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Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney has released a four-hour biographical documentary titled 'Musk' that portrays the tech mogul as a stock-pumping promoter rather than a visionary inventor. Before its release, the film reportedly drew Musk's anger and the threat of a defamation lawsuit, along with unconfirmed rumors that Universal Pictures hesitated over international theatrical distribution.
Several film and TV projects about tech leaders are debuting this season, including Sony's "The Social Reckoning" (about the Facebook whistleblower leak), Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," A24's Theranos film "You Can See Everything," Neon's "Artificial" about Sam Altman's brief 2023 ouster from OpenAI, and a Netflix "Instadocs" episode on the Hugging Face security incident. Musk has publicly criticized the documentary about him, while Altman said he understands public anxiety being projected onto him.
After reports that TikTok, Meta, YouTube and X had all declined to run paid ads for the trailer of Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk,' Meta and YouTube said the ads would now run. Meta called the initial rejection 'an error,' while YouTube said the ad had been 'temporarily restricted' by its system before being cleared after review. TikTok and X, whose owner Elon Musk publicly criticized Gibney, have not reversed their decisions.
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its annual lineup, featuring new work from Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Werner Herzog, and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary. Among the festival's early standouts is 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' starring John Turturro as an aging, technophobic thief navigating a city that has moved on to smartphones. The film hits theaters October 30th.