Recently, Amazon MGM Studios dropped a project titled Artificial. Why? It's against Open AI co-founder Sam Altman. "The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February, which included a $50 billion investment," Variety reported.
There is a narrative that the US-based film industry has stopped making political movies/web series due to such "self-censorship fears". However, others say that political films have been made.
A recent Hollywood critic gave some examples: Projects like The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, and Adam McKay's Vice (a biting biopic of Dick Cheney) directly dissect American governance. Regular releases of unfiltered biographical dramas, such as Oppenheimer (which heavily critiqued the military-industrial complex and McCarthy-era politics) and The Apprentice (the biographical drama tracking Donald Trump's early career) happen. Films like Dark Waters exposed chemical cover-ups, while Dumb Money took aim at Wall Street hedge funds. The Social Network is deeply critical of Mark Zuckerberg.
