NYT's Mike Isaac says Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino's film Artificial to protect its partnership with OpenAI

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money talks: after putting 50B into OpenAI • Amazon ratted on Anthropic • dropped their skeptical film about Sam Altman

Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman movie, “Artificial,” has been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios.

The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios. The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February, which included a $50 billion investment. https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830/

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rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac

imagine making this statement with a straight face after dropping a director’s mostly finished film

at least be honest and say “yeah we did a deal with openai and have to ditch you, sorry”

weak shit

Matthew Belloni@MattBelloni

News: Amazon, fresh off a massive partnership with OpenAI, is dumping its finished Sam Altman movie ARTIFICIAL from Luca Guadagnino. Yeah.... Details and full statement from Amazon ⬇️⬇️ https://puck.news/amazon-is-dumping-its-sam-altman-movie/

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Stop the war@ilan_peer

@MikeIsaac a new home

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hondacivicduty@THEamberadams

@MikeIsaac altman wants to be the ai overlord of pike county, ohio, where i’m from. truly wild

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Meyer Gritz@GritzMeyer81539

@MikeIsaac Really disappointing move by @AmazonMGMStudio. What is our world coming to?

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Steven Cheng@stevencheng

@MikeIsaac seen the same pivot in robotics too, scrap a fully tuned vision stack overnight just to chase a new partnership, really makes you wonder how they justify shelving months of actual engineering work

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🅱🅔🅝@ben_mathes

@MikeIsaac It Streisand effects the movie too

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Steven Cheng@stevencheng

@MikeIsaac Do you know which director's project got pulled, or is this just about studios quietly shifting their workflows to AI now?

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