Artificial: Andrew Garfield & Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Horrifying’ OpenAI Movie Gets First Reactions
Early reviews praise Andrew Garfield’s performance and call Luca Guadagnino’s AI drama darkly funny, unsettling and one of the festival’s most urgent films.
- On Monday, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial premiered at the New York Film Festival, starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the company's chaotic November 2023 boardroom crisis.
- Amazon MGM Studios dropped the $40 million production in June after signing a $50 billion partnership with OpenAI, sparking conflict-of-interest concerns. Neon acquired worldwide distribution rights weeks later without an upfront fee.
- Screenwriter Simon Rich's script explores the AI boom's origins, with critics praising Andrew Garfield's portrayal of Altman and Yura Borisov's performance as trailblazer Ilya Sutskever. Early reviews call the film "provocative" and "visceral."
- Neon scheduled a limited theatrical release for December 25, 2026, positioning the film as an awards-season contender. The Christmas opening signals the distributor's confidence in the project's critical prospects.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman conceded in a Vanity Fair interview that the biopic "might be a good movie," though he noted it "will not be good as an accurate depiction." His mixed response underscores ongoing tensions between the film's dark satire and the tech figures it depicts.
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Artificial doesn’t pull punches in its scathingly comic look at OpenAI’s origins
Sam Altman may be a relatively new figure to most of the public, but in tech circles, his story starts much earlier than when he opened Pandora’s Box and launched OpenAI to the world. In an industry that prizes speed and ingenuity, Altman seemed like he would fit in with the tech scions he partnered or competed with in the past. As audiences have come to learn through biopics like The Social Network or Steve Jobs, these stories are often much mo…
Oscars Predictions 2027: Where the Race Stands After ‘Artificial’ NYFF Premiere and Andrew Garfield’s Supporting Actor Push
Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial," which premiered at the New York Film Festival, has emerged as a major contender across multiple Oscar categories, including a supporting actor push for Andrew Garfield.
Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial' Spills the Guts of Tech-Creep Sam Altman's OpenAI
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Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts
At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do anything to get […]
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