Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino‘s high-profile OpenAI film “Artificial,” starring Andrew Garfield as the infamous Sam Altman, is now reportedly getting a release date that could push it out of the 2026 awards season entirely.
A report from Page Six claims that the film’s distributor, Amazon MGM Studios, is looking to hold back the release of the tech-world biopic to an unnamed date in early 2027 to avoid competition with Aaron Sorkin‘s “The Social Network” sequel, “The Social Reckoning,” due for release in theaters on October 9, 2026.
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This would likely mean that “Artificial” would be bumped out of the 2026 awards race and pushed into 2027, allowing it to have an extra level of breathing room from the Sorkin pic as they’d likely be in direct competition for awards considerations with similar tech-world stories based on true events.
The pic has also enlisted actors such as Monica Barbaro (“A Complete Unknown”), Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Cooper Hoffman (“The Long Walk”), Jason Schwartzman (“Asteroid City”), Billie Lourd (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”), Chris O’Dowd (“Bender”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”), and more.
Another angle here could allow Amazon/Guadagnino, might want to delay “Artificial” to give them some wiggle room to shoot more footage concerning the current trial with Elon Musk (played by “The Studio” actor Ike Barinholtz) and looming speculation that the AI company is on the brink of bankruptcy (industry talk that the entire tech bubble is looking to burst).
Stay tuned for official word from Amazon MGM Studios about when audiences can expect to view “Artificial” in theaters.
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