Amazon drops Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial'

Amazon has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s controversial Sam Altman biopic, which had been poised for an awards run next year. The company said it "believes that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the film-making team to find the film a new home," a statement first reported by Puck.

The decision follows a significant partnership between Amazon and OpenAI: Altman is CEO, and the deal will see Amazon immediately invest $15bn in the company, "followed by another $35bn in the coming months when certain conditions are met," according to the artificial intelligence company’s website, after a $38bn cloud computing deal signed by the two companies last year.

Artificial stars Andrew Garfield as Altman and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Other cast members include Monica Barbaro, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, Angus Imrie, Chris O’Dowd and Mark Rylance.

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