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The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February to expand OpenAI\u2019s use of Amazon Web Services and develop custom AI models, which included a $50 billion investment on Amazon\u2019s part. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe 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,\u201d a spokesperson for Amazon said. \u201cWe believe that \u2018Artificial\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA representative for Guadagnino did not immediately respond to <em>Variety<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2498\">\u2018Dear You\u2019 Director Credits Overseas Chinese Letter-Writing Tradition for Sleeper Hit\u2019s Emotional Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBesides Garfield, \u201cArtificial\u201d has a hugely starry cast including Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, Angus Imrie, Chris O\u2019Dowd and Mark Rylance also feature. The film was written by \u201cSNL\u201d alum Simon Rich and focuses on the brief period Altman was fired from his position at OpenAI in 2023 and then rehired.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Variety<\/em> understands that, prior to being dropped by Amazon, \u201cArtificial\u201d already had several test screenings, which went down very positively, and screened for other studios on Thursday. According to an insider who has seen the movie, the characters of Altman and Musk are the least sympathetic and the ones audiences would \u201clike the least.\u201d It\u2019s also understood that Amazon had seen all the early iterations of the script, before Guadagnino boarded the project.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2497\">Pearl River Film Launches Studio With Author Guo Ni, Sets Eight-Franchise Slate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tPuck was the first to report the news of Amazon dropping the film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Guadagnino&#8217;s nearly finished Sam Altman movie, &#8220;Artificial,&#8221; has been dropped by Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1584,2128,2129,2130],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-amazon","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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