After being dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI movie Artificial is in advanced talks to find a new home with Neon, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. If the deal makes, this will end nearly two weeks of speculation about the film’s fate.
Amazon dropped the film in mid-June, months after the tech giant announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. The partnership also sees OpenAI using Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
“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,” a spokesperson for Amazon told THR at the time. “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.” The decision to drop Artificial came from Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios chief Mike Hopkins.
Artificial takes place during the tumultuous period at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days. The cast includes Andrew Garfield as Atlman, Monica Barbaro as Mira Murati and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever.
