Comedy On The Rise & Fall Of ‘BlackBerry’ Clicks: Director Matt Johnson Says The Device “Has Some Magic To It” – Specialty Box Office

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In a rare weekend with fewer new studio wide releases, IFC Films had a one-two punch at the box office with Matt Johnson’s film BlackBerry grossing $473k nationwide in 450 theaters, for a U.S. per …

grossing $473k nationwide in 450 theaters, for a U.S. per theater average of $1.05k and cracking the top ten on Friday. It will gross an estimated $740k in North America this weekend, with Elevation Pictures handling Canada.’s Jay Baruchel is Mike Lazaridus, the brains behind BlackBerry with his laid back best friend and co-founder Douglas Fregin, played by Johnson.

The BlackBerry Storm, which came out in 2008, the same year as the iPhone 3G, was one of the biggest failures of a consumer device of all time. “The book is piece of journalism. I would say the authors would say the book is not funny at all,” he said. “But what I was reading between the lines is comedy.”

 

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