Andrew Garfield is Sam Altman in ‘Artificial’ teaser trailer
Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever in ‘Artificial.’ (Neon)
Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in the Artificial teaser trailer.
Neon has released the first trailer for director Luca Guadagnino’s comedic drama film about the world of artificial intelligence. The studio also announced the movie will release in select theaters on Christmas Day before expanding to wide release in January.
Artificial explores Altman’s OpenAI during a period in 2023 when Altman was fired and rehired in a matter of days. Guadagnino directed it from a script by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich.
Alongside Garfield, the film’s cast includes Mark Rylance, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz.
The teaser trailer finds Garfield’s Altman arriving to an idyllic cabin on the water. In voice-over, we hear him ask, “What is the image of the future that you see?”
As he travels through the cabin, Garfield goes into a secret bunker filled to the brim with weapons.
“We opened Pandora’s box together. The future is inevitable. Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse. And we get to be the ones to shepherd people in to this new world,” Garfield’s Altman says.
Neon picked up Artificial after its original distributor, Amazon MGM Studios, decided it would no longer release it. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed to ABC Audio it would no longer release Artificial in a statement shared on June 19.
“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker – not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”
A stage adaptation of Prince’s Purple Rain is coming to Broadway next spring.
Producer Orin Wolf has announced that the musical, which was first announced back in January 2024, will begin previews at New York’s Majestic Theatre on March 12, 2027, with an official opening date of April 12, 2027.
The production will feature over 20 Prince hits, including such songs as “When Doves Cry,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Take Me with You” and “The Beautiful Ones.”
The musical will be set in Minneapolis in 1984, and like the original film, it centers around a magnetic performer known as The Kid. According to the description, he “seems like the perfect frontman to lead his bandmates to stardom. But when his past threatens everything he’s built, he’ll have to sing his way out of the darkness and into the spotlight where he belongs.”
The musical will be directed by Saheem Ali, Tony-nominated for Buena Vista Social Club, with a book by Peter Duchan, music by MJ The Musical Tony winner Jason Michael Webb and choreography by Ebony Williams.
So far no cast for the Broadway production has been announced. Tickets will go on sale in September.
Released in July 1984, Purple Rain grossed close to $70 million in the United States. The soundtrack was Prince’s first #1 and spent 24 weeks on the top of the chart.
Hannah Waddingham, Octavia Spencer and Ed Skrein in ‘Ride or Die.’ (Prime Video)
Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham are besties on the run in Ride or Die.
The new series, which premieres on Prime Video Wednesday, follows best friends who think they know everything about each other — until one discovers the other is an international assassin.
The show has it all — action, drama, comedy and romance — but its heart is the friendship between Debbie (Spencer) and Judith (Waddingham).
“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to get to play in all of these sandboxes,” Spencer told ABC Audio. “For me personally, horror is my favorite genre and then action … the fact that I’m getting to be in an action, comedy, drama with Hannah and getting to play at this level was amazing.”
Spencer said the characters were “otherworldly to me because we see these women. We are these women in real life.”
She made sure to quickly clarify, “Not the assassin part of it,” right before Waddingham chimed in, “Or am I?”
Spencer laughed and said, “Or maybe she is. Maybe she’s the secret sauce.”
As for what it was like to get to play Spencer’s best friend, Waddingham said, “That is the crux of it all for me.”
“It’s not every day that an Oscar winner gets on a Zoom call and goes, ‘Come and play and do this amazing role, and I’ve got an amazing role, and we’re going to have Bill Nighy playing an amazing role,'” Waddingham said. “It was just almost too much for a girl to listen to and feel like you could step up to the plate with these massive hitters.”
Pamela Anderson is seen at the Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Pier during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2026, in Venice, Italy. (Carlo Paloni/Getty Images)
Pamela Anderson opened up about her experience living with hepatitis C in a moving speech over the weekend.
The actress delivered the remarks, which were posted in part by Variety on Sunday, at a gala hosted by amfAR, an organization focused on global health and ending AIDS, where the actress received the award of courage.
“Back in the late ’90s, when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, there was no cure,” Anderson said in her speech. “It was a death sentence — that’s what my doctor told me, that I probably had around 10 years to live.”
Anderson said the diagnosis and life expectancy prediction had a significant impact on her decision-making.
“I’m sure that colored and corrupted my decisions,” she said. “It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out.”
The Last Showgirl actress said when a cure finally came “10 blurry years later,” she was able to take it.
“I was lucky. I was offered it in its early stages. And it took everything I had in my bank to pay for it,” she said, noting the cure “wasn’t covered by insurance yet.”
“I felt tremendous guilt that others weren’t granted the same access,” she said.
Anderson, who said she is now free of hepatitis C — the model and actress first announced she was free from the disease in 2015, according to People — said her “experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey” that has stayed with her years later.
“I worked with organizations in those times to bring awareness, I promoted getting tested, reducing the stigma, but who was I kidding, my words did not match my feelings. I was angry and scared,” she said.
“I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from that news. I’ve assimilated it, I’ve finally come to terms, maybe,” she added.
Anderson said she found healing through the arts, adding that her experience helped fuel her career in film.
“Courage expands one’s life, while fear diminishes it. The choice is ours,” Anderson said in her closing remarks, echoing a famous quote from French-born author Anais Nin. “As we look at others across the room tonight, be kind, because we’re all in this together, and all of us fight some invisible battle.”
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the liver, according to the World Health Organization.
The potentially life-threatening disease is typically spread through contact with an infected person’s blood, including through “unsafe injections and procedures in health care, unscreened blood transfusions, sharing of needles and syringes among people who inject drugs and sexual practices that lead to exposure to blood,” according to the WHO.
Most individuals who are infected initially do not have symptoms. Symptoms can take two weeks to six months to manifest after infection and may include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine and yellowing of the skin or eyes, the global health organization states.
Hepatitis C infection can often go undiagnosed for years, if not decades, due to lack of symptoms. For those unknowingly living with hepatitis C long-term, they can develop signs of serious liver damage or liver cancer years later, according to the WHO.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that “many people with hepatitis C don’t look or feel sick, so might not know they have the virus.”
Between 2017 and 2020, the CDC estimates between 2.4 million and 4 million people in the U.S. had hepatitis C.
“Most people can be cured of hepatitis C with timely treatment,” the agency states.
Treatment typically involves eight to 12 weeks of oral medication, according to the CDC, with more than 95% of patients being cured of the disease, “usually without side effects.”
There is currently no vaccine available for hepatitis C.
Dr. Jennifer Miao, a board-certified cardiologist at Yale New Haven Health and a fellow in the ABC News Medical Unit, contributed to this report.
