Amazon shelves its finished Sam Altman movie months after a $50B OpenAI deal (the-independent.com)
Amazon's framing is almost polite: it has "the utmost respect" for Guadagnino and is helping the team "find the film a new home" — reportedly A24 may bite, since it's screening well. The film, written by SNL's Simon Rich, dramatizes the five days Altman was fired and reinstated.
The thread cut past the PR to the structure: when the platform that owns the studio also owns a stake in the subject, an unflattering portrait becomes a conflict of interest by design.
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