Netflix has released the official trailer for Ink, Danny Boyle’s new film about the birth of modern tabloid journalism — and it puts Guy Pearce front and centre as a young Rupert Murdoch. The trailer arrived on Tuesday, 10 November, posted to the Netflix YouTube channel in the morning and announced through Netflix’s Tudum platform the same day.
The film dramatises Murdoch’s 1969 purchase of The Sun newspaper, a deal that reshaped the British press. Jack O’Connell plays newspaper editor Larry Lamb opposite Pearce as Murdoch, with Claire Foy co-starring as Jules Davies. Boyle directs from a screenplay by James Graham, adapting Graham’s own Tony Award-winning 2017 stage play of the same name.
A Venice opener with awards ambitions
Ink opened the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2026, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 15 September. Early critical reaction has been warm: the film holds a 73% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 66 critic reviews, and runs 116 minutes.
The release plan is a classic awards-season rollout. Ink will open in a limited theatrical run in select theatres from 11 December 2026, before streaming on Netflix in the US and Latin America from 8 January 2027.
Why the story still matters
The 1969 takeover of The Sun was the moment a struggling daily became the template for the modern tabloid — big headlines, celebrity coverage and a populist voice that other papers soon copied. Boyle’s film turns that boardroom and newsroom battle into a period drama, with Pearce’s Murdoch facing off against O’Connell’s Lamb over what a newspaper should be.
For Netflix, the staggered release is a clear signal of intent: a December cinema bow followed by a January streaming debut keeps Ink in the awards conversation through the winter. The trailer’s arrival this week gives audiences their first extended look at Boyle’s take on one of the most consequential deals in media history.
Film fans have had a strong run of trailers and releases this season — from the record-breaking opening of Godzilla Minus Zero to the Netflix release of Colleen Hoover’s Reminders of Him — and Ink now joins a crowded end-of-year slate.
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