{"id":3749,"date":"2026-07-16T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:39:15","slug":"danny-boyles-rupert-murdoch-drama-ink-to-open-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle\u2019s Rupert Murdoch Drama \u2018Ink\u2019 to Open Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nDanny Boyle\u2018s <em>Ink<\/em>, a drama about Rupert Murdoch\u2019s rise to media power in the world of the U.K. tabloids, will open this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3747\">The Real Winners and Losers of the 2026 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Ink<\/em> will have its world premiere in competition in Venice, opening the 83rd festival on Sept. 2. <\/p>\n<p>\nGuy Pearce stars as Murdoch in the biographical drama, from playwright James Graham, who adapted his Tony-nominated play of the same name for the screen. Jack O\u2019Connell (<em>Sinners<\/em>) plays Larry Lamb, hired by Murdoch to run his new British tabloid <em>The Sun<\/em> and transform it into a dark force in British media. Claire Foy plays Jules Davies.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis will mark Boyle\u2019s first time on the Lido. \u201cThis is my baptism at the film festival,\u201d Boyle said, calling it \u201ca huge honor to be in a city of such extraordinary art and opening this great festival with my new film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Ink<\/em> is set in 1969, the year Murdoch and Lamb launched <em>The Sun<\/em>, a paper that, with it far-right political reporting and populist rabble rousing, became hugely successful and set the template for new media era.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cLong before Fox News, click bait, and Truth Social; decades before Twitter, Facebook, Google &amp; Only Fans, these 2 men created a new tabloid which against all the odds became the biggest selling newspaper in the world,\u201d said Boyle. \u201cCheeky, irreverent, daring: The super soaraway <em>Sun<\/em> challenged the establishment and remade our world for the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3745\">Peter Thiel\u2019s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It\u2019s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tVenice artistic director Alberto Barberan praised the collaboration in <em>Ink<\/em> of \u201can Oscar-winning director, one of the leading playwrights on the London theater scene, and three of the most acclaimed actors in contemporary British cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBoyle produced the film with Tessa Ross, his producer on the Oscar-winning <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>, and Tracey Seaward (<em>The Two Popes<\/em>, <em>Philomena<\/em>). The film was produced by Studiocanal, Media Res and House Productions, with Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin executive producers for Studiocanal. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tStudiocanal is handling worldwide sales, and is co-representing domestic with WME Independent. Studiocanal will also directly handle the theatrical release of the film across several of their operating territories, including the U.K., France, Germany, Poland, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 2026 Venice Film Festival runs Sept. 2-12. Venice will announce its full 2026 lineup on July 23. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3744\">Jon Bernthal on \u2018Odyssey\u2019 Battles, Counseling Spider-Man and Always Going Big: \u201cEmbarrass the F*** Out of Yourself\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy star in the drama about Rupert Murdoch&#039;s rise to power through the British tabloids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[713,1664,2651,2652,2,2653,1668,1669],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-claire-foy","tag-danny-boyle","tag-guy-pearce","tag-ink","tag-international","tag-jack-oconnell","tag-venice-2026","tag-venice-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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