The cast of Artificial – Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – have spoken out about Amazon dropping it last month, with star Andrew Garfield saying that he both “was and wasn’t” surprised by the move.
In June, Amazon MGM Studios revealed that it would not be distributing the nearly-finished $40m film, stating that it would “be better served if it were released by a different studio”. It came just months after Amazon announced it was investing $50bn in Open AI and roughly a year after he attended the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to Lauren Sánchez.