Overview
- Ink opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday and Studiocanal released the film’s first teaser ahead of tonight’s world premiere.
- The film is directed by Danny Boyle from a screenplay by James Graham and stars Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch, Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb, and Claire Foy as Jules Davies, a composite Fleet Street reporter.
- Netflix holds U.S. and Latin American rights and will stream Ink on January 8, 2027, after a limited theatrical run that begins December 11 and a UK theatrical window around January 8, 2027.
- At the Venice press conference Boyle said he avoided a one-dimensional portrait of Murdoch and used the film to warn that tech companies and AI risk replacing independent journalism.
- Ink adapts Graham’s 2017 play to dramatize Murdoch’s 1969 takeover of The Sun and the rise of tabloid practices, using recreated newsroom production to link those origins to wider changes in news culture.