Netflix has acquired Danny Boyle’s Ink for the US and Latin America.
The deal comes a day after the film was confirmed to open September’s Venice Film Festival in competition.
Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy star, with Boyle directing from a script by James Graham based on his 2017 play of the same title about Rupert Murdoch’s early days in the UK newspaper business with editor Larry Lamb.
Boyle produced the film with Tracey Seaward, Tessa Ross of the UK’s House Productions and Michael Ellenberg for Media Res. The executive producers are Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin for Studiocanal, Tonia Davis, Zoë Edwards, James Graham, and Sudie Smyth for Studiocanal.
Studiocanal, which fully financed Ink and handled worldwide sales, is releasing the film theatrically in the UK, France, Germany, Italy (through Lucky Red), Poland, Benelux, Australia and New Zealand.
The Netflix deal was handled by WME Independent and StudioCanal.
Netflix did not say whether the film will get a theatrical release in the US.
Commenting on the film’s selection for Venice earlier this week Boyle said Ink tells how Murdoch and Lamb “created a new tabloid which, against all the odds, became the biggest-selling newspaper in the world. Cheeky, irreverent, daring: The super soaraway Sun challenged the establishment and remade our world for the modern era.”
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