![]() The film premiered in Berlin, Deadline review here. Based on the 2016 nonfiction book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry. “They were so convinced of their product’s superiority that it just didn’t make sense to them that some dark horse like the iPhone could ever knock them off their perch,” Johnson tells Deadline. It’s a great business story, tech story, human story. Glenn Howerton ( It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) is Jim Balsillie, the ruthless executive who came in and really launched the company. At its peak, the device had over 50% of the North American market and 20% of the global smartphone market, sold over 50 million units a year, and was referred to as the “CrackBerry.” Star Jay Baruchel’s Lazaridis was literally beyond positive that no one would ever want the weird, keypad-less iPhone Steve Jobs introduced in 2007. This is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley from a perch in Canada, where best friends Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin founded the Waterloo-based Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry in 1984. The true story of the meteoric rise and sudden collapse, thanks to Apple, of the world’s first smartphone. In April of 2013, during a concert in Perth, Australia, Shawn confirmed that the song is a murder. IFC Films opens Matt Johnson’s Blackberry on 450 screens. Sunny Came Home is about a woman named Sunny who burns her house down to escape her past. ![]() The doc opened on his birthday - he would have been 98 on May 12. The D-Day veteran, devoted husband, father and friend, passed away in 2015. Berra’s granddaughter Lindsay Berra, with Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly, Bob Costas, Vin Scully, Billy Crystal and others are loving guides to Berra’s unparalleled accomplishments on the baseball diamond (10 World Series rings, three MVP awards, 18 All-Star Game appearances, caught the only perfect game in World Series history), and off. The intimate portrait of a baseball genius, master of aphorism, pitchman and endearing human being, Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, premiered at Tribeca last year (100% Certified Fresh). Sony Pictures Classics opens Sean Mullin’s Yogi Berra documentary It Ain’t Over on 100 screens in NY and LA with a big regional push for the legendary Yankee, including complimentary plus-one tickets on Thursday and Sunday at Regal, AMC and City Cinemas in the New York Tri-State area. ![]() A beloved ballplayer and an iconic consumer device join a Hollywood satire by Charlie Day, an Emanuele Crialese film with Penelope Cruz and debuts from Sundance and Venice in a potentially strong specialty weekend that will test the appetite for indie film with no new franchise wide releases.
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