I Love You Phillip Morris, an edgy comedy about a con man — played by Jim Carrey — who escapes from prison four times to reunite himself with his lover — played by Ewan McGregor — seems destined to hit every bump on the way to the big screen. The film had a tough time of it when trying to land a distributor, met with delays when it finally did, and now the film’s producers at EuropaCorp (a Luc Besson company) are suing Consolidated Pictures for failing to cough up the dough everyone agreed upon.
You’re free to read the legal developments as they have proceeded at ABC News, but suffice to say I Love You Phillip Morris has met another delay and won’t be released any sooner than October. Rulings so far have been in EuropaCorp’s favor, though there will be several months of arbitration and the studio seems to be shopping around for a new distributor on the side.
Devin favorably reviewed Phillip Morris at 2009’s Sundance, and I know I’ve been eager to see the directorial debut of the scribes behind Bad Santa. Stuffiness over the un-apologetically gay-themed story have hamstrung the release of this interesting looking film enough- it’s a shame legal bullshit is going to keep it out of release even longer.
Fingers crossed this doesn’t drag out and the film doesn’t get unceremoniously dumped like other long-gestating problematic releases of the past.
(via Dark Horizons)
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The bigotry is just pathetic. This is 2010! But then I remember we got Christian righties, teabaggers, and all sorts of morons. Pathetic.
The film isn't great anyway. Carey's performance is pretty excellent, but you aren't missing much.
Playing gay is the new retard.
Absolutely loved this movie. Very funny and actually quite sad. The UK dvd comes out in July, and it should have stuff that was cut when the directors were forced into their first post-Sundance editing to please the homophobes.
CPG have shown themselves to be really inept with the whole thing. The website had typos, they displayed no competency in getting word out about the film.
New Market is supposedly interested. Here's hoping.
I tried watching the movie, but it got to be too damn depressing. Black comedies usually don't sit well for me. I sit there and feel sorry for them.
Black comedies? You mean like Friday?
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