Netflix Buys Boyle's 'Ink' Before Venice Premiere
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- Netflix acquired Danny Boyle's thriller "Ink" — starring Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch alongside Jack O'Connell and Claire Foy — for U.S. and Latin American distribution ahead of its September 2 world premiere as the opening-night film of the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
- Ink is based on James Graham's Tony-nominated play, which Graham himself adapted into the screenplay; the production is billed as "an explosive cinematic rollercoaster" about visionaries who created "a new kind of news."
- Danny Boyle produced the film alongside Tracey Seaward, Tessa Ross, and Michael Ellenberg for Media Res, with executive producers including Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, and Joe Naftalin from Studiocanal.
- Studiocanal, paired with Media Res and House Productions, handled worldwide sales and negotiated the Netflix deal alongside WME Independent, and will release "Ink" theatrically in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, and New Zealand.
Why it matters: Netflix's take of the 83rd Venice Film Festival's opening-night selection comes with a theatrical-first window via Studiocanal in eight countries — UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, and New Zealand — before streaming in the U.S. and Latin America, preserving a cinema release for a film dramatizing the rise of tabloid news.
