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Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial' depicts OpenAI leaders as reckless, premieres at NYFF after Amazon dropped it

Artificial, a comedy-drama from director Luca Guadagnino about OpenAI and the AI race, premiered at the New York Film Festival starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, Yuri Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. AmazonMGM originally held distribution rights but dropped the film this summer following Amazon's $50 billion deal with OpenAI, and indie distributor Neon subsequently picked it up.

wired.com · 2026-10-06

Neon releases first trailer for Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial'

A trailer has dropped for 'Artificial,' the Luca Guadagnino-directed film about Sam Altman's brief 2023 ouster and reinstatement at OpenAI, starring Andrew Garfield as the CEO. The footage leans into an unsettling, horror-tinged tone, with Garfield's Altman warning that 'countries will fall' and industries will collapse while wandering past a bunker full of weapons. The movie, also featuring Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Ike Barinholtz, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Rylance, opens in theaters on Christmas Day.

engadget.com · 2026-09-08