Neon Rescues Sam Altman Movie After Amazon Drops It
Gizmodo • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Neon, the independent studio known for backing the Oscar-winning film Parasite, will release "Artificial," a comedy-drama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
- Amazon MGM dropped the film earlier this month, stating it would be better served by a different studio and is collaborating with the filmmakers to find a new distributor.
- The film portrays an unsympathetic view of Altman and his rival Elon Musk, with Andrew Garfield playing Altman and Ike Barinholtz portraying Musk.
- "Artificial" focuses on the four days in 2023 when Altman was fired and then rehired as OpenAI CEO, featuring Monica Barbaro as Mira Murati and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever.
- Other studios like Mubi, A24, Netflix, and Focus Features considered or rejected the film, with Mubi backed by Sequoia Capital, a major OpenAI investor.
