arrested by Iranian authorities after he had inquired about the status of two other detained Iranian directors. The government has now forced him to serve out a six-year jail sentence originally issued to Panahi in December 2010. At that time, he was banned for 20 years from directing movies, writing screenplays or giving any form of interview with an Iranian or foreign press, though he has since showcased other films such as “This Is Not a Film,” “Closed Curtain,” “Taxi” and “3 Faces” in defiance of his order and state-attempted censorship.
IFC Films Buys ‘BlackBerry’ Movie, About World’s First Smartphone (EXCLUSIVE)
08.09.2022 - 16:29 / variety.com
Manori Ravindran International Editor IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to “Operation Avalanche” director Matt Johnson’s new movie, “BlackBerry,” about the ill-fated smartphone that took the world by storm in the early 2000s. The highly anticipated film, which was first revealed by Variety last month, tells the story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the BlackBerry, and stars an ensemble cast including Jay Baruchel (“This Is the End”), Glenn Howerton (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) and Cary Elwes (“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning”). The pic will detail the operations of BlackBerry’s Canadian parent company Research in Motion, which was one of the country’s most illustrious and well-known tech companies before it floundered in legal disputes and eventually lost its market advantage to competitors such as Apple and Samsung. At the heart of the story is the business relationship between co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.
The cast also includes Saul Rubinek, Rich Sommer, Martin Donovan, Michael Ironside and director Johnson. IFC Films will release the film in 2023. “BlackBerry” is produced by Niv Fichman, Matthew Miller, Fraser Ash and Kevin Krikst. The pic is a Rhombus Media and Zapruder Films production, with the participation of Telefilm Canada and Ontario Creates, in association with CBC Films, IPR.VC and XYZ Films, who are also executive producing. Johnson and Miller adapted the screenplay from the bestselling 2015 nonfiction book “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry,” written by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, reporters for Canada’s national newspaper the Globe and Mail. Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films,
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16.09.2022 / 16:17
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16.09.2022 / 15:29
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Exclusive First Look At Park Chan-Wook’s New Thriller ‘Decision To Leave’
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14.09.2022 / 18:26
Exclusive: First Look At ‘Heartland’ Season 16
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14.09.2022 / 13:01
Lionsgate Pre-Buys UK Rights To Feature Romance ‘Late In Summer’ With Emily Watson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje & Harriet Walter
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