The story of Canada's tarnished pocket gem the BlackBerry is headed for the movies.
Producers say filming has wrapped on a feature-length production that recounts the rise and fall of the device — once affectionately known as the CrackBerry among its most obsessed users.
"BlackBerry" is adapted from the non-fiction book "Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry," written by Globe and Mail reporters Sean Silcoff and Jacquie McNish. RIM was founded in 1984 by Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, two business partners who had previously worked together on a failed LED sign business. After a decade of dabbling in various other technology projects, they turned their attention to the two-way communications systems that would become the foundation for the BlackBerry device.
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