dropped-luca-guadagninos-openai-film-months-after-partnering-with-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s OpenAI film, months after partnering with OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<p>Amazon MGM Studios will no longer release Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s buzzy Sam Altman biopic <em>Artificial<\/em>,<em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Variety <\/a><\/em>reported Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-3xl font-sans text-lg leading-normal md:text-xl md:leading-7\">\n        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><br \/>\n        <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/toy-story-5-box-office\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ml-1\">&#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; opening weekend box office to set franchise record<\/span><br \/>\n            <svg class=\"ml-1 w-4 h-4 font-normal fill-current\"><use href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/images\/icons\/spritemap.svg#sprite-arrow-right-thin\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/openai\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">OpenAI<\/a> CEO and Ike Barinholtz as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=mashable+elon+musk&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1206US1206&amp;oq=mashable+elon+musk&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABjvBTIKCAIQABiABBiiBDIHCAMQABjvBTIKCAQQABiABBiiBDIKCAUQABiiBBiJBdIBCDIwMzNqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Elon Musk<\/a>, focuses on Altman&#8217;s firing (and later rehiring) from OpenAI in 2023. In February of 2026, OpenAI and Amazon announced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/amazon-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">a strategic multi-year partnership<\/a>, which includes Amazon investing $50 billion in Altman&#8217;s company.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/19\/business\/media\/amazon-openai-artificial-movie-sam-altman.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the team behind <em>Artificial <\/em>was shocked at Amazon MGM&#8217;s decision. Guadagnino has worked with the studio before, including on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/challengers-review-zendaya\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Challengers<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/after-the-hunt-review\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>After the Hunt<\/em><\/a>. <em>The New York Times <\/em>reported that Amazon MGM had previously been supportive of <em>Artificial, <\/em>spending $40 million on it and preparing it for a 2027 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/sxsw\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">SXSW<\/a> release and potential awards run.<\/p>\n<section x-data=\"window.newsletter({ isDeal: false })\" x-init=\"init()\" aria-label=\"Newsletter Sign-Up\" class=\"relative invisible my-12 mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl md:my-16 ziff-component accent-cut-for-gradient-bg accent-cut-border-for-gradient-bg bg-gradient-fuchsia-secondary p-[2px]\">\n<p>\n            <span class=\"text-gradient-fuchsia-secondary\">Mashable Top Stories<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&#8220;We 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,&#8221; an Amazon spokesperson told <em>Variety<\/em>. &#8220;We believe that <em>Artificial<\/em> 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times <\/em>reported that <em>Artificial <\/em>screened last week to potential buyers, including Neon, A24, Focus Features, Netflix, and Warner Bros.&#8217; Clockwork. However, no one has snapped up <em>Artificial <\/em>yet.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable\u2019s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"mx-auto max-w-7xl\">\n<\/section><\/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 mashable.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon MGM Studios will no longer release Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s buzzy Sam Altman biopic Artificial, Variety reported Friday. SEE ALSO: &#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; opening weekend box office to set franchise record The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as the OpenAI CEO and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, focuses on Altman&#8217;s firing (and later rehiring) from OpenAI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2469519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Amazon-dropped-Luca-Guadagninos-OpenAI-film-months-after-partnering-with.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469518","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=2469518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469520,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469518\/revisions\/2469520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}