Amazon spent $40 million making a movie starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, only to decide not to release it when it was almost finished The movie, called Artificial, follows the chaos at OpenAI in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired as CEO and brought back just days later Filming was already done and the movie was nearly ready when Amazon decided it would be better off with another studio Just a few months earlier, Amazon had announced a $50 Billion investment in OpenAI, the very company the movie was about Amazon put the film up for sale, Netflix and several other studios passed on it, and eventually a much smaller distributor called Neon bought the rights Neon is now planning to release the movie this Christmas!