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20260630 - Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors

June 30 · 4 min · 4.4 MB

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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/30/sam-altman-movie-blocked-by-ai-partner-distributors/ - blog post

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Luca Guadagnino Eyes 'Artificial' At Amazon MGM As Next Movie With Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro And 'Anora' Actor Yura Borisov Circling https://deadline.com/2025/06/luca-guadagnino-artificial-andrew-garfield-monica-barbaro-1236421140/
Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830/
Amazon Is Dumping Its Sam Altman Movie https://puck.news/amazon-is-dumping-its-sam-altman-movie/
Netflix, A24 and Focus Pass on Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial' as Mubi Circles https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-artificial-sam-altman-netflix-a24-mubi-1236786623/
Google Investing in 'Backrooms' Studio A24 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-investing-in-backrooms-studio-a24-e7585ebe
Membership cancelled, email sent https://old.reddit.com/r/A24/comments/1ucsqvo/membership_cancelled_email_sent/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/18/pivot-to-ai-replacing-sam-altman-with-a-very-small-shell-script/
OpenAI's '$110b' funding round is $25b and some promises https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/03/openais-110b-funding-round-is-25b-and-some-promises/
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