StudioCanal has set the UK & Irish theatrical release date for Danny Boyle’s forthcoming newsroom drama INK – the Manchester writer and director’s latest will release in cinemas on Friday 8 January 2027.
Recently announced by La Biennale di Venezia (organiser of the Venice Film Festival) INK, a StudioCanal, Media Res and House Productions film, as this year’s opening film, will have its world premiere screening in competition 2 September, 2026 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema..
Academy and BAFTA award winner Boyle (28 Years Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), needs little introduction regionally having directed the opening production for Manchester’s Aviva Studios, served as co-chair of Manchester Met’s School of Art and Design (SoDA) advisory board, taken over chunks of Scotland and the North East to shoot hits including 28 Years Later, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave, as well as, albeit less locally, handled the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Boyle directs INK which is based on the Tony-nominated play by multi-Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham (Dear England, Sherwood, Brexit), Graham has also written the screenplay.
Stockport native Claire Foy (The Crown, Season of the Witch) is among the lead cast, alongside BAFTA winner Jack O’Connell (Starred Up, 71, Back To Black, Sinners) and Academy Award nominated Guy Pearce (Memento, The Brutalist, LA Confidential).
O’Connell stars as The Sun editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch, while Foy is Jules Davies in “an explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news – one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today.”
Boyle described the film as: “A script by James Graham I felt compelled and privileged to make. 1969 – the year we first walked on the moon – and the year Rupert Murdoch & Larry Lamb launched a newspaper that was to change the world far more. Long before Fox News, click bait, and Truth Social; decades before Twitter, Facebook, Google & Only Fans, these two men created a new tabloid which against all the odds became the biggest selling newspaper in the world. Cheeky, Irreverent, daring: The super soaraway Sun challenged the establishment and remade our world for the modern era. A script by James Graham I felt compelled and privileged to make.”
Boyle produces with Tessa Ross (Conclave, The Iron Claw, Zone of Interest) and Michael Ellenberg (The Morning Show, Pachinko.) INK reunites Boyle and Ross following their collaboration on Slumdog Millionaire. Tracey Seaward (The Two Popes, Philomena, Pistol) also produces.
Media Res optioned James Graham’s play of the same name directed by Rupert Goold, and StudioCanal fully financed INK handling worldwide sales. Netflix has US and Latin America rights.
