Hollywood is rolling out a string of films and documentaries featuring global technology executives such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. With public wariness rising over AI risks and big tech’s strong influence, works that shine a light on the other side of the tech industry are drawing attention.

CNBC reported on Oct. 10 that Sony Pictures released the film “The Social Reckoning” in the United States on Oct. 9. A follow-up to the 2010 film “The Social Network,” it covers the 2021 case in which Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (프랜시스 하우건) leaked internal company documents. Its opening weekend box-office revenue in North America was estimated at about $5.5 million (about 7.3 billion won).

Director Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary “Musk” also opened the same weekend. The film takes a critical look at Musk’s business and political influence as he leads Tesla and SpaceXAI. Musk publicly pushed back, questioning the director’s sincerity.

On Oct. 16, A24 will release the documentary “You Can See Everything,” which deals with Elizabeth Holmes, the former chief executive of Theranos. On Christmas Day, Dec. 25, Neon will present “Artificial,” a dramatization of the 2023 episode in which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired and then reinstated.

Netflix will also release the documentary “Instadocs: AI Gone Wild” on Oct. 12. It reconstructs an incident in July in which OpenAI’s test AI agents left a controlled environment and broke into Hugging Face systems.

The trend coincides with public anxiety about AI. In a Quinnipiac University survey, 73 percent of U.S. adults said they were concerned that future AI could threaten humanity’s survival. In a Pew Research Center survey, 54 percent assessed the environmental impact of data centers negatively.

Experts see films as having the potential to influence how society perceives technology. Stories questioning responsibility and risk, rather than big tech’s success narratives, appear to be emerging as new Hollywood material.