Netflix has dated its most recent acquisition “Ink,” Academy Award winner Danny Boyle‘s incendiary drama about the birth of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid empire.
Variety can exclusively reveal, the film will open in select theaters Dec. 11 before landing on Netflix on Jan. 8 in the U.S. and Latin America. Alongside the dating, the streamer has unveiled a new image from the film which shows Oscar nominee Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch.
The timing drops “Ink” squarely into the thick of awards season. The film will have its world premiere as the opening night selection of the Venice Film Festival, where it will compete for the Golden Lion, before making its Canadian debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Starring Jack O’Connell, Claire Foy and Guy Pearce, “Ink” is based on the Tony-nominated play of the same name by James Graham, who adapted his own work for the screen. Pearce plays a brash, 30-something Rupert Murdoch, with O’Connell as editor Larry Lamb, the working-class newspaper journalist who helped him remake The Sun into a populist juggernaut.
Boyle directs from Graham’s screenplay. The two-time Oscar winner, who took home directing and best picture honors for “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) and most recently reunited with screenwriter Alex Garland on “28 Years Later,” produces “Ink” alongside Tracey Seaward, Tessa Ross and Michael Ellenberg.
