The most famous newspaper war of the 20th century is coming to American living rooms. Ink, Danny Boyle’s film about Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Sun, opens in select theatres on Friday 11 December and arrives on Netflix in the United States and Latin America on Friday 8 January 2027. A new trailer went up alongside the date this week.
For US viewers the gap is short: four weeks from the first theatrical screenings to the stream. Our guide to how long films stay in cinemas before streaming explains why that window varies so much; for Ink, anyone who wants the period detail on a big screen has under a month to find it.
A Fleet Street story with a starry cast
The film is set in London in 1969. Jack O’Connell plays Larry Lamb, the editor hired to turn a failing broadsheet into a brash tabloid, and Guy Pearce plays Rupert Murdoch, the proprietor who bought it. Claire Foy plays Jules Davies. Together, the two mavericks set out to topple Britain’s press elite by giving readers something louder.
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James Graham wrote the screenplay, adapting his own Tony-winning stage play of the same name. Boyle, the Academy Award winner behind Slumdog Millionaire and Steve Jobs, directs. The film runs 116 minutes.
Producers include Boyle, Tracey Seaward, Tessa Ross and Michael Ellenberg, and the production companies are House Productions, Media Res and STUDIOCANAL, which fully financed the film. It is a British, French and American co-production.
From the Lido to the living room
Ink has already had its big night. It opened the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday 2 September, a world premiere in the main competition at the Sala Grande on the Lido. Festival director Alberto Barbera described it as “an account of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun.” Boyle, who has visited the Biennale many times, called the opening slot “my baptism at the film festival.”
Netflix picked up the film for the United States and Latin America, while STUDIOCANAL handles the theatrical release in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Poland and Benelux, with Lucky Red releasing it in Italy. That split means the streaming date applies to American subscribers only, and viewers elsewhere should look to cinemas first.
Ink lands in a busy stretch for Netflix’s period drama, with The Age of Innocence also on the way. For a film this rooted in British newspaper history, the US stream may well be where most American viewers meet it.
Where to watch
- Ink, select theatres, from Friday 11 December 2026 (theatrical dates announced by Netflix)
- Ink, Netflix, US, streaming from Friday 8 January 2027
- Ink, cinemas, UK, release by STUDIOCANAL, date not yet announced
- Ink, cinemas, Australia and New Zealand, release by STUDIOCANAL, date not yet announced
- Ink, Canada, no release date or platform announced
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