Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton’s BLACKBERRY trailer tells the true story of the creators of The Blackberry

IFC has released the trailer for the upcoming film blue raspberry, which tells the true story of the rise and fall of the people and company that created the wildly popular BlackBerry device. The film was adapted from the book Losing Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Amazing Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff.

blue raspberry tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men who charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone. The film is described as “a whirlwind ride through a fiercely competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speed.”

Jay Baruchel assumes the role of Mike Lazaridis e Glen Howton plays Jim Balsillie, Matt Johnson is Doug Fregin, and he is also the protagonist Michael Ironside, Saul Rubinek, Cary Elwes, Rich summer, SungWon ChoAND Michele Giroux.

Here is the full synopsis:

Two mismatched entrepreneurs — egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and ruthless businessman Jim Balsillie — joined forces in an effort that would become a worldwide hit in just over a decade. The device that one invented and the other sold was the BlackBerry, an addictive cell phone that changed the way the world worked, played and communicated. But just as BlackBerry was soaring to new heights, it also began to get lost in the fog of smartphone wars, management indecision, and outside distractions, eventually leading to the failure of one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and consumer world. business. .

BlackBerry is directed by Matt Johnson (The Dirty Ones AND Operation Avalanche) from a screenplay written by Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller. The film will be released in select theaters on May 12, 2023.