{"id":83029,"date":"2023-03-16T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/blackberry-movie-trailer-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-1st-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:26:12","slug":"blackberry-film-trailer-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-1st-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/blackberry-film-trailer-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-1st-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018BlackBerry\u2019 film trailer: The rise and fall of the world\u2019s 1st smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cRemember that phone that everyone owned before an iPhone? This is how they got started and how they got destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s how director Matt Johnson describes his film BlackBerry<\/em>, co-written with producer Matthew Miller. The pair of Torontonians are telling the uniquely Canadian story of the world\u2019s first smartphone, the BlackBerry<\/a> system, created by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion<\/a> (RIM).<\/p>\n

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In its heyday, the BlackBerry was in all places \u2014 the undisputed king of cellphones, particularly amongst businesspeople. But a handful of years later, the corporate was virtually worn out fully.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecounting the Canadian company\u2019s humble yet chaotic rise to market dominance, BlackBerry<\/em> is a darkly comedic telling of the tragic tale of a Canadian company that revolutionized the way we communicate, before swiftly plummeting into obsolescence,\u201d in keeping with manufacturing firm Elevation Pictures.<\/p>\n

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Canadian actor Jay Baruchel dons silver hair to play Mike Lazaridis, the mind behind the BlackBerry, alongside Johnson, who performs his enterprise accomplice and greatest pal Douglas Fregin.<\/p>\n

The trailer begins with the pair of co-founders screeching right into a parking zone in 1996, late for a gathering with investor Jim Balsillie, who would ultimately agree to affix the corporate with the cash and enterprise know-how wanted to promote their invention to the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cOk, picture a cellphone and an email machine all in one thing,\u201d Fregin pitches Balsillie, performed by Glenn Howerton of It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u00a0<\/em>fame. \u201cThere is a free, wireless internet signal all across North America and nobody has figured out how to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The trailer teases the chaotic behind-the-scenes story of how the RIM workforce developed the prototype of the BlackBerry and ultimately introduced it to market, the place it exploded in recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeemingly overnight the three men revolutionize the way people work, communicate and connect. Celebrities, politicians and businessmen are now addicted to their Blackberrys,\u201d writes Elevation Pictures.<\/p>\n