Overview
- The film had its world premiere as the opening-night selection at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2, 2026, and Netflix and StudioCanal released a first-look teaser ahead of the screening.
- Guy Pearce plays Rupert Murdoch, Jack O’Connell plays editor Larry Lamb and Claire Foy plays Jules Davies, a fictional composite of women who worked at The Sun.
- Pearce said Elisabeth Murdoch told him her father was “very happy” with the casting, though reports note Rupert Murdoch had not yet seen the film.
- Boyle and writer James Graham say the film resists simple villainy and instead examines how Murdoch and Lamb’s methods reshaped news culture, with Boyle warning about tech and AI posing new risks to journalism.
- Netflix will release Ink in select U.S. theaters on Dec. 11, 2026 before streaming on Jan. 8, 2027, while StudioCanal will handle theatrical runs in the U.K. and many other territories with a January 2027 rollout.