Mark Wahlberg’s prodco working on new BlackBerry doc

Pledging to tell “the real BlackBerry story,” actor Mark Wahlberg’s non-scripted production company Unrealistic Ideas has teamed up with Toronto-based Viral Nation and filmmaker Eddie Schmidt “to tell the true inside story of the smartphone pioneers at BlackBerry,” according to a press release last week. “Fueled by exclusive access to the Research In Motion (BlackBerry) Alumni Association, which includes dozens of key executives from the earliest stages of the company, the film is the definitive look at the meteoric ascent and subsequent decline of the company told through interviews with the people who lived it and a wealth of never-before-seen behind...