, 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. 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.
Lindsay Berra “has been everywhere” on local media, podcasts, at games, said SPC co-president Tom Bernard. “She wants her grandfather’s legacy to be known, and it’s a way bigger legacy than what he’s been known for. His military career was astounding, his relationship with his family. This is a guy who went out for dinner with Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. He lived an amazing life. And you see what a good person he was.
In a sign that promotion may be getting tricker for indie films amid the WGA strike, the writer-actor-director skipped the press line at the movie’s premiere in LA and canceled some other appearances due to the guild action. He was onBlackberry on 450 screens. The true story of the meteoric rise and sudden collapse, thanks to Apple, of the world’s first smartphone. 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.
Johnson plays Fregin. Glenn Howerton is Jim Balsillie, the ruthless executive who came in and really launched the company. It’s a great business story, tech story, human story. “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.Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry.