{
  "id": 13083426,
  "title": "From Zuck to Musk: Big Tech’s Scandals and Scammers Are Coming to the Big Screen",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/from-zuck-to-musk-big-techs-scandals-and-scammers-are-coming-to-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-09T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNET",
    "slug": "cnet",
    "url": "https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/hollywood-movies-ai-tech-zuckerberg-musk/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This fall, Hollywood is bringing to the big screen several films that scrutinize prominent figures in the tech industry, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While apocalyptic tales and human-versus-machine narratives have always been popular, there's a growing interest in depicting the scandals and scheming within Big Tech.\n\nThe Social Reckoning, directed and written by Aaron Sorkin, tells the story of Zuckerberg's social media empire, drawing from the 2021 Wall Street Journal article \"The Facebook Files\" and leaked documents from former Facebook engineer Frances Haugen. Playing Zuckerberg himself is Jeremy Strong, the star of Succession. Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, and Betty Gilpin also star in the film.\n\nMeanwhile, director Alex Gibney's documentary Musk aims to debunk the myth surrounding Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and the world's richest man. Released on October 16, the movie is facing backlash from Musk and has been barred from promotion on several social media platforms. However, it will stream on HBO Max next year.\n\nElizabeth Holmes' fraudulent blood-testing company, Theranos, is the focus of You Can See Everything, a nearly three-hour-long documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The film, which has garnered significant buzz, offers a psychological horror perspective on Holmes' life and family just before her prison sentence.\n\nArtificial, a biopic about OpenAI's Sam Altman, is directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. The film explores Altman's tumultuous time at OpenAI, including his firing and subsequent rehiring. After being originally distributed by Amazon MGM Studios, Neon took over the project.\n\nFinally, AMC's The Audacity and Netflix's documentary The AI Doc or How I Became an Apocaloptimist delve into the Silicon Valley tech bubble and the rise of artificial intelligence, respectively. AMC will also premiere The Altruists, an eight-episode true-crime series about the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency empire, FTX, on November 19.",
  "summary": "Here are the movies to keep an “AI” on through the rest of the year.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}