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StudioCanal Sets UK Theatrical Release Date For Danny Boyle’s Ink
The People Who Changed The Face Of News Forever
StudioCanal sets UK & Irish theatrical release date for Danny Boyle’s INK, releasing in cinemas on Friday 8 January 2027…
Recently announced by La Biennale di Venezia INK, a STUDOCANAL, MEDIA RES and House Productions film, will have its world premiere screening in competition 2 September 2026 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia) on the opening night of the 83rdBiennale Cinema.
Academy and BAFTA award winning Danny Boyle (28 Years Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) 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 written the screenplay.
BAFTA winner Jack O’Connell (Starred Up, 71, Back To Black, Sinners), Academy Award nominated Guy Pearce (Memento, The Brutalist, LA Confidential) and BAFTA nominated Claire Foy (The Crown, All of us Strangers, The Electrical life of Louis Wain) star in INK, 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.
O’Connell stars as THE SUN editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.
Danny 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.
STUDIOCANAL fully financed INK handling worldwide sales.
NETFLIX has US and Latin America rights.
About STUDIOCANAL (a CANAL+ Company)
STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+’s in-house studio, is Europe’s leading film and television studio.
Through its in-house operations and network of 23 production companies across Europe and the US, STUDIOCANAL finances, produces and distributes around 100 films per year, and produces more than 20 premium local and international series.
STUDIOCANAL owns one of the world’s most prestigious film libraries, including the largest catalogue of European films, with nearly 10,000 titles from 60 countries spanning a century of cinema. Since 2020, the studio has invested €25 million in the 4K restoration of 1,000 films, including Breathless, The Graduate, Terminator 2, and Love Actually.
Building on the global success of Paddington, STUDIOCANAL is scaling its franchise model through three new labels: STUDIOCANAL Stories, focused on adapting literary hits for film and TV; STUDIOCANAL Kids & Family, dedicated to building children’s entertainment franchises, and STUDIOCANAL ON STAGE, specialising in adapting films for live theatre.
ABOUT MEDIA RES
Media Res is an Emmy®-nominated television studio and motion picture production company that develops, produces and finances premium content for global markets. Following an investment from Redbird IMI, the company is expanding its partnership with first-class creative artists, networks and streaming services. Founded by Michael Ellenberg, Media Res’s current slate includes the fourth season of the Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-winning Apple TV+ drama series THE MORNING SHOW; the second season of Apple TV+’s acclaimed series PACHINKO, based on the international bestseller, which has received honors from the Peabody Awards, American Film Institute and Critics Choice Awards; Peacock’s upcoming comedy series THE MINIATURE WIFE, executive produced by Emmy® nominee Elizabeth Banks, Emmy® winner Matthew Macfadyen and Greg Mottola and starring the former two; Netflix’s upcoming corporate thriller THUMBLITE starring and executive produced by Rosamund Pike and Apple TV+’s upcoming drama THE DEALER, starring and executive produced by Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Academy Award nominee Adam Driver, set in the glittering world of the high-end art market.
Past projects include the absurdist comedy I’M A VIRGO, written and directed by Boots Riley, on Amazon Prime Video; the climate change series EXTRAPOLATIONS from Scott Z. Burns, on Apple TV+, starring Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, and Marion Cotillard; and SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, for HBO, based on the classic Ingmar Bergman series.
ABOUT HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Launched in 2016 by Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell, House Productions brings the best of film and television together to create quality storytelling, be it on the big or small screen. In December 2021, BBC Studios acquired the company which now sits within the global content company’s portfolio of indies.
The company’s film slate includes multi-award winning director Edward Berger’s CONCLAVE, the Academy Award winning adaptation from Peter Straughan of the Robert Harris best-selling conspiracy thriller, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow; BIRD from award-winning director, Andrea Arnold, which stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and BIFA nominated newcomer Nykiya Adams; STARVE ACRE, a stylistic modern horror, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, from BAFTA Award nominated writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark; award-winning feature THE IRON CLAW, written and directed by Sean Durkin and starring Zac Efron, Maura Tierney and Lily James; and the BAFTA nominated, psychological thriller feature THE WONDER from Sebastián Lelio, a co-production with Element Pictures for Netflix.
House Productions’ recent TV productions include two series of the BAFTA nominated and critically acclaimed BBC One drama SHERWOOD, created and written by multi-award winning and acclaimed playwright James Graham and starring David Morrissey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville, which has been commissioned for a third series; Stephen Butchard’s THE GOOD MOTHERS, a Star Original for Disney+ that won the inaugural Best Series Award at Berlinale 2023, and offers a unique twist on the crime genre with the mafia seen entirely from the women’s perspectives; SIX FOUR, an intense crime thriller, set and filmed in Glasgow, starring Kevin McKidd, from award winning writer Gregory Burke for ITVX and ITV1; and they have just finished filming with award-winning director Charlotte Regan (SCRAPPER) on her new comedy, MINT for BBC.
The company is also behind EMMY Nominated BREXIT – THE UNCIVIL WAR, a single film written by James Graham, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rory Kinnear; critically acclaimed LIFE AFTER LIFE, an adaptation of the Kate Atkinson bestseller from Bash Doran, directed by John Crowley and starring Thomasin McKenzie; and TRIGONOMETRY, from Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods which first aired on BBC TWO and iPlayer in spring 2020, having sold across the world and included in the launch slate of HBO Max in the US.
