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NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon has dropped their upcoming film Artificial, about OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman, four months after the two companies agreed to a “strategic partnership.”
Artificial, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Andrew Garfield, was reportedly nearly complete and already having test screenings when Amazon MGM Studios announced Saturday that the company had parted way with the film, with Amazon alluding to the conflict of interest in a statement.
“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “We believe that Artificial 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.”
