Director
Danny Boyle
Music (original)
Daniel Pemberton
Cast
Jack O'Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy, Blake Harrison
Edition 2026
116'
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2026
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Historical, Drama, Biography, Thriller
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
English
Set against the rise of tabloid journalism, Ink follows Rupert Murdoch and his transformation of the British press. Blending newsroom drama with a nation captivated by scandal, Danny Boyle examines how media power shapes public taste. A stellar cast turns this portrait of influence, ambition and spectacle into compelling cinema.
Rupert Murdoch laid the foundations for his media empire in Australia, but the major growth came in the United Kingdom with the acquisition of The Sun in 1969. He turned it into a tabloid, and together with editor Larry Lamb he focused on sensation and sex — such as the Page 3 girl, a full-page photo of a young topless woman. It's all there — along with an infamous kidnapping that caused an uproar in England at the time — in Danny Boyle's Ink (Trainspotting, 1996), with a star cast: Guy Pearce as Murdoch, Jack O'Connell as Lamb, and Claire Foy as a fictional journalist at The Sun. Ink, the opening film of the Venice Film Festival, is a favourite for the Oscars. In the words of Time critic Stephanie Zacharek: "Ink works both as a fictionalised snapshot of a lost world and as a forensic examination of what happens when you give people what they want, rather than what they don't know they want."
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Credits
Directors
Danny Boyle
Music (original)
Daniel Pemberton
Cast
Jack O'Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy, Blake Harrison
Scenario
James Graham
Director of Photography
Alwin H. Küchler
Editors
Fin Oates, Fin Oates
Producers
Danny Boyle, Michael Ellenberg, Tessa Ross, Tracey Seaward
Sales agent
Studio Canal
Production studios
House Productions
Distributor
Kinepolis Film Distribution
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America, United Kingdom, France
Screenplay based on
"Ink" (James Graham)
Year
2026
Filmography
Danny Boyle
Ink (2026), 28 Years Later (2025), Yesterday (2019), Darcey Bussell's New Dance (2018), T2 Trainspotting (2017), Steve Jobs (2015), Trance (2013), National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011), 127 Hours (2010), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alien Love Triangle (2008), Sunshine (2007), Millions (2004), 28 Days Later... (2002), Strumpet (2001), Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001), The Beach (2000), A Life Less Ordinary (1997), Trainspotting (1996), Shallow Grave (1994), Monkeys (1989), The Nightwatch (1989), The Venus de Milo Instead (1987), Scout (1987)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
