Did you catch a glimpse of Jay Baruchel at Oakville’s 5 Drive-In this summer?
Published August 24, 2022 at 3:50 pm
A stop at Oakville’s drive-in was on the schedule this summer for comedian Jay Baruchel.
The popular Ottawa born actor, producer and director, who starred in the hit Knocked Up, was in town wrapping up shooting of the soon-to-be-released movie Blackberry.
While most of the movie was filmed in Hamilton, parts of it were also shot in other nearby areas including Oakville’s 5-Drive-In.
Baruchel plays Research In Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis in the feature-length movie that tells the story of the rise and fall of the popular device that took the cellular world by storm and was once affectionately known by its users as CrackBerry.
The movie, which also stars Always Sunny in Philadelphia cast member Glenn Howerton as Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie according to a representative for Canadian distributor Elevation Pictures, centres around the Waterloo, ON. technology company’s grip on the smartphone market before the arrival of Apple’s iPhone.
Blackberry is adapted from the non-fiction book Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry, written by Sean Silcoff and Jacquie McNish.
The film was directed by Matt Johnson, whose previous work includes The Dirties, Operation Avalanche and TV docu-comedy Nirvanna the Band the Show.
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Other cast members include Cary Elwes of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Saul Rubinek from True Romance and Michael Ironside from Total Recall.
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.
– With files from Canadian Press
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