{"id":1092934,"date":"2026-07-16T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1092934\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:04:17","slug":"danny-boyles-ink-to-open-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1092934\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle\u2019s \u2018Ink\u2019 To Open Venice Film Festival\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDanny Boyle\u2019s Rupert Murdoch biopic Ink will open the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venice\" data-tag=\"venice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venice<\/a> Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film, starring Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will screen on 2 September in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBoyle directs the feature from a screenplay written by James Graham (Dear England), based on his Tony-nominated play. O\u2019Connell stars as The Sun newspaper editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBoyle produces alongside Tessa Ross (Conclave) and Michael Ellenberg (The Morning Show). Ink reunites Boyle and Ross following their collaboration on Slumdog Millionaire. Tracey Seaward (The Two Popes) also produces. Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin, Tonia Davis, Zoe Edwards, James Graham, and Sudie Smyth are executive producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnnouncing the title, Venice head Alberto Barbera described the film as an \u201caccount of publisher Rupert Murdoch\u2019s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain\u2019s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival, The Mirror.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI would like to thank StudioCanal, Media Res, and House Productions for granting us the honor of opening the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venice-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venice-film-festival\" data-tag=\"venice-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venice Film Festival<\/a> with such a highly anticipated film,\u201d Barbera continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStudiocanal\u00a0fully\u00a0financed the film and\u00a0will release\u00a0it\u00a0theatrically in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Poland, the Benelux, Australia and NZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlwin H. K\u00fcchler\u00a0(Steve Jobs)\u00a0is DOP,\u00a0Gareth Pugh &amp;\u00a0Carson McColl\u00a0(28 Years Later)\u00a0are Production and Costume Designers,\u00a0Fin Oates\u00a0(How to Have Sex, Warfare)\u00a0is\u00a0Editor,\u00a0Gail Stevens &amp; Rebecca Farhall\u00a0(28 Years Later)\u00a0cast the film,\u00a0and music is by\u00a0Daniel Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVenice runs from September 2 to September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle\u2019s Rupert Murdoch biopic Ink will open the Venice Film Festival.\u00a0 The film, starring Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1092935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15,22961,126619],"class_list":["post-1092934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-venice","tag-venice-film-festival"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116930036908979078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}