ENTERTAINMENT: “I Love You Phillip Morris”gets new release date FINALLY!

A new release date has finally been set for I Love You Phillip Morris which premiered to raves at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 but has been stuck in a distribution nightmare all year. Deadline Hollywood reports that the film will hit theaters on Dec. 3.

The film focuses on a love affair between a con man (Jim Carrey) and his cellmate (Ewan McGregor). Carrey’s character commits all kinds of crazy misdeeds, like breaking out of Texas prisons four times, to be with his lover.

The two lead actors have been quite enthusiastic about their gay roles.

McGregor told the Los Angeles Times last year that not only did he not mind kissing Carrey, he “quite liked it.”

“It’s a love story, an escape movie and a comedy, all about this man who goes to incredible lengths to be with the man he loves,” he says. “I like it because it’s a gay film, which is to say it’s a film about two men in love, and I think that’s an important element of it. But it’s not a film about them being gay. They just happen to be gay. I also got to French kiss Jim Carrey a lot, and I quite like that too.”