“Imagine a cell phone that could also send emails.” Welcome to 2002, the year the very first smartphone in the world was marketed: the BlackBerry. the screen Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, and tell us, in a kind of hybrid comedy-drama biopic, the famous “crackberry”.Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton play Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, respectively, who in 1996 discover an untapped wireless network in North America that will give birth to the BlackBerry. They will build a veritable empire, a symbol of power from Wall Street to Hollywood, but after their mad rise, the house of cards will collapse just as spectacularly with the arrival on the market of the first iPhone.See also on KonbiniScheduled in theaters American on May 12, BlackBerry does not yet have a release date in France.
