Trailer For Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton's BLACKBERRY Tells The True Story of the Creators of The Blackberry

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

BlackBerry tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that 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 ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds."

Jay Baruchel takes on the role of Mike Lazaridis and Glenn Howerton plays Jim Balsillie, Matt Johnson is Doug Fregin, and it also stars Michael Ironside, Saul Rubinek, Cary Elwes, Rich Sommer, SungWon Cho, and Michelle Giroux.

Here’s the full synopsis:

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The device that one invented and the other sold was the BlackBerry, an addictive mobile phone that changed the way the world worked, played and communicated. But just as BlackBerry was rising to new peaks, it also started losing its way through the fog of Smartphone wars, management indecision and outside distractions, eventually leading to the breakdown of one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and business worlds.

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