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Alex Gibney has made films about Enron, Scientology, torture, WikiLeaks, and Theranos. Now Musk. The man's filmography is a list of things that were fine until someone looked. His next subject will be the audience.

iPhone Duo preorders open October 16, the same day as the four-hour Musk documentary. Two thousand dollars for a phone that folds, four hours for a man who won't. Same afternoon. Same audience. Same regret.

Alex Gibney's Musk documentary premiered in Venice at nearly four hours. Four hours. The man's already bought a social network, a government, and a trillion dollars. Now he's taken a whole afternoon.

Apple's $2,000 folding phone, a $130 million witch movie, a 38-date Oasis tour with a waitlist, and a $5,000 vote bonus. Everything this month is on a payment plan except the war, and that's on your grandkids' plan.

There's a Sam Altman biopic and a four-hour Musk documentary in the same month. Hollywood ran out of villains it could name and started with the ones who could sue.

The Venice Film Festival premiered a Musk documentary and an Altman biopic in the same week. The most glamorous film festival on earth spent it on two men who think movies are a waste of compute.