New York Film Festival audiences will be the first to see “Artificial,” director Luca Guadagnino‘s movie about OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The buzzy drama, which Neon acquired after Amazon MGM dropped the nearly competed film, will host its world premiere on Oct. 5 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Guadagnino and the cast, including Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro, Yura Borisov, Ike Barinholtz, Cooper Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman and Chris O’Dowd, are expected to attend.
Barbaro plays Open AI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati, Borisov is the OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever who ousts Altman, and Barinholtz portrays Elon Musk. Producers on the movie include David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford, Guadagnino, Jennifer Fox and Simon Rich. Plus, Altman attended the wedding of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos in 2025.
Multiple studios, including Mubi and Focus, circled “Artificial” before it landed at Neon. Artificial traces this trajectory with clear-eyed horror, dark humor, and a sense of existential urgency. If ever there was a movie for its moment, this is it.” Guadagnino’s history with NYFF includes “Call Me by Your Name,” which was a main slate selection, “Bones and All” and “Queer,” which were spotlight selections, and “After the Hunt,” which opened last year’s festival.
The 64th edition of New York Film Festival, which takes place from Sept. 25 through Oct. 12, will also feature James Gray’s crime drama “Paper Tiger,” starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller; Ava DuVernay’s documentary “14th”; director Tony Gilroy’s music drama “Behemoth!” with Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde and Will Arnett; and Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju sequel “Godzilla Minus Zero.”
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